It's true, I am growing up--check out my new sari. Sari's are worn for special occasions, weddings, and various government holidays...and at work they can be sort of like a business suit if you have a special presentation....
My Sari occasion (who REALLY needs an occasion anyways?) was for my " Feast Day." From what I gather, when you become a sister/nun, you stop celebrating the day of your birthday and start celebrating a Saint's day. So, my name is Cicely, right, and I was named after St. Cecilia (a patron saint of music)...and November 22 is St. Cecilia's day. So TODAY is my Feast day.
I arrived at the Mission after sleeping at Reba's house. (She had to put me in the sari, it is quite the operation to get it on!) The sisters greeted me with singing "happy feast day to you" and "the Lord Bless you" and other happy sounding songs. They all then handed me sweet smelling flowers and kissed both of my cheeks. It was a little awkward, sort of like hugging can be (do we know eachother well enough to hug or not??) but in the end it was all fine and dandy and I felt really celebrated. Next I walked into my class, and there was more singing and kissing and dancing and they even bought me a new pair of earrings. (they must know earings are my weakness, I wear a new pair everyday it seems.) They said, "we don't have much to give you, but we give you our love" it was super sweet.
Then we practiced vocabulary. I am such a teacher.
3 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving Cic! Your sari is gorgeous and I think of you every day. Hope you're settling in well and enjoying your own version of Sister Act. I love the picture of the sister with the tambourine! So great!
You look beautiful! We love your sari, it's very colorful, you look really good in it! We just had our thanksgiving dinner in new york. linz really appreciated your card, it was very thoughtful, she is doing well and is now swimming on willards swim team. i hope you had a wonderful St. Cecelia day, it sounded like fun, but also kinda awkward! haha
love you
mal and aunt sheri
I agree with everyone else--you look beautiful in your new sari! Happy Feast Day to you, cousin Cecelia. :) Speaking of feasts, we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with some friends and I made caramel pecan pie and pumpkin pie for the first time ever (they both turned out yummy thankfully!). It was 80 degrees here today--sari weather I think! Miss you--
Love,
Amy
p.s. You are such a great blogger!
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