Monday, December 2, 2013
Journal Question #7
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Sunlight is a precious commodity this time of year: there isn't much of it. It's no accident that Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and other religious celebrations happen in December. This is when the winter solstice occurs (December 21), meaning that, beginning on the 21st, we will see just a little more sunlight each day. How important is the sunlight to you? Do you dislike this time of year, when it is dark so much? Will you celebrate the winter solstice?
Followers
Blog Archive
About Me
- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI was not concerned about whether the night falls until I got here. The weather in Saco is much colder than my hometown. The temperature is around 0 Celsius degrees. Meanwhile, Shanghai’s present temperature is only 10 Celsius degrees. Wind here in the dark seems to get more fiercely. I love sunlight at instant.
ReplyDeleteI really do not appreciate this time of year. I think coldness is adequate for winter, but night falling so quick is not acceptable. Not to mention the darkness. When it’s four thirty, the whole sky has been covered with a layer of black. In my memory, the sun still hangs in the sky in Shanghai. In the tradition of China, winter solstice is a festival to commemorate ancestor. And generally kids are asked not to get home so late. Since it is not a big festival, I think I will spend it as a usual day.
In China, people eat dumpling soup on this day; while residents of some other places eat dumplings, saying doing so will keep them from frost in the upcoming winter. But in parts of South China, the whole family will get together to have a meal made of red-bean and glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and other evil things. In other places, people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour. The Winter Solstice rice dumplings could be used as sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts for friends and relatives. The Taiwan people even keep the custom of offering nine-layer cakes to their ancestors. They make cakes in the shape of chicken, duck, tortoise, pig, cow or sheep with glutinous rice flour and steam them on different layers of a pot. These animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese tradition. People of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral temples to worship their ancestors in age order. After the sacrificial ceremony, there is always a grand banquet.
ReplyDeleteJerry - Please tell me about yourself. This sounds like it comes from a textbook. I won't give you credit for this post until you write it yourself! (no copying)
DeleteNo doubt, sunlight is very important for me. I can't live without the sun. I am used to seeing the sun in the morning. If I can't see that, my mood will be very down all day. When I see the sun every time, I usually feel happy and it seems to all the worries missing. I really like the light but my roommate likes dark. She always turns off all the lights and talks with her friends on the macbook. At the first, I can accept. Afterwards, I can't tolerate. I'm very tired after classes. I walk to my room. But I see all the dark without any light. This makes me upset. I think the sun represents hope. I have hope so I will go for I want. It gives me power. All in all, sunlight is so important for me. I hate dark. I won't celebrate the winter solstice. When I was in China, my family never celebrated it . So I don't have habit to do this although I love the sunlight very much. We just know that day is winter solstice. Maybe I will celebrate winter solstice this year to be into American culture.
ReplyDeleteAs the Earth revolution, in the particular period, Earth will get farther away from the sun, therefore the sunlight becomes less powerful when it reaches the earth. In other words, winter comes into being cause sunlight becomes weaker at that time.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt sunlight is very important to everyone, I am no the exception. I love sunlight because it gives me a lot of warmth. Thus, in the past I used to detest winter very much, because it was a season that was filled with coldness, has just little sunlight. And plus, the dusk comes rather quickly. Even in the early afternoon, the sky here will darken in a minute all of a sudden with the stars coming out.
As for my past, my family seldom celebrated the winter solstice, but in some places in China, the people will get family gathering and worships on that day.
I like winter solstice, because I like Sunlight. Winter solstice means the days will be longer and the weather will be warm. I like longer days and warm weather, because I can do more exercise and feel more comfortable. Sunlight is important for me, I don’t like dark, it make me feel no energy.
ReplyDeleteThe sunlight is important to everyone who live on the Earth. We can get the lighting and power from the sun. I like the night longer then the daytime, because I can watch the Moon early. The Winter solstice occur just a phenomenon, during the this time of the year I know the sunlight focus on the southern Hemisphere , then the temperature will become lower. Chinese people have a 2500 years history of the Winter solstice day's celebration, in this day family reunion then eat dumplings and worship to the buddha in China. There is a folk legend says that if you eat hot food during the Winter solstice day, then you will not feel cold during that winter. That is the celebration of the Winter solstice.
ReplyDeleteSunlight makes me easy. I enjoy reading and drinking beverage in the sun. So I prefer daytime longer than night. The sunlight in winter is warm and soft, not so hot. So the sunlight in winter is one of favorite things in winter. Before I come to America, in winter, I always help my mother to wash some clothes in balcony, after done the house work I always sit in balcony and drink hot tea. I think the sunlight can kill bacterias in my clothes or skin. When I go out in a sunny day, I will be in a good mood. On the contrary, the night in winter is darker longer. When I go for dinner, it has been really dark outside. After dinner, I have to go back dorm, because it's too cold, I can't hang out this cold dark. So the dark even make be bored. In winter solstice, the daytime is the shortest in a year, and night is longest. And it's a traditional festival in my country. Families will reunion at this long night, and have a big meal. At this night people always have Tangyuan.
ReplyDeleteIn general, sunlight is important to us for physical and psychological health. But for me, I don't like sunlight. Sunlight makes me feel bad. It will makes me too warm, hard to see things, even makes me sick. When I have eyestrain, sunlight will make me feel pain in my eyes. Also, if we in the space, sunlight will hurts us. Sun’s ultraviolet rays are too strong for human. We rely on atmosphere to live on this planet. In China, we don’t celebrate the winter religious solstice. Maybe because China is a developing country. We have to work harder and harder to catch up the developed countries. So we don’t have the time to celebrate this important day. Even in my mind, I still don't know how this day is important to people. But I think I have plenty of time to figure out it.
ReplyDeletei love when there is a little bit of sun and not too much. i come from a country where its always the same through the whole year but not really the sun goes at least 30 minutes earlier and it rains instead of snow so i dont really like this whether cause its too cold for me. we never celebrates winter in my country but we do celebrates christmas and new year cause a lot of people in my country are christians.
ReplyDeleteI do like the sunlight because it brings us energy and gives us a bright world.To human,it's one of the indispensable parts to our life.As it's much more colder here than my hometown,it's necessary to me to have much more sunlight.I won't celebrate the winter solstice because its just a common appearance like windy,sunny and rainy. I will treat the day like every day I have now.
ReplyDeleteFrom Lee:
ReplyDeleteI love this time of the year I love the sunlight because I think sunlight means the life. There have some reason to explain my idea. First of all, I love the spring, and this day means the spring id coming, it can make people feel warm in the cold winter, if you look carefully you also can see some small bud hide between two branches, seems like the bud is telling you “spring is coming” Second reason is this day make me feel alive, you can feel much more sunlight in this day than yesterday, like some in movie you will feel god love you, he will start give you sunlight from this day, you won’t feel this is a dark and cold work, because the sunlight come back. Last but not least, I will celebrate in this day, because I love spring I love sunlight I love hope I love god. LIHUA.YANG
I like sunlight but I don’t think sunlight would affect me much. Without sunlight, plants and animals could hardly live. Also sunlight could affect a person’s mood. Some people will feel bad and sad without sunlight, some will not. I will feel relax and happy when the sunlight is on me, and I won’t feel sad when there’s only a little more sunlight each day. In China, people sometimes celebrate the winter solstice, but almost people would still work very hard for support their family. At spring festival, People would stay with their family and eat dumplings. This time, people are very happy and relax. They don’t care if the sunlight is a little or many. They just care about their family and, every one will enjoy their live with their family these days.
ReplyDeleteSunlight is important for me. I would like the days stay more longer. It’s seems days past through so fast when its turning dark in the evening. I would like to enjoy the sunlight during winter time. Sun light is important because some technology get energy from the sun. Human need sunlight because it is the fuel of lift and we can get the vitamin D from the sunlight. Also, sunlight can cheer me up, every morning when the sunlight woke me up, I felt happy and its mean a newdays start again. I dislike this time of year, cause the sky dark too fast, it make me feel uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, sunlight is important to me or everything else. People can’t live in a situation without sunshine even we have neon lights since sunlight makes chemical reaction. Such as cats lick their hair; plants growing and so no. I know the area like Alaska. It turns daily for whole day or night for whole day. I can’t stand that. I am going to be upset if I stay there for over 5 days. As for winter solstice, we do have habit to celebrate it but just in the north of China. According to legend of old China, a frozen cold winter made peoples’ ears became fester. A doctor had traveled there and told people to buy the herbs he listed and mixed with mean, vegetables and seasonings, then use flour wrapper covered and make up like ears it will solve the problem about the ears. Therefor we keeping that traditional habit still now even we don’t have the fester ears.
ReplyDeleteSunlight is really a nice thing, when it is summer, when the sunshine on my body,i just feel pretty comfortable, it will makes me feel like i am taking shower and it can weak you up if you feel sleepy. For me, there are many great memory about sunlight. I had played with the shadow which made by sunlight, i had lied on a beautiful beach which covered with sunlight, and there are many good memory like that and that why i love sunlight so much. The winter at Maine is really cold, if there are some sunlights, people can feel much more warm than the cloudy day, it just feels like there is a little hope right in front of you, though you feel cold, you can see the sunlight cover your body, you know, you will get better after suffer this cold weather. I will celebrate the winter, though it is hardly to see some sunlight, but I know I will enjoy it after i suffer the winter time.
ReplyDeleteSunlight is very important to me, because if there is no sunshine I won’t have anyway to live. Sometimes, sunlight more like a symbol of hope, because we all know when sunrise come the new day will begin everything can start all over again. Stand in the sun, you will feel the warm of sunshine, and dispel all the darkness in your heart.
ReplyDeleteI’m not don't like this season of the year, because although I like the sunshine but that doesn't mean I don't like the dark. Because the darkness can makes people quiet, and can makes people think deeply.
I won't celebrate the winter solstice, because we don't have this tradition. But I'll look forward to the New Year, every year for us they all is a big change. I'm looking forward to the next year, at the same time I also miss the past.
I think the sunlight is probably the one of the top 5 most important things to me, first of all I enjoy being in somewhere bright and warm, that’ s what sunshine could bring me. And also from the aspect of biology, apparently we can’t live without sunshine since it helps plants make oxygen and the oxygen is what keep us alive. I don’t really dislike the time of this year since the little difference of day time doesn’t really effect me at all. I still get to get up in the morning and go to bed at the night around the same time. Oh, obviously the midnight is the darkest time everyday. I think I won’t celebrate for the winter solstice because there is no extra day off for that.
ReplyDeleteFrom Jacob:
ReplyDeleteI always was attracted by sunlight. Sunlight is not only the view of the picture but also it is a kind of hope and belief, never abandon in the soup. For example, Beethoven who is a famous musician in the world said sunlight is my throat, even though I am blind I can’t lack it. So is this firm belief like the ray of the sunshine to him? Of course, it is !
However, sunlight tell me: you never are defeated if you suffer everything, and just smile at life. I remember that after raining we had a exam, and I was full of confidence and got into the examination room.
But I failed in exam. I just walked out the classroom when I was sad. Suddenly I felt like the thousand of arrow are shooting me, and let me is full of the energy.
Because that is sunlight which like arrow. I think that how can’t you see the sunlight after the raining!!
Sunlight always cheers me up. I think sunlight represents hope, happiness, and energy. When it's sunny outside, I always feel happy and energetic. On the other hand, when it's dark outside, I always feel depressed and tired. It's winter in Maine now, and I don't feel energetic as in the summer because it's just a little bit of sunlight in the winter. I really hope the spring will come soon because I don't like winter, and I want more sunlight. Sunlight is very important to our lives, if the sunlight disappears from this world, everyone will die.
ReplyDeleteSunlight is very nice, i think when is summer , the sunshine on my body feel very comfortable,For me sunlight it not very important , because I sunlight is not important in Latvia. This time of the year I like, because it winter and I like when is dark then I want go sleep. I will celebrate the winter , becsuse I like winter. Winter is the best time of the year.
ReplyDeleteOf course I like sunlight, everybody like sunlight including you! Is that's right Mr.Griffin! I think sunlight it's important for human! Do you know why? If don't have sunlight we don't have foods too! Do you know why? animals and plants need sunlight! If don't have they will be died! If we don't have foods we will hungry, If hungry we will be died too! I like winter, because the weather is very cool! and we can make snowman in the winter. But in the winter sunlight time will be shorter than sprint time. Also I like sunlight too! so, I don't care. I think just normal is best for me. I don't want to discuss it because we live on the earth. so, we don't need care about sunlight cause If have sun we must have sunlight!
ReplyDeletefrom Mimi:
ReplyDeleteSunlight is very important for me because I need sunlight
in my daily life. I need sunlight to grow up, give me energy
and help in with my health. Without sunlight we can’t live. I
like this time of year because it’s very interesting, dark is so
mysterious, makes me want to have a adventure. I like both
bright and dark, they’re all have something that I interested
in. but we don’t celebrate winter solstice, because it’s not
a festival, but some people remember this day because it’s
important for them. Although I don’t celebrate it, I’m interested
about it, and both sunlight and dark are important for me.
When I hear sunlight the word, I will feel very warm and sweet. So, in my opinion, sunlight is really significant. Sometime I will imagine myself sitting at a window table and bathed in sunlight, I think it is a very good time to make myself to relax a little. During this time, I always can see some beautiful things to come to my mind.
ReplyDeleteBeginning on the 21st, we will see just a little more sunlight each day, in my hometown, we have to eat meat on the 21st,I don’t know why, but I think it is a celebration to welcome the sunlight which becomes a little more each day.
I neither like nor dislike the time of a year, I think this is a natural phenomenon, so I think it’s fine. I will celebrate the winter solstice, because it is a good phenomenon, and it can have a good time to have a dinner with my parents and my grandmother on this day.
I am OK with this. To me, sunlight can give me energy, and wake me up,but sometimes it is too bright to me. I prefer night in fact. The moon is bright,but it won't hurt my eyes. In the night, I can be more focused. However, if I have to live without sunlight, I think I can't accept. Sunlight is a symbol of power and hope, without sunlight the trees can't grow up, and the flowers can't bloom. Everything in the world can't live if they do not have power, and the sunlight is the most important part of power.
ReplyDeleteThe winter is coming, and I am happy with this because I like winter. One of the reason is that I love snow. When it is snowing, the whole world will become white and beautiful. In the afternoon,I look through the window, and I will see a little bit sunlight on the snow, just like the diamonds. That scene always make me become relax. I like having tea or coffee, and maybe some more cookies in such an afternoon.
Winter is a great season, and sunlight is the thing which everything can't live without. Let's enjoy winter!
Sunlight for me, just like the moisturizer of life. There can be, there can not be. Because I always feel the sunshine will expose too many shortcomings, I would like to have a bit of little secret in the dark. A rare sunshine will have a good mood, so I like this season, and it began to snow, snow in my hometown is not common, so I like winter solstice! December makes me happy!
ReplyDeletei love the sunlight when the winter is coming, because sunlight makes me warm. i like to sit on the ground and enjoy the sunlight with my friends. i enjoy the every time when sunlight irradiate on me. it makes me getting more energy. for here, every winter is going to snow for couple days, and if sunlight is coming after the snowing, the scenery is become beautiful, everywhere is like crystal clear where has snow on it. anyway, i love sunlight for real, for any reasons.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the sunlight is very important to me, but I'm not really like it because in my country, there is so sunny throughout the year. It's so hot and sometime it makes me feel uncomfortable. Despite not really like the sunlight, but I can't deny that it's very important to the human life. For example, If the Earth without the sunlight, it will be colder, animals and plants can't live and grow up, especially is the human. They will be weak and ill , they can't live and do anything without the sunlight.
ReplyDeleteI love the dark when the winter is coming. When I was a child. I’m always afraid about the dark because I always think there are ghosts in the Earth. But as I grow up, I like the dark most. Because I can always enjoy the night. The dark night can make me calm and makes me think about something. Dark Is always very peace.
ReplyDeleteI like sunlight. it is very warm. I like sun shining on my body. It is very nice thing to do in the cold and windy wither. It is very enjoy. So I like sun-time. Sun can bring us positive energy. With sun, we can live happy and study better. With sunlight, I feel very happy. Althong I like wihter, but I like warm-time better. Sun can cheer us up, and I can be more positive to face the problem, with sun I have confidence. I like sunlight, so I dislike this time, and I wont celebrate this time
ReplyDeleteI don't like the sunlight, I like the dark better.I can't see in the dark, but I like the dark! Every time when people hear the dark them always think of something like vampire or werewolf. But in my mind the dark is very nice, it is a very quiet time to everyone when the dark come, you have the enough time to doing want you want and to think of your life like what I did that night. I do not think I will celebrate the winter solstice.
ReplyDeleteI like dark better. But sunlight is definitely vital to live. Without sunlight we are going to lose our health. especially mentally we will get depression easily. Sunlight makes us feel fresh, and soft, also it kills bacteria apart from these things sunlight gives us various benefits
ReplyDeleteTrees won’t grow without sunlight, birds won’t sing without sunlight, there will no longer be four seasons and we all have to live in the darkness, just picturing that makes me believing sunlight is the most important thing to me, and apparently I think that is a absolute requirement for the basic surviving. But I don’t mind this time of year when it’s dark out for most part of a day, since I can still enjoy the sunshine at the day even the time won’t be that long, just like Shelley said, if Winter comes, can Spring be behind? so who cares about stand it for a little while, we will get through it. The last thing is, even though I will probably be very happy at the Winter Solstice, but I won’t celebrate for it. It’s not really a big holiday and I am not really a party guy, so most likely I will just rest for a whole day in my bedroom.
ReplyDeleteSunlight is very important for me. We can’t live without the sun. Previously, I used to climb the mountain with my dad to see the sunrise or the sunset. It is really beautiful. When I saw the sun in the top of the mountain, I always felt it to be melted away. Although I like sun, I still like dark. Also I not really dislike this time of year, when it is dark so much. If the sky isn’t dark enough, you can’t see so many stars shiny in the sky. Like Hong Kong’s night, so beautiful, but called off not so beautiful night without darkness. In China, I think not all of the Chinese will celebrate winter solstice. In my family, I remember my grandma will celebrate the winter solstice. Also we have a big meal for this day.
ReplyDeletei love the sun and thats why i just love more the summer than the winter , winter is so fun cause you can play with the snow , ski , skate and a lot of things i like it and i like stay in a house so warm while you are wacthing the snow falling . i prefer the summer but i still like the winter , longer nights , magic things , presents, be with your family , hope and a lots of things that you dont have the rest of the year.i will celebrate the winter solstice . i love see the sunset and i love see the stars too , i cannot decide between them they are so pretty i love the summer but is not good enought to compare to the summer.
ReplyDeleteI love sunlight, it always bring warm. it is cold in Maine in winter. And i always fell tired without sunlight, everything need sunlight, it just like a beautiful flower which is blooming. I'd like to go to school with sunlight, the mood will be good because of the sunlight. In winter, the sunlight is less than in summer, and it happens now, it it dark out side at 4 pm. and at that time, i always sleep. i love sunlight.
ReplyDeleteFrom Kenny:
ReplyDeleteThe sunlight is really important to me. Without sunlight the entire organisms are
not able to live on earth included human being. I don’t like this period of time because
the daytime is too short. It is too hard for us to get up in the morning if we see it’s still
dark outside. It will be totally dark at around four o’clock, so that means we cannot
do any outside excises. The winter solstice is an important in China, which means the
beginning of the winter. I heard about the winter solstice a lot, but we never celebrate in
my family.
I don't like winter because it is so cold. I like sunlight, it makes me warm. I remember on winter solstice. My family will eat dumplings. After the winter solstice, the new year will come. The weather is colder and colder. My hometown has the same temperature here. In winter, sunlight is very short. The time we can stay outside is shorter. I always stay at home. I don't like darkness because I cannot see things clearly. We have to come back home earlier than in summer. However, we have many festivals in winter. We also have snow in winter. I don't like winter but it is a good time.
ReplyDeleteActually i don't care how much sun i need but i wanna see sun light more than darkness. It makes me depressive. So i prefer summer days. Also winter means days are shorter than normal. Thats the other thing that i don't like. In the other hand winter means snow and i like snow. Also i like snow sports like skiing. I go skiing nearly every winter. Also i hate hot. So cold could be good for me sometimes. Despite everything i prefer summer. I prefer long days. I prefer swimming all day. I prefer sweet summer nights.
ReplyDeleteI think we need more sunlight because if there is no sunlight you cannot do anything, you cannot play soccer, you cannot hang out outside. You gotta stay on home or dorm, because with this cold and with those short days you cannot do anything. In Spain the sunlight stays until 6 on winter, and 9 or 10 in the rest of the year, this is why is so much different for me.
ReplyDeleteSo I prefer have more sunlight than those days.
Thanks, everyone, for your comments about sunlight and this dark time of year. Some of you much prefer the sun and warmth of the summer, while others like the dark for a variety of reasons, such as the opportunity to reflect on life. Interesting thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI think I don’t like the time of year because it is really dark so much. Dark makes people become lazy and negative, and weather becomes colder because of long dark time. I think sunlight is very important for me because sunlight can motivate me to study and play sports hard and positively. I think I will celebrate these interesting festivals because I will spend my vacation time with these location American family, and I think I can study a lot of special custom from my vacation family! Overall, I don’t like the winter solstice very much, and I think the most reasons are their long dark time!
ReplyDeleteFrom Christina:
ReplyDeleteI think sunlight is important to me. I always want to see sunlight more than darkness. I can not in a good mood without sun during the day. I like this time of year, because I was born in winter, and after December 21, I can see sunlight more and more.Also, the weather will be warmer. So I can go out with friends and starts doing some sports. Although I love this day, in China, we don't celebrate winter solstice. But lots of people still love winter solstice and feel exciting when that day is coming. So I will enjoy this winter and sunlight!
Sunlight is important for me, because sunlight makes me feel warmer and my body needs sunlight. I like sunlight and i don't like darkness because darkness makes me feel cold and lazy. I wont celebrate the winter solstice because I love to see the sun. Without the sun everything on earth will become dead.
ReplyDeletei love sunshine, my feeling always following the sunshine, thats why i'm down and tired in the rain or night. so I hate winter, winter makes me sick.
ReplyDeletetoday,the sunset at 4:30, then i just want to go sleeping. Dark just like a devil take away all my energy, and cold come after sunset.That's why i wont celebrate the winter solstice but i'm sure i will celebrate summer solstice!
from Sherry:
ReplyDeleteSunlight is very important to everything in the world. If there is no sunlight everything will be die. I like sunlight, it can make me happiness and sunny. In winter there is not too much sunlight in a day. But I still like the day does not have too much sunlight. Because in the night I can feel calm and comfortable. So I like both of them, dark and sunlight.
I love the sunlight, it really feels pretty comfortable when the sunlight on me, it feels warm and soft, and it is just fells like my mom's hand is massaging me, nice and gentle. Before, when I was at China, i love the sunlight during winter time, because it can help us get warm but since I came to USA, I do not really like the sunlight, especially during the winter time. In the winter time, every time the sunlight appear, the snow or begin to fuse and in the second day the ice is everywhere, i may fall down for 4 or 5 times just the way I went to school!! That is really bad! I am not don't like the sunlight, I just dislike what will happen after that,cause the ice is everywhere after the sunlight. It should be the hope, nut now for me, it is a bane. But after all, I still love the sunlight, i just do not wish it happen during the winter time.
ReplyDeleteI like sunlight, and sunlight can give me energy to do my things. Winter is coming, and the sun leave more and more early. When it is 5 or 6 o'clock, the sky become black. It make me hard to walk on the ground. The most important thins is when I see the sky is dark, I will want to go to the bed and sleep. I am npt happy when this time of the year. Cold and dark make me very lazy, I can't study or do something else like before.
ReplyDeleteI prefer dark than sunlight. Although when I in the dark place, I can't see anything, but I think sometimes it's quite good.
ReplyDeleteI like walk on the street along during the night . that makes me feel good.
At the time of the night. The brain is very clear. You know what you want to do. Use this time to learning is best. I like in dark environment do my own things. I don't want any body bother me.
Plants and animals can't survive without sunlight. I don't like the sunlight but the sun is very important for nature.
I like sunlight, so I really don't like this period of the year. The sunlight keeps me warm, I just really don't like the cold temperature. And on the other hand, every afternoon, when the sun goes down, it makes me feel sleepy. And a very interesting thing is in China we also celebrate ( actually we don't consider it as a festival, but we still will do something about it) solstice. We call it the coldest day of the year. Every different province has their special local traditions to celebrate it. In my province people eat the lamb pot, it is really delicious though. But most provinces eat dumplings. Well, I still hope warmer days can come as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe sun is very important for me. When I feel very cold, the sun will let me feel warm. The saco weather is smilier with my hometown. So I'm in the saco feel comfortable! sometimes I feel so cold. I miss my home, but the sun will give me wish. Let me in not feel alone.
ReplyDeleteIn dark dark days I feel bored because sun gives energy to our body and brain. I love snowy days of winter, but dark days are the worst part of it for me. Sunlight is very important thing in our life. It can kill some bacterias in our body. But too much sunlight can kill you also.
ReplyDeletefrom Peter:
ReplyDeleteI like long day better, because I don’t cold weather. When the days are short the weather always be cold and it will always has rain or snow. My hometown is very cold in the winter. It always be about 30 below zero, so it is very cool and it is more colder than here. When the days are long the weather always be warm and it will be always sunny. I don’t like wearing a lot that is the other reason. That is why I like long days.