My Thanksgiving Break

My Thanksgiving break was a good start. I slept in on Wednesday and got to talk to the one person I love to talk to the most, Nathan. On Thanksgiving day, Thursday, we went to my church to set up the food and decorations for the Thanksgiving feast that we were having. There was so much food and all of us ate a lot, but the good thing is there was still left overs for us to take home. After the Thanksgiving feast we had at church, we went to the Hmong New Year. The Hmong New Year occurs every Thanksgiving break. Thursday-Sunday. Thursday evening we went and just walked around to see what they had in store this year. After the walking around we helped my church set up a booth that was sponsored. Our church booth was there to encourage other Hmong people to come to our church and learn the word of the Bible. After the Hmong New Year, we went to my house to chill and watch movies and eat some leftovers. The next day we went to the Hmong New Year again because we had to help make balloons and pass out flyers about our church and about the word of God. After that we chilled and walked around to explore more of the New Year, we ate really good food and enjoyed the hot weather that we did not think we were going to have. After the New Year I went to work to experience a slow day at work. The next day we went again to the Hmong New Year, this time we dressed in our traditional Hmong clothes and walked around all day and ate really good food. After that I went to work again to experience another slow day. Sunday came along and it was fairly good. I went to church and had dance and then off to work again. It was better at the time but as a memory it was not that great and exciting but to me it was.

My First Job

I recently got a job at Burger King as cashier. It's my first job so I do not know whats a good job and what a bad job is. But the first day I actually worked, I watched several 5-45 minute long videos about greeting people, sanitary directions, and a lot more. I watched for videos for at least 5 days before I actually got to work. The first day I worked, they made a person who just started working a week ago, train me. She was just as new but she told me she had worked several other fast food jobs as well. So that made it easier for her. I did not know what to really do, I just put fries into their cartons and bagged some burgers and nuggets. That is all I did my first day, it was not anything too hard. I later helped clean the diner with my trainer and we got done with things very quickly. It was nice having someone to help, but I felt as if I was so unprepared or my next time at work. The next time I worked, they already put me by myself at the front line. I was so nervous, and I usually never get nervous. They gave me a cash drawer and told me it had to have exactly 125. So once I got my drawer into the cashier, I began taking several orders. It was pretty difficult and I was nervous about everything. I did not know the cashier board very well and it was hard to quickly find the right sandwiches. It went on like this for several days, but I think I have gotten better. It's only been my 3rd week and I think I got the hand of most things. They just recently started training me on drive-thru as I do front line so I hope I can be more useful and do drive-thru and front line soon enough.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 6 (my opinion, review/summary)

In this chapter you learn everything about Jay Gatsby. "James Gatz-that was really, or at least legally, his name." (104) He was playing around the beach when he was around seventeen and because of this he met Dan Cody. "He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career-" (104) "who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour." (104) "The Truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself-his father's business, the service of vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty." Basically, James aka Jay saved Dan Cody and that James aka Jay is not really who he said he was. Dan Cody appreciated Gatsby very much because he employed Jay to many jobs. "He was employed in a vague personal capacity-while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor- the arrangement lasted five years." (106) In the beginning Gatsby tells Nick he inherited money from his rich dead family. "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money" (70) but the truth is he inherited it from Dan Cody. "-it was Cody that he inherited money-a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars"(107) But this only informed into the chapter 6 because "but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even fairly true." (107) next after him explaining all of that, Nick went over to Gatsby's house and there were "They were a party of three on horseback-Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty woman in a brown riding habit who had been there previously" (107)