Everybody Hates GreG

After watching an episode of Everybody Hates Chris a few weeks ago on TV (I think it was the episode title: "Everybody Hates Thanksgiving"). A few parts in that episode started to remind of things that happened to me while I was growing up. Now my family wasn't poor by any means, both parents had full time jobs and pulled in decent money, and there was never a time where we had to struggle to find money in order to have that night's dinner. However, families around the neighborhood and even the local church would drop off toys and food during the Thanksgiving holiday and Christmas holiday. My parents, took it for Christian kindness, however I took it for as any adolescent kid would, free food and free toys. For the kid who was about to get a SNES under his Christmas tree, getting a Monopoly board game or some other game, just meant one less gift my parents would have to worry about. Luckily, I can say that those rare times I was the ONLY black kid in my middle school/ high school class that the teacher did not launch into a rant about how the class should be sensitive to my cultural background and celebrate Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa wouldn't even apply to me since I am first generation American and my parents were born and raised in Haiti. Shoot, I didn't even know how Kwanzaas is celebrated, only that it deals with colored candles and somehow looks like Menorah...but no dreidel involved though.

Well that's it for now!

On one last note, it was a year ago I had first attempted to create a blog. Let's just say I didn't keep up with the blog entries or the upkeep of the page. I do remember that my first blog entry was about how I was deciding to take the year off from studying the GREs and Graduate school application to relax and enjoy myself, and 2006 has not yet disappointed me yet. I wonder what 2007 has in stored...guess time will tell.

Until next time,