Tuesday, September 25, 2007

2007 09 25


About Chusok
Chusok is a great holiday of Korea. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Sometimes it comes on September or October. We wear traditional clothes. Those are called "Han - Bok". On Chusok we thank our ancestors for this year's blessings. Also during Chusok our whole families get together to celebrate the holiday.
Songpyun is one main food we prepare on Chusok.On Chusok night we can see a full moon. We give a wish to the full moon.



Happened
My mom woke me up at six in the morning. Our family had to get ready to go to grand parent’s house. The good thing is that most of people grand parent lives far away but our grand parent lives right next to our home so it takes only five minutes to get there. Therefore we don’t have to get ready for long time. At seven, we arrived to my grand parent’s home. I really wanted to go to sleep but my mom didn’t let me. Consequently I had to be awake and try hard to not go to sleep. We did a religious service. After we had breakfast and came back to home at about nine thirty. Right away I went to sleep and woke up at one. I had a rest for two hours and got ready to go to another grand parent’s home. In there we had dinner and I played with little sisters and brothers. They are younger than four years old. They were so cute and I really didn’t want to come back to home.

Feeling
In the morning I felt really tired. However in the afternoon when I met cousins, I felt happy. For one month I didn’t see them, so I missed them a lot. It was first time they were being enjoyable in front of me. They always stayed with there parents because they got shy but this time it was great.

Learned
My grand parents gave me money because it was Chusok. I didn’t really express how I am thank you for it. My mom said that I have to learn how to express. Therefore I tried to and I did it. I hugged them and said Thank you. Today I learned how to express my feeling.

2 comments:

Sae Jee Bang said...

I had to wake up early to go to grave... It's troublesome but we had to go because it's tradition. ohhhhhh. But I think it's good to gather with all family members^^

630::pm said...

Saejee It is so tired to wake up early.. oh, not much people came at chusuk.. Our cousins all went to trip :(