Organizing a celebration in your hometown(tây ninh)

Every year, from mid-last of September to fourth of October, the Khmer hold “Đôn Ta” celebration. It is a celebration for the Khmer’s dead relatives. In fact that the Khmer do not have the celebration for each dead person individual day, so “Đôn Ta” is the celebration for all the dead person in the ethnic. It is considered that in these day, their dead relatives will come back home to enjoy “Đôn Ta” with them. In these days of this celebration, we can see clearly three steps to have a successful celebration.
The first step is also the most important step- preparing. About three or four days, people clean up the house ,for they want the come back people satisfy and feel glad with their living. Then they buy a lot of candies, jam, rice wine, incense, and some food that is popular in traditional food because they wish their dead relatives can have a big delicious meal after a long hungry time at another world. Beside that, they kill animals such as chickens, buffaloes, ox to offer their dead relatives, and feast participants. Further more, they make or buy new costumes, sarong and colorful blankets for the dead relatives bring to other life. These works take a lot of time because people prepare these very carefully. Although they are very tired, the atmosphere is very lively.
After preparing step, people celebrate “Đôn Ta”. First, every family brings the tray plenty with food and wine, etc to the table which located in the center of the house. Next, they invite the oldest person or “Lục Cà Cha” who has significant, to come and pray to call their relatives come back, enjoy the party. The oldest person moves around the house, takes a bunch of leaf, and reads the essay. When the ceremonial is finished, the host and the participants start the party, turn by turn they visit all families. When the last family is visited, it is late afternoon. After that, the young girl and boy walk to the front yard of the pagoda to dance “roam-vông” until mid night. The adult will bring food to pagoda and share food with bronzes. It is the day which the Khmer show their respect to their dead relatives and pray for the next harvest.
To finish the celebration, Khmer use the next day to sendoff their relatives. In this day, every family cut banana tree to take a part of it to make ship for bringing food. Some food which is arranged featly is put onto the banana tree. That tree is pushed floating among the river next to the pagoda. When the tree goes far away, it means that the dead have already gone. The Khmer come home and back to the daily life.
“Đôn Ta” is not only the celebration for showing the worship to the dead person but also the feature celebration of the Khmer in Tay Ninh. It helps many people belong to various ethnic closer too, for they join this celebration. I hope this celebration will be continuous long time.

Classify the friends I have

John Hay once said: “friends are the sunshine of life”. Of course, during the span of life, everyone has been being acquainted with many people who called friends, but these friends are not the same significant in your life, are they? The answer depends on everyone’s opinion in the friendship; my answer is these friends are not the same. From my primary ages to my university ages, I have made friend with many people whom I think could be put into three groups of friend based on the meaningful of these friends in my life and the length of time we met each other.
The most meaningful friend is called close friend. Buddy is person who have the same characteristic, fancy, and almost the viewpoint in many fields of life, so this friendship can remain for a long time. Thank to many similarities, we can understand each other deeply, help to solve friend’s problems easily and help each other more perfectly. For example, when I had problems with my emotion relationships, N ,one of my best friends, is willing to listen up to me, help me find out the important points and the ways to dealt with these, or just give me the shoulder to cry on. Another example, when I was being ill my friend help me take note the important information which gave by teachers, and they took care of me during the time I was in the hospital far away from home. Although finding a close friend is very difficult, it is worth to do.
The next style of friend is classmate. Classmate, who joined the same class, learned the same subjects from the same teachers with us, is many styles of human beings. While someone just has some close friends, he or she can have a lot of classmates, so this kind of friend is considered the neutral relationship. Although this style of friend is called normal, these friends could help a lot. When we study in class, classmates can help us fill the lack knowledge hole in mind, work as a team to finish homework; as these friends came from many different provinces on three regions of our country, each other can exchange their culture, traditional together to enrich themselves. Moreover, working with classmates is the best environment to study how to cooperate to get goal with people who do not have exactly the same ideas with us.
The last but not least significant style of friend is friend in society. We called these people are friends because they are friends of our friends and some case we just met them once or twice. In fact that, we do not invest much time for theses friends, and do not know about much them, we still keep in touch with them because we want to have expanding our relationship, and get our life more lively. Furthermore, some people said that friend in society can bring to us many chances to work in future so far. No doubt that more friend is more fun even thought those friend whom we have just met some times.
In summary, from the past to now, all kind of friend is very necessary in our life because friends is a gift which came from the heaven. Friends helped us get a more meaningful in life. If someone has not found a friend yet, he or she should find out some for themselves; if who already have, try to keep and protect it as long as you can.