My Family Culture

• A description of the three items you would choose
• A scrapbook/photo album with photos of friends and family and other important things that I want to remember
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• My Bible
  
• My jewelry box
  
• How you would explain to others what each of these items means to you
• I would take a photo album because pictures are very important to me. I think I really like pictures because they remain the same even when the people and things in them are completely different. If I took my photo album it would be a reminder of all of the good times even though i would need to be leaving my home.
•  I would choose my Bible because my faith is important to me. I would want to make sure to take it with me and to hold onto it even though I would be going to a culture where they do not have the same faith as me. 
• I would also take my jewelry box because although it does not actually have any real jewelry in it, it has keepsakes that are special and important to me. It has coins in it that my grandmother gave me before she passed away and a small marble painted to look like the earth given to me by my grandfather. By taking the jewelry box, I would also be taking these special things along with me that would make me thing of people in my family.
• Your feelings if, upon arrival, you were told that you could only keep one personal item and have to give up the other two items you brought with you..
• .If I have to choose only one to keep and two to part with, I would chose to keep the photo album/scrapbook. Photos are very important to me and  I would want to make sure that I still had this small part of myself with me. It would be very hard to give up the other things, but this one would be something that I would be able to look at over and over again and to share it with my children, if I ever had any.
• Any insights you gained about yourself, your family culture, diversity, and/or cultural differences in general, as a result of this exercise,
• This was actually much more of a difficult task than I thought it would be from reading the instructions. It was really hard for me to narrow it down to three things that I would bring. It was also interesting for me to think about what it would be like if I lived in a different culture and had to choose three things to bring. In the United States we are a very materialistic culture, there were so many things that I considered taking but I had to choose from only three.