Have you ever had one of those weekend that takes your whole weekend away and you barely had anytime to do anything? With over a hundred families of relatives not including in-laws and friends here in Sheboygan. A few families are converted to Christian, Lutheran and Catholic; the majority still keeps their cultural and religious beliefs. Well, this weekend was one of those weekend. Seven close family relatives decided to do their religious cultural festival this weekend, I mean in the same weekend. So this weekend I spent most of my time running around from one family to another to help out with everything; from cooking, cleaning, preparing food, waiting and greet guests, etc. With these religious festival, you want as many people to attend as possible. I just don't understand why everyone had to do it on the same weekend. They clearly know that when a lot of families do it all at same weekend, only a few will attend and it would kind of worthless.
With the Hmong cultural, helping each other means a lot. If you don't help out others, others will not help you in the future. So being that its my close relatives that is hosting the religious cultural festival, I had no choice but to help out. It pretty much take up my whole weekend and here I am just got home typing up my blog on a Sunday night.