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The Governors Ball Music Festival

Nationality: Polish American
Age: 21
Occupation: Student
Residence: NYC, USA
Performance Date: 4/6/18
Primary Language: English

‘My friend Rachel first told me about this music festival. She told me about how her sister had been to several festivals and told her to go experience a music festival. Music festivals our way to bond with friends and having experience of listening to so many musicians over the course of 1 to 5 days and even longer. These festivals in food live music of all sorts, however their specialties amongst different festivals. Every festival has food and beverage lineups, musical lineup, special festival vendors such as flower crowns and sponsored booths by big companies. I have found it so fun To experience festivals with my friends because we all enjoy the same music and get to experience it live with thousands of other people. There are so many different elements to a festival including learning music before (if you want to). Our first music festival was the Governor’s Ball music festival in New York City, our hometown. We wanted to go to a festival that was close to home in case anything were to happen and also because we love the musicians playing. We realized upon arriving that it was a festival where pictures were being taken left and right, and we got to experience the festival life. Festival life usually entails consuming illegal substances and reminiscing about the Woodstock days. While there are many more regulations at festivals nowadays, it still was done by most festival goers. There festivals all over the world that pertain to many different events, such as Oktoberfest in Germany and the flying lantern Festival is in Asia. In America there is a huge interest in music festival is because of the experience link to it. While the Governors Ball is one of the most popular festivals to attend, There are so many other festivals to experience in the future.

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Rule of Three’s: Good vs. Bad

Nationality: Phillipino
Age: 19
Occupation: Student
Residence: USC
Performance Date: 4/20/18

Good Luck and Bad Luck comes in Threes, where action goes energy flows.

Another premonition that kind of depends on what you sent out into the universe and think about, where that energy flows. A great example of this is good luck and bad luck comes in threes. Lukas described to me that he learned this saying from his mother. While it is not 100% guaranteed, coincidences occur that correspond to this saying. People often say if they encounter any bad luck that it will happen three times in a row and the same is for good luck. There is not a specific documentation of this happening every time, however you become conscious one something bad happens and it becomes easier for you to pick Up on other negative aspects or events you encounter. Likewise, this goes for positive events if you want something good to happen and it does, usually, three other good things will happen. It’s not forced, and it’s not something that you pray about, however wherever you put your energy and focus it, it is returned back to you in some way, shape or form.

 

Walking Under a Ladder

Nationality: Irish American
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Residence: USC
Performance Date: 4/20/18
Primary Language: English

This is a superstition that is known universally. My friend Kaitlin was explaining the story to me and she told me that all of her friends told her not to walk under a ladder. She still does it, to test the world because she thinks it’s funny. It probably came from the notion that walking under a ladder is dumb because if the latter falls and somebody’s on it they will get hurt and or the person who was walking under the water could get hurt.Kaitlyn is a Christian, and in the Christian religion, there is a belief that the Holy Trinity parentheses the father the son and the Holy Ghost parentheses mean that it makes a triangle. A ladder is in the shape of a triangle, and therefore walking through it is seen as breaking Trinity. It is seen as a crime in the religion and a potential attraction and summoning of the devil. To avoid the superstitions of walking under a ladder, some people use remedies. One that Kaitlin knows was to Make-A-Wish while walking under the latter. Another is to walk back through the ladder. This sounds kind of funny however you might not know what kind of ill fortune you brought a pot among yourselves because of walking under the ladder if you use one of these remedies, or even if you do walk under a ladder you may experience some kind of bad luck. It is not proven anywhere, however it widely questions and known as a superstition globally.

 

Dental Joke

Nationality: Irish American
Age: 19
Occupation: student
Residence: USC
Performance Date: 4/20/18
Primary Language: English

What is the best time to go to the dentist? Tooth hurty.

This joke was told to me by one of my closest friends, and she is quite the jokester. As she was telling me this joke, she pretty much admitted to telling everybody this joke because she finds it so funny. It’s very senseless and does not really have any catch lines or interesting elements to it. It was ironic because I had heard this from my uncle many years ago, as he always tells everyone he meets this joke too. It is not inventive or really that funny, that makes everybody laugh, almost every time because of the simplicity of it.

 

Bud, Rose, Thorn

Nationality: Irish, American
Age: 78
Occupation: Hospice Volunteer
Residence: MA, USA
Performance Date: 4/3/18
Primary Language: English

Bud, Rose, Thorn

This is a tradition that my family always does at dinner time when we have a large group of people over. One of our favorite times to do this is when we have dinner party is and sometimes we even do it on holidays. It is called Bud, Rose, Thorn, where you talk about different aspects of life. For the bow do you talk about something that you’re looking forward to in life, and this can be anything from trying this meal to a new job to meeting someone new. Next we do the Rose which is something that you have experienced recently that was a gray and you enjoyed it. Lastly the thorn Represents the adversity that you overcame her had to deal with a hide shit. It’s a way to get to know people, and also as an icebreaker if it’s a new oil intimidating group of people. Originally my brother heard this from my grandmother who had heard it from some of her friends. It also was a way to pass time and get to know people better. Things like these are especially interesting to analyze because of the unknown things that you can find out about people that you otherwise would not know.