Cultural+Bag-BenV

My Cultural Bag Ben V

My Cultural Bag is filled with memories, religion, laughs, and new beginnings that have approached during my 12 years of living. This has taught me to have perseverance, courage, knowledge and etc. School has helped improve my personality and my abundance of knowledge. This Cultural bag also tells the importance of family and friends.

In the summer of 2008 when we sadly separated from the lonely quiet town Sheridan, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado. That’s when I decided to get started on sports. I was inquisitive about what sport I should do in bright, breezy, sunny, Colorado. My Mom told me that there was a Gymnasium that I could play in over the hot scorching summer. I decided to try it for the fun of it because I had no friends and I could use my time wisely while I had the chance. I was there for a 2 long fatiguing hours, but I had an abundance of fun. That’s when I decided to do Gymnastics. I thought it could make me big and strong. I started in Level 1 in 2008, beginner, 2008-2009 was Level 2, but now I have accelerated to Level 4. Perseverance has slowly become apart of me just like a toddler learning how to walk; this is what the Pommel Horse represent.

My Dad is Christian and my Mom is Jewish so that means when I was born I was a mixture of both religions. I celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas so that’s double the fun, double the presents. When we celebrate Hanukkah our custom routine is almost every year I play a joyful game with my giddy game with my family called Dreydle. What you do is you spin a spinning top supposedly called a Dreydle, and then there is 4 symbols on each side of the Dreydle that represents something. You use money in the game and the symbols either tell you to take money away from someone else, lose a turn, receive money, or give 3 cents to someone else. My Mom makes delicious, scrumptious potato latkes, which is basically cooked flat potatoes with a heartwarming sensation to it. My Grandpa always brings Chocolate which is really called Gelt, and the taste of the chocolate tingles my taste buds as I crave it delightfully begging for more. When I celebrate Christmas every year I go to Florida to visit my 1st cousins to go happily celebrate with them. I at least have 11 family member coming to Florida with the rest of us, my cousins house is going to fill up like a water balloon. When my parents give me presents I feel like I’m lionized because we all get things that we had hoped to get. And that is what the Dreydle represents.

I had decided playing my Saxophone in 2009, and I have been playing it ever since. It was very challenging at first because I was a beginner and sadly my Saxophone was damaged, it felt like a part of me was lost on an Island because I admired it so very much. I tried to extricate from my emotions and feelings because I was sad, but then thankfully it got fixed as fast as a cheetah could run. I had perseverance and courage in my heart and I knew I could do it, and from following that method I got better grades and I became better at playing it. I’m now in Middle School and I’m currently in 3rd chair which is one of the best out of 7 Saxophone players. I will never stop trying to be the best I can be.

My family laughs so much you have no idea, we laugh an abundance of times no matter if its funny or not. We will never, ever diminish our laughing because it makes us feel happy. As for me laughing makes me smile a lot at school. I have a very contagious laugh, and a loud one too. My friends Zack and Eric think I laugh too much and that I have a laughing problem, but I think I just think everything is funny, its not a big problem. I have been laughing all the time since I was just 5 years old, my friends at school would laugh with me in unison and I would enjoy that they like to laugh too, that is what the smile represents.

Rocky Heights Middle School has as well made me smarter, and has increased my powerful knowledge. I really like to learn