My english blog :): 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.