Holiday

 In this week, four classes were cancelled oddly. After my Thursday morning class was over, my holiday was begun. There is no connection between my holiday and Korea’s big holiday, however, this blessed holiday reminds me our big holiday which called Chu-Seok.

 Mostly, Chu-Seok is on September and my family and I goes to my grandmother and grandfather’s house to make sacrifices to our ancestors or just visit and say hi to relatives. Children are playing, sleeping and watching TV. Men including my father are doing nothing seriously. At this point, maybe you guys are wondering what women do. As most of people expected, women are making food for meals even 3 or 4 days before. I’ve seen my mom over 20 years who is suffering from making food for the holiday. There are some specific foods that we need to prepare for and it is really annoying work. Even if we made the food and took this food to grandfather’s house, it’s not over. Moms have to remake it and decorate the food to make it more beautiful. After the sacrifice is over, while dads are playing card game, moms have to prepare lunch for them and after their meal is over, they have a meal with left over.

 This is our traditional way how we spend our holidays and what men and women do. As I am a girl and over 20, when I go to grandfather’s home, I do work. However, my brother doesn’t do anything like other fathers. He goes to somewhere to play games or watch TV. If one of girls says “why they don’t do anything?” my grandfather said “Because they are men”. After our holiday is over, my friends and I talk about what we do during the holiday and why do we have to suffer from housework, not men. In this year, I was not in Korea so I don’t have to do work but… I will do these stupid house chores for my life for sure. I can’t say this thing in front of our family, so I wrote in the blog. YEI!!!!!!!!