Student Holiday Traditions

Around this time of year, people often gather around with family for the holiday, sharing traditions that have developed over time. For example, in my house one of our holiday traditions is to take a family photo. We keep an album and, as the years pass by, we see how much we’ve changed.

Xavier Jenkins’s family has their own traditions. “We usually visit family in Berkeley and spend the holidays with them,” he said. “We go every year”. He also mentioned he enjoys seeing his cousins and spending a lot of time with them, since they don’t visit each other much during the year.

Decorating gingerbread houses with her siblings and spending family time together is one of the things that .Jennifer Gutierrez looks forward to every year. “I don’t spend as much time as I wish I did with [my family] since I’m always doing something,” she said. Other traditions in her household are getting together with her little brother to make cookies and leave them for Santa, since her little brother still believes. “I don’t know if it’s considered a tradition, but my parents and I go to Lake Tahoe every December with my uncles and aunts,” said Sandra Adame. Since she is an only child she doesn’t have any siblings to share common traditions with, but she does get to spend time with her cousin. ”We spend around five days in Tahoe and it’s fun, especially when my favorite cousin goes.”

Holiday traditions are not necessarily something big, like traveling or partying. They are often the little things that have the most meaning to you and your family. They might include something as simple as setting up the Christmas tree and decorating the house with Christmas lights. My three younger siblings help when we do this at our house and it’s a way to bond with them. Traditions like these are things we look forward to year after year.