Journal Question #7

Here's a topic most of you will like: shopping. This is a photograph of people entering a store on "Black Friday," the busiest shopping day of the year in America. This year, some stores opened at midnight or early in the morning, offering sales and discounts and special deals. From now until Christmas, the stores will be very busy, as people buy Christmas presents and stores are open longer than normal. Did you go shopping the day after Thanksgiving? Was it crazy? Will you go shopping in the next few weeks? Do you like the kind of scene pictured above? Tell me about you shopping habits.

Journal Question #6

The Thanksgiving feast pictured above is a famous painting by the American artist Norman Rockwell, who made idealized scenes of American life. Here you have the happy family, sitting at a beautiful table full of typical Thanksgiving food (including a large Turkey), headed by the eldest of the family - grandmother has cooked the Turkey; grandfather will carve it. It is the archetypal "American Thanksgiving." Do you plan on participating at a traditional American Thanksgiving on the 24th? Do you look forward to it? How about traditions - especially traditional feasts - in your country? What might a painting of that tradition look like?