Study unit 4: Blog

Kinship is a very important part of every person’s life and it shows the way people are connected to one another. It defines a person’s personality and surroundings. Kinship is also the connection between people for example, blood related, marriage, relatives. I do have a big family to start with. Firstly, there is my parents who I was born from and they both have siblings. My father has a sister that I am very close to known as my aunt. She taught me life lessons and the history of our family tree. She has 2 daughters known as my cousins that spend a lot of time with them and go on regular camping trips together. We also used to have sleep overs and nail and hair days where we would all go to the salon to get our hair and nails done. They are both a bit older than me and my brother. My brother and I differ 3 years, he is the oldest. On the other side of the family I have an aunt and an uncle (my mother’s brother and sister). Her brother lives in Oudshoorn near George and her sister lives in our hometown. We go to Mosselbaai every December to visit them and take a little holiday to relax on the beach! A vacation is well needed after varsity. We do not see them as often only a few days in December. It is always the best time to celebrate Christmas with them because when we were little my cousins and I used to play all these childhood games and create dances for our parents to let us have a sleep over. This shaped our social structure and culture. Every year we had a sleep over and family time for Christmas and it is known as our social structure and culture.