Reba McEntire Winterland Tour 1992 T Shirt

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A few weeks ago, on a flight from Kigali to Addis-Ababa, I sat by a Chinese student who had been in Rwanda for about a Reba McEntire Winterland Tour 1992 T Shirt, working as a translator for Chinese government officials in Rwanda. She told me that it was her first trip to Africa, and she was surprised by what she saw. She told me that before that trip, she thought Africa was a dangerous place, with animals and warlords all over the place. You could tell she was changed by her experience. We discussed various topics our respective cultures, work ethic, determination of Chinese and Rwandan people and many other interesting topics of our countries. When we landed in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia and went separate ways, she promised that she was going to encourage her university friends to come visit as she felt bad from all the stereotypes she initially had.

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We lived a 3 hour drive from my grandparents so when my dad finished work on Christmas Eve we would pack everything into the Reba McEntire Winterland Tour 1992 T Shirt and set off for Yorkshire. No motorways back then. Green fields turned moorland until we finally went over the Pennines, Stanage or Holme Moss, and begun the final leg of our journey through soot blackened mill towns reaching my grandparents’ house at around 8pm. At about 9.30 a plethora of cousins and aunties and uncles would turn up an we would set off to go carol singing with other members of the congregation and band from their local chapel. Along the route we would be greeted with mince pies, slices of Christmas cake and chunks of cheese even the odd glass of Sherry or mulled wine for the adults. We belted out all the old traditional carols, my favourites being While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night which we sung to Cranbrook (Ilkley Moor) and also Christians Awake. We naturally sang O Come All ye Faithful but only after midnight were we allowed to sing the final verse of Yea Lord we Greet Thee. Shortly after midnight we called it a day. Many of the adults slightly ‘merry’ from a surfeit of Sherry!

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The first thing you need to understand is the background of the word “jolly.” It has reached the Reba McEntire Winterland Tour 1992 T Shirt now of being purely a noun, meaning a paid-for day out, commonly in your employer’s time. But a jolly? Strange word. Back in the relatively innocent days of the mid-twentieth century, jolly was a round-cheeked, smiling, uncomplicated word. It went with fat, beaming, seaside-postcard ladies, having a cheerful time on the beach or at the funfair, or Enid Blyton schoolgirls having a midnight swim down at the beach, or a midnight feast up on the roof of the jolly old school. It was all very jolly, with never any repercussions, and it was all jolly good. Before that, the word seems to have come from two possible directions, and quite possibly both of them. It may be from the French joli, meaning merrry or joyful, or from the Norse word jól, from which we get Yule, as an old word for Christmas festivities. Put them together and the result is a jolly good word for everyone having a good time. It’s a pity it’s been corrupted into having overtones of something slightly dishonest!

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For some quick background: I am the son of two immigrants to America (one from Europe and one from South America), and was raised in NYC outside of any specific cultural diaspora. My cultural rituals were all inherited from the Reba McEntire Winterland Tour 1992 T Shirt I grew up in (i.e. mingling with close friends from diverse backgrounds), not from the past that my parents came from (I have zero idea how my parents celebrated the holidays when they were children in their home countries). I don’t really care about cultural traditions as anything more than interesting footnotes. This isn’t to say that the evolution of holidays over time can’t be fascinating, or meaningful, or worth awareness and study. It’s very cool to learn about the road that lead us to our current understanding of the holiday season, and where all of our different cultural iconographies arrived from.