WHAT ABOUT CHRISTMAS?

Christmas' days are days of joy, happiness, holidays, celebrations, meetings, family... but we all have different cultures, and we celebrate Chirstmas by different ways. Now, I'm going to explain us how do we celebrate those days in Catalunya's culture, how do my family and I celebrate Christmas.

CALENDAR

the most important days are those ones:

24th DECEMBER: TIÓ'S NIGHT. We meet all the family and "caguem el tió". A tió is a magic trunk: we all hit it with a stik, then we go out at the garden and we sing some Cristmas songs. When we go back inside again, there are a lot of presents for us under the trunk. We hit it again and then we can open all the presents. 

Tió has also a song, we sing that song while we hit el tió. You can listen it if you clik here!

25th  DECEMBER: Christmas day. We meet our family and have a really great lunch. I usually eat cold cuts, salade, cannelloni, chicken, and for desserts candies and nougats. 

26th DECEMBER: Sant Esteve. We meet the other part of our family and we have another dinner. I usually go to Barcelona because my grandmother lives there. We stay there all the afternoon, we sing Christmas songs and we play with our cousins. We sleep in Barcelona and we come back home on 27th December.

31th DECEMBER: The last day of the year!! We generally meet with our friends and we organise a party and we have dinner toghether. When the last  minutes before 12 AM arrive we turn on the TV and we prepare 12 grapes for each person, the little kids that don't like grapes eat "Lacasitos!". 12 seconds before the next year arrive, a bells chiming starts and we eat our grapes while it sounds. When the new year starts, the party goes on and we go to sleep late. 

 

5 th JANUARY: The wise men arrive and when all the boys and girls start to sleep, they give them a lot of presents and when they get up, they found the presents in the living room. 

6 th JANUARY: We open all the presents. Everybody is happy , but at the same time sad because the Christmas has finished and we must come back to school and  our jobs. 

  

SONGS

Me and my cousins have choosed some of our favourite Christmas songs. Have a look to them!!!

EL 25 DE DESEMBRE

EL NOI DE LA MARE

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

A BETLEM ME'N VULL ANAR

LOS PECES EN EL RÍO

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

LA CANÇÓ DEL TRINEU (jingle bells)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE

QUAN SOMRIUS

SANTA NIT (silent night)

UN GREC UN GROC I UN NEGRE 

UN CAMELL D'ORIENT

EL PETIT VAILET

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU

WHITE CHRISTMAS

EL CAGANER

M'AGRADA EL NADAL

AN EVENT FOR RECYCLING : that's a composition where I invent an event about recycling

Next 17 th February an event for recycling will take place in Olot. It's a competition. People of all ages can participate in that game, but they will be classified in three different categories: 1-less than twelve years 2- from twelve to twenty years 3- more than twenty years. The first one will be in the morning: the participants will have to sit on a chair, a volunteer will show them a card with a picture ofe some rubbish, and they will have to say in which of the recycling bins has the rubbish go. If they are right, they will get three points and they will play again. In case they fail, they lose the points and they can't play again, then another player can play the card and win two points. The second challenge will be in pairs. Each pair will have to talk to the other groups to convince them why recycling is important, why do they do it. the most satisfying opinion will get as much points as pairs participating and the reasons that will get the worst position will get one point. The pair in the second position will get one point less than the first and like this until the last pair. At the last test luck will be a very important element because the participants will have to play a game similar to Parcheesi, but more dinamic (with some proofs) where all the participants will play against each other. The winner will get two points multiplied by the advantage against the second position's player.

The cathegory's winner from the whole competiton will get a big prize, given by some of the Olot's business. And the participants that won't win also get a little prize.