Spooky Holidays

[Beatriz]

It'll be weird for me to celebrate Christmas in 35 degrees!!

I love Christmas too, what I don't like so much is all the consumism, I think a couple of presents is just fine.

I don't send Christmas cards, I used to, but not now.
What I do is set the Christmas tree, I love it with all its lights

We are a very small family, I'm an only child, so is my father, and my mother has one sister and she's not married nor has any children, so on Christmas eve we are 6 for dinner (with my two grandmothers) but it's ok, I don't mind, we're a close family.

We also have New Year's eve dinner, and at 12 o'clock we have 12 grapes, one with each stroke, I always end laughing at any of my relatives and with my mouth full of grapes I love this tradition. And afterwards I go out with my friends. And for breakfast (after going out) we have hot chocolate with "churros" (I look it up and it's made by deep frying sweet bread dough).

Here, we have 2 present days, one is Father Christmas and the other we call them The Magician Kings (their origin is Christian, but I don't think they have them in other countries). In my family only celebrate the second one that is the 6th of January; so students have long holidays from the 22nd of December (Christmas lottery day) until 6th of January included.