Student View: Shella Misere
THP Volunteer Nicky Harter stands with Philo student Shella Misere before going to their morning classes.
Christmas time means the celebration of the birth of Jesus. It is a time of reconciliation and happiness when every person shares whatever they have. In Haiti, Christmas time means a celebration of peace and love. People have a custom to take out old things and replace them with the new. It is a time for all persons, rich or poor, to make good food, prepare cake and drink. We begin celebrating the day of Jesus’s birth on December 24th and have celebrations each night until January 1st which is our Independence Day celebration. People in Haiti are very joyful celebrating Christmas.
At LCS the students are joyful too! First of all, students feel that the holiday vacation is a pleasure because they are going to take a rest from much homework, quizzes, and studies. They are going to be at home for a while to see friends, family members, and they are going to enjoy themselves a lot.
Christmas at LCS means joy, concerts, and every year students at LCS celebrate it in their own way. We celebrate it by having a party where every person in every grade will participate. This party means to us that at LCS we have built a family, a community, which means that we share our sadness, our joy, our punishments, our food, our sickness; we share every good and bad thing. Therefore, we choose a day to enjoy together a party and the night before we make up a concert for everyone. We enjoy the day by ignoring our frustrations and sadness by doing things they way they are supposed to be done.
Every person talks about this party. They are very passionate to see the raising of the sun on that special day. They feel the spirit of the party. They have it in their mind and in their behavior and they enjoy participating in the celebration.
Christmas at LCS, and January 1st, the day of celebration of our Independence - the day that we were delivered from slavery - these occasions are joyful!
