How
did you guys celebrate your Chuseok
Class 1-1
Hello everyone. I'm Hee-sang. Nice to meet you. I will tell you how my family celebrated Chuseok.
When it is Chuseok, first, my family
goes to our home town taking with us a gift set for our relatives.
For other families, it takes a long time to go
their home town because of the traffic jam.
But in my case, my relatives’ home is not far, so
I don't experience the traffic jam and I am able to go to my relatives’ home
easily. After meeting our relatives,
we griddle Korean pancakes, ie. Buchimgae, for our ancestral rites.
It is a very hard work among a lot of things because it takes a long time. So I
hate this part and I try avoid griddling Buchimgae every Chuseok season
but I always fail to escape from it, sadly. After cooking, we get together and we have a memorial service for our
ancestors. I see ancestral rites every year. It feels so serious but until now,
I still have not adapted to working during Chuseok.
After that, the important work ends. We
get together in the living room to have a seat and take a rest. We tell each
other how we have been in the meantime, watch Chuseok special
TV programs and play a game of Yut with the children. Adults
watch the game and cheer for the children. Three or four years ago, I also
enjoyed the game of Yut, but now that I have become an adult, I
just watch and cheer for them
Finally, at night, it’s time to go home.
We bow to my grandmother and grandfather and return home. This may not be a
grand thing, but is my family's Chuseok tradition and I like it.
By - Cho Hee
