About Christmas

About Christmas

Christmas is celebrated around the world in lots of different countries.
Although the Christmas holiday season is typically known for its wintry weather, not all Christmas traditions around the world are one in the same.

-Christmas Market.
It’s popular across central Europe,
It’s a famous market where can buy lots of ornaments and lights about Christmas to decorate old that you want; your house, Christmas tree,…

-Boxing Day.

After the day after Christmas in the country is known as Boxing Day, it's an Australian public holiday. Similar to Black Friday in the United States, on this day, stores put on huge sales and people pour in to get the best deals.


-The Gavle Goat.
A tradition since 1966 in the town of Galve, this festive display is very popular since lots years ago. The 13 meter high and three ton straw-made statue was built to showcase the traditional Swedish Christmas straw goat, which normally is made in sizes small enough to fit on a mantle.

-Christmas Pudding.

Once called Plum Pudding, this British tradition, also popular in Australia, has been served throughout history around the Christmas holiday season. The pudding itself takes hours to cook and then it is usually served still flaming hot or actually flaming

-Letter to Santa. 
It’s a well-known tradition around the world, writing letters to Santa Claus has become a new and popular tradition. However it’s origins come from Canada. Santa Claus today has his own postal code and he can be written to in any language, even Braille, and Santa will actually write you back too. Together volunteers from the postal service help respond to all the letters sent to Santa each year.

Christmas time

Christmas holiday is the time to be with family and friends. It’s celebrated all around the world at the same time of the year because it’s the beginning of winter, although there are some religions that don’t celebrate it like: Judaism, Muslim and Buddhism.  They celebrate another type of parties. We the Christians rejoice the birth of Jesus.

To begin with, we do different things like decorating the house with ornaments and putting up a Christmas tree, we sing carols,  we do a typical tradition in Catalonia that is the “caga tió” which consists in giving food to a piece of wood in order to get presents…

On Christmas eve Santa Claus goes to everyone’s house so as to put the present under the tree. The next morning all the families wake up to open the presents, we after go to our families houses to have lunch with the family.

Finally we have the Boxing Day, we also have lunch with the other part of the family to see them and spend time together.

Christmas festivities:

Christmas festivities:

This month, December, is special because there are a lot of festivities and we stay with the family.

We celebrate those festivities because Jesus was born in December 24^th, and in all the world we celebrate that with festivities, and the name of this festivity it’s Christmas.

Currently, Christmas has lost its meaning, lots of years ago we celebrated because Jesus was born and it was a Cristian festivity, but nowadays we’ve lost this meaning and we celebrate it only because of the presents and to stay with all the family.

Our conclusion is that we celebrate Christmas not in the right way because we don’t celebrate it like a tradition and we only rejoice it for the presents and now we think that it isn’t a good way to celebrate this important festivity. 

Are Real Madrid crap?

This season is very bad for Real Madrid. One of the most important teams of the world, is playing like a children’s team, because in this season the lost 0-4 vs. the Futbol Club Barcelona in Santiago Bernabéu, they couldn’t sign David De Gea because the documents were late.

The biggest crisis of this team was last day vs. Cádiz when Rafa Benítez lined up Cherysev, this player was sanctioned in the game against Barça and when he played in Villareal.

Real Madrid make excuses because they don’t want a sanction, other teams were eliminated from the cup for the same situation.

CHRISTMAS AND CONSUMPTION

The following weeks, we will buy lots of things because it’s Christmas. Although we are in crisis, people consume a lot, children are not aware about the price of everything. They think that the three wise men are magic, so that, parents can’t explain the cost of everything to them.

Parents normally buy everything for their sons but it is not the best thing to do because in the end, they think that everything they ask for is what they will have. However, we have all been children. We also spend money buying food because in this dates, we have family dinners and we waste more food. We also buy typical Christmas food that is more expensive.

My conclusion is that lots of people celebrates Christmas because it is only once a year, but if it was more than once, they wouldn’t celebrate that because it is very expensive.

Nowadays, Christmas has lost the meaning, lots of years ago, everyone celebrated Christmas because a boy called Jesus was born, this meant happiness and giving the others love and being generous. Sadly nowadays we celebrate it because we receive gifts from our relatives and we spend time with all of them but we don’t do something related with religion.

THE HUNGER GAMES

The 21st of November it was released the new film from the saga “The Hunger Games”, Mockingjay Part 2. It has been defined like a phenomenon all over the world, beating records in the ticket windows of a lot of cinemas.

The main reason are the books in which is based the film, written by Suzanne Collins, that are defined for some authors, (like Stephen King), as a work that includes the fantasy of Narnia and the inventiveness of the Mechanical Orange.

Another factor that has influenced the big welcome in a lot of countries are the actors, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, and of course, the actress Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the role of Katniss, the main character.

This film is about how Katniss leads the rebellion against the Capitol until the end, but how she must do some sacrifices to bring justice to her country. The idea isn’t to glorify war, but to show the damage it can cause, and how we are all affected by it.

I hope you like it!