Blog #21
Christmas is a very special holiday in my family.  Everyone is spread all over the country and spend most of the year with little to no contact.  Christmas is the holiday we plan to all meet together and have a mini family reunion.  We will decide if it is going to be here in Utah, in California, or maybe in Arizona.  The best Christmases are the ones where everyone can afford to make the trip and we can all see each other for that one time of the year.  It makes the holidays more fun when you can have your entire family with you to celebrate it.

I love Christmas in my family. Throughout the whole year we dont get to have much contact with one another until christmas comes along.  I enjoy Christmas even more when I can see all of my cousins and have someone to hang out with.  Now that I have a family it is even more fun because my kids get to meet their relatives for the first time on occasion or get to see their cousins for only the second or third times.

I actually liked writing the first one more.  It seems more like a story instead of a journal entry or something like that.  It seems more fluent to me when you dont use "I".

I haven't heard much about using the word "I" in a research paper.  It does seem that it would be a better paper without it.  After all it is a "research" paper, not a "my opinion" paper.  Which is what "I" usually means, that you are giving your opinion. If you are using quotes from an article or something, than there is really no place to put "I", unless you are filling in between quotes, which then I think it may be ok.  So Im not positive on the rules about that. (317)