For my third field work assignment, I chose to observe my Friendsgiving meal. A friendsgiving meal is basically a thanksgiving meal with just friends as opposed to family members. With that said, there were six of us that attended the dinner, it was held at my college apartment. My college apartment is really nothing special; so we had a lot of work to do to make it appear homely or a place worth a friendsgiving dinner. Before we had begun cleaning up my apartment, I let my friends know that I was going to be taking notes on the dinner for a paper. They thought it was odd at first, but I explained it was for a cooking class and that it was just generalities. For the dinner, we were supposed to foods that we thought would be …show more content…
During the dinner, the first thing that I noticed was that Patricia ate her tub of ice cream first. I asked her why she did as such and she told me she started it because her father did it all the time at big dinners, she also stated that her mother hated his idiosyncrasy and her mother also hated that Patricia was starting to follow in his ways. The first rule that was ever broken during our dinner was with Adam. For the first half hour of the dinner, he focused his attention on his cellphone, and barely contributed to the dinner conversation. His punishment was simple, Patricia yelled at him, he immediately put his phone down. The next person to face Patricia’s wrath was Wesley. Right after she finished with Adam, she quickly moved her attention to Wesley and yelled at him, because he brought a guest to a dinner for just friends. Wesley’s only defense was “but she left”, this angered Joy even more because he did not understand what he had did wrong. They bickered back and forth making snarky comments under their breaths. While Patricia and Wesley argued, Adam, Sabrina, and I had some table talk. Adam said he was focused on his phone because this “annoying” girl who “just did not get the hint” kept
out his lips, trying to gather back his pride, his anger, all that thunderclap he’d first come striding in here with” (296). Furthermore, she explains with her point of view of why he wants her to come with him, “Even as he said it, I could tell he didn’t want me, didn’t want me back on the farm, didn’t want me to be reminded of her. Another part of him –the good part, if there was such a thing–might even be thinking that I’d be better of here. It was all pride now, all pride. How could he back down?” *(297). It was only because of his pride that he did not want to leave her with the Boatwright’s.
Beta Kappa Hall, the theater at the College of William and Mary. I pulled a
stated, “He was unpredictable. He created his own rules and they changed from moment to
Now both of their mothers weren't the same. One was very strict and wanted everything done by the book and the other had her own trouble. She was dealing with her drug problems and her boyfriend who kept giving
understand what she felt about her life and her family, since her views differed from the
to terms with what was really true of the gap between herself and her mother:
it's members, no one has to attend. I have been a member of this group for the
a while after that they didn't speak of it, but by the way Aylmer looked at his wife,
Also, he was telling her what to do. He wanted her to sit around at home and not work and it was no conducive to her plans.
should have lost her temper and didn’t. For instance, when I was around 12 years old I was bored
my rent. It was hard to imagine that I used to give away money to
Food has been a great part of how he has grown up. He was always interested in how food was prepared. He wanted to learn, even if his mother didn’t want him to be there. “I would enter the kitchen quietly and stand behind her, my chin lodging upon the point of the hip. Peering through...
the students and the adult volunteers. I had to speak loudly and clearly in order to hold the
her own” (120). How Dee offends not only her mother, but her family, is when she claims
Soon, we all sat around the dinner table enjoying my grandma’s culinary specialties. There was one dish that had stuck in my mind though, possibly because it was the last dish served that night.