12- Food, Family, And Culture

My family I would say is very Dominican we celebrate every holidays that are celebrate in our culture even though we live in the united states the only thing  we don't celebrate is the Dominican Independence Day we do celebrate it don’t get me wrong but not like they do it at D.R. In D.R they do a big festival they dress up and the artifact that they use is call “Diablo Cojuelo” on that day we go where the event take place, most of the time they do it at the park a lot of kids and people get dress up in some type of custom but the most famous one is the Diablo Cajuelo. 

Most of our holidays are related with food we don't celebrate 
thanksgiving on the same day that is celebrated here the New York we celebrated on December 24. On this day my mom don't usually do lunch or breakfast she buy us food apart because she spend the day cooking for the dinner my mom usually  do for dinner a lot of food she cook different type of meat and different type of food, food that she don't basically cook on  normal days. In D.R is very different from here we don’t have a tree with presents we do have a tree but we don't put  presents on it usually for us on that day is for us to give thanks to god for everything and to be in family. My family for example are christian and we have a strong belief and before we eat we read the bible and after we read we pray and give thanks. For us Christmas represents Jesus birth. We actually do something similar like for December 25 when they give out the gift kids in D.R get their gift but on January 6 we celebrate the three kings I remember that I used to leave cookies, milk and candy for Santa Claus so he can leave me my toys the last time I get toys was when I was 10 years old after that I come to New York and I realize that they don’t celebrate that here and I never celebrated again. This pictures are from last year I get it from my uncle in D.R.