Holiday Experience: What Makes Me Happy

Holidays

Nowadays, most of the people love holidays because it is an opportunity to have a break from routine life as well as helps to refresh oneself. After a holiday, we can go back to work or school with full energy. I love holidays too and I usually make the most of it.

During my holidays, I am free to do what makes me happy. I love my holidays because they detach me from my studies temporarily. I enjoy myself during the holiday since I usually spend my holidays watching my favorite movies or soap operas’ episodes which I missed during the semester. I also play games on my computer and compete with my friends online. I also have the time to help my mother for the housework.

Holidays also enable me to spend time with my family and cousins. I usually spend a weekend at his place and he comes for a weekend at my place. During those times, we go to the cinemas and I love those moments since I am a movie lover. When he comes to my place, we also play football in the playground behind my house. If we are too tired to play, we usually take the dog out for a walk but we make it a must not to spend a whole day at home. When I go to his place, his father usually takes us out for dinner in a restaurant.

Holidays are not always meant to have fun. It is also an opportunity to enhance our personality and to learn new things. My grand-parents are walking libraries. They have experienced life from the time where technology was a luxury. So, I make it a must to spend a week at least at their place. Grand-mother teaches me to cook delicious food while my grand-father usually play Scrabble or other mind games with me to help me improve my vocabulary.

Also, I am a nature-lover. I usually plan family outings or outings with friends to visit nature parks or spend a day at the seaside. We have our own camping tents and we are always ready for adventures. My friends and I usually go fishing and we bring along wood to make fire to cook the fish.

Indeed, holidays are the most awaited moment in everybody’s life. We can relax and spend the time enjoying. After all, life is not meant to work under stress and pressure all the time. We all deserve a break since we all work hard.

The Importacne of Doing What Makes You Happy

It all started when school started I was in 7th grade,12 years old. Loving dance and so energetic about the cool and fun dances i learned this summer. I also went to three different dance studios Xcape Dance Studio, Lehigh Valley Salsa Kids, & Asylum Dance Project. Xcape was starting to kinda fade, I was also starting to question dancing. But my young mom kept reminding me, if I wanted to open a dance studio for kids whose parents couldn’t afford it. That needed to keep pursuing my dance career and keep dancing and not give up on dancing.

I decided that I need to keep doing what I love doing so that I don’t make the same mistake again. Leaving my first dance studio i grew up with me leaving because I realized that it wasn’t meant for me to be there any longer.So I started pursuing my dream at Xcape Dance Studio. I love the dances I learned this summer. I want to show my dances to all of my friends, but after summer I felt empty because my hip hop teacher Ms. Portia left.

I was actually really excited to try out for junior company this year. Then there was the bad news that she was leaving. As I was going to register For Xcape. I was thinking about changing my mind, but then they told us that there was going to be company tryout. I was so relieved that they were going to be company tryouts. Then I realised that I would have to work even harder to get in this year. Actually show them that i want to be in company and do my very hardest.

But here’s my conflict, I also want to play basketball. But the thing was that I didn’t know what days the practices were. I really wanted to do basketball. I had gym teacher asking me if I was trying out for basketball or not. I would always say yes,but would always forget to ask when practices were. I would go home and tell my mom about gym and how we practiced basketball.she would always ask me did you ask them when practices were. I would say no but i will ask them next class. I would still forget to ask my gym teacher when practices were.

In my head I would always think that if I don’t ask my gym teacher i would never play basketball this year. So the next day I went to school ready to ask my gym teacher when the practices were to see if I had a conflict between dance and basketball. I get to school eager to ask my gym teacher. I ask my homeroom teacher if i could go ask my gym teacher a question. He said yes let me just write you a pass. So next thing you know I get my pass and start heading out the room.

I finally get to her room and ask her when tryouts and when practices were. She told me that the tryouts were going to be at the end of the month and practices were going to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I realized that I had a pretty busy schedule so it got me thinking. As I headed out the door I started thinking about what I was going to do. Something came into my head and I said i said to myself, what would i do i want to keep dancing i also want to play basketball basketball. The were to things that I really really wanted to do.

But then I realized that I had to do what I wanted to do. I realized that I had to follow my heart. I think that following my heart is doing what makes me happy. What makes me happy is dancing more than anything. But also doing whatIi think is following my heart is playing basketball. So what I tell all my friends now is to just follow your heart and do what you love to do. To never just give up on something that they really love to do. So always follow your heart.

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