Once school comes to an end and becomes a ghost town, houses are filled with warmth and unique traditions that families celebrate during the holiday season, during Thanksgiving.

Some families place their christmas tree up, or have different foods to appreciate different cultures and spend quality time with each other and friends.

“My family likes to bring jars of quarters, and we like to play card games and gamble for quarters,” science teacher Derek Poci says. “So we get together, we eat, and then we’ll watch football, and then periodically, you can sit down at a table.”

Poci continues on talking about the time with family and how it’s changing as his kids slowly get older.

“I don’t know,” Poci says. “It’s kind of changing, as my kids get older, because now I’m watching them run around the yard and do stuff and like and play with their cousins. So, that’s kind of fun, too. I don’t know if that’s a tradition, but that’s something that didn’t used to happen. That’s happening now, and that’s fun to watch.”

As time continues passing by, spending time with family and traveling out to spend time with them.

“We start off with parent teacher conferences for teachers and for Monday and Tuesday,” bio-med teacher Leah Palletier says, “and then Wednesday, I will be with my family, and Thursday, I’ll be with my husband’s family. Usually after we eat Thanksgiving dinner, then we watch Christmas vacation together to kind of start the Christmas season.”

As Thanksgiving rolls around, so does finding time to spend with friends.

“I usually get together with all my friends,” senior Ousamne Miga says, “We all exchange dishes to eat together at my friends house. And with my family we sometimes travel a couple states over to go to the family’s house, and that’s all we really do.”

As the days pass by thanksgiving creeps closer and closer, soon all family and friends gather together to enjoy a warm comforting meal and spend quality time with each other.