A Family Gathering

A family is a group of people to which you are related. Many times, a person spends time with his/her family, but that is not the case with my mother’s side of the family and my sisters and me. I barely know my mother’s family, seeing as they live across the Atlantic Ocean in Germany. Whenever I do see them, there is always some kind of celebration at either the beginning or end of the trip. One instance that sticks out in my mind is when my mother, sisters, and I went to Germany in 2007. On our last full day there, my uncle hosted a huge cookout for us as a going away party. The entire family was there, except for my mom’s sister that lives in Italy. It was so much fun to just get the opportunity to spend time with my family, especially my cousins that were close to my age. All afternoon we played cards and random games, not letting the slight language barrier get between us. To many people, this may not seem like much of a day, but I never see my family, so the opportunity to just spend time with them and not worry about anything else.