1. We don't really have any crazy traditions in my family. We all head down to my grandparents house in Marion and cook all the Thanksgiving food together, play games and puzzles, tell stories, and just have a good time being around one another. But recently I've been staying up late with my aunt and grandfather and just talking to them while everyone else is asleep.
2. I share the holiday with my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and many baby cousins, along with my aunt's dog. My baby cousins are crazy, and loud, but I love them and they really make me appreciate the little things in life more. My aunt and uncle are both very sweet, my aunt is a teacher and is very reserved, whereas my uncle is a metalhead engineer who likes to joke around and be silly. My grandmother is the one who gets everyone together, plans everything, cooks most of the food. My grandfather helps out my grandmother, and sets the table, seasons things, and helps cook, but he makes the mixed drinks and alcohol because he used to be a bartender.
3. Here's the kitchen and Sun/Dining area

4. We are almost always at my grandparents house in Marion. I live with my grandparents and have since I was 5, so I go to this house a lot, and it's their future retirement home. It's a very big and open house, with a big front yard and a wide gravel driveway, and a big forest with a clearing in front of it behind the house. I'm usually in the finished basement on my own or with friends, but on Thanksgiving and holidays I'm always up there with my family enjoying my time.
5. I think that Thanksgiving is a time to spend time with your family and loved ones and allow yourself to reflect on life and how far we've each come, and be thankful and grateful for everything we have that has allowed us to get to where we are in the world. Being able to share a meal with distant family doesn't happen very often, so being able to appreciate the food and people around you can help you appreciate life as a whole.

1) This trip only added to my sense because I always visit the place we were at during my free time, and when I need to calm my mind.
2) We were by the water on a bike path, with some of the water running under us when we were walking over the wooden bridges that were there. There was a pathway down to the water further up the bike path, and another path that led to the woods.
3) I got to talk to more people in our class today than I ever have, and it was a great experience. It really made me feel more connected to where I was and even better who I was with, and it was a very enjoyable experience.
4) I thought the iPad was good, but not completely necessary. I think it should be kept more open to the students, to either take pictures and videos, or talk to one another and just enjoy their time.
5) I enjoy the movies and pictures, it really shows the individual creativity of each person and group as a whole, and shows how each group expresses things in a different way.

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2) We went to the Salem Wax Museum because we figured it would give us more of a formal insight as to the history of Salem and it also was something fun that we'd all never done before
3) I just called the Wax Museum and they told us the times that tours were going through, so we met there at around the time that a tour would start and made our way through
4) What is a seafarer? Why was Salem the hot spot for all of these death sentences for people that were accused of being witches?
5) One of the things that I thought was interesting were all of the different statues, and how intricate they each were and detailed they were. I never really expected them to be that intricate and detailed in person by just looking at them. Even just walking through the Museum it smelled a lot like wax and chemicals, which was something to take note of that I found interesting in the place. One thing I didn't like was how short it was. Walking at my normal pace, I could walk through that whole museum in about 10-15 minutes. Now I obviously took my time to make the experience longer and gain more from it, but I still feel as though it could've been longer. I am using the critical thinking based around senses and knowing your surroundings from Shushan.
6) I think that I learned more about the popular side of Salem's history, with the witch trials and everything like that, but I don't really feel like I got a better sense of place from this experience, but it was something fun to do around the area.
7) I wanted to learn more about what exactly started the witch trials and why they began, the museum mostly talked about what happened in the witch trials once they had already begun.
8) I am going to write my paper on what it is that sparked the Salem witch trials to become such a big event in America's history, and why they became so big, and what was the belief behind witches and what they could do.
9) I read the link that you attached to the assignment on Canvas.