That's the Christmas's tree 

These are home-loving custard 

This is a photo of our Christmas's dinner 

This is a  photo of our turkey, with bread, ham, and potatoes with cheese  

All our dinner 

This is a turkey 

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS IN SPAIN

School ends on December 21 and that is synonymous of Christmas time! On December 24'' noche buena'' is where the family gathers and mostly make dinner.

The next day is Christmas and children look in vain their gifts to the tree. December 31 is ''noche vieja'' and the family back together for dinner and eat the famous 12 grapes.

January 5 the three wise men visit all the districts on a ride and distributed sweets. And the next day again open the gifts that have left. In Catalonia there are another traditional celebration.

The ''caga tió'' There is a piece of tree. The kids hit him to give more gifts.

                                                            Sagrada Família at Christmas.

My Christmas

Dear , Henrik

At Christmas Santa Claus  gave me a present ,

and we ate “turrones” it is a different sweet , similar in shape to a chocolate bar but is mainly made of almond and sugar. My present was a mobile phone and  some money.

At New year's eve all my family come to my house to celebrate the arrival of the new year and at twelve o’clock in the last twelve seconds  we eat one grape with each bell stroke and then we are in the new year .

The Three Wise men come  the 5th of January with a big parade and that night  they bring more presents.

My Christmas

Last Christmas was very nice.

The 24th of  December we celebrate the Tió. The Tió is a piece of wood and it gives some  small presents (candies, chocolates...). We hit it with a stick.

On the 25th December I celebrate the Christmas day in mi granny’s house.  I went to eat and to open the presents. We ate turrón (like a chocolate bar), fish, meat, prawns…

I celebrate the New Year’s Eve in a restaurant without more friends. In Spain, for each bell stroke we eat one grape. Then, we go to a discotheque to dance all night.

The 6 of January we’re celebrate the three wise men. Their names are: Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar. We get more presents too, and we’re go to have lunch with the family.

The 8th we go back  to  school. The Christmas is over.

The pesebre in the avenue

The Tió

Christmas in Spain

Christmas food

Dear friends,

Last Christmas was very nice. First, we celebrated the Christmas’ Eve with my family and friends and ate a lot!! We hit the ‘Tió’ with a piece of wood and it gave us some presents. After that, we went to my granny’s house to lunch, we also ate a lot! Then, we celebrated ‘Sant Esteve’ with my granny, too. In 31st of December, at 23:59 there are the bell strokes and we eat 1 grape with this. During Christmas we eat ‘turrons’ and ‘polvorones’. The 6^th of January, we celebrate the ‘reyes magos’ (Three Wise Men) and they come at night and bring a lot of presents.

We end the Christmas holidays on the 8^th of January .

My Christmas

My Christmas

Dear friends.

The Christmas in Spain starts the 25th of December (Christmas) and ends the 6th of January (the three Wise men (kings). We decorate the house with a big tree and under the tree we put a little Nativity scene with the birth of the Jesus child. We play the “quinto” (is the same of bingo). We eat a lot of different candies. On the 6th of January we celebrate the three Wise men. In 6th of January they bring us a lot of presents. In spain we receive presents twice, and it isn’t so cold here.

My Christmas

Dear friends,

We celebrate Christmas, New Year’s Eve and the Three Wise Men day.

On Christmas, we eat special food and make the " Tió." That’s a piece of wood we hit it, singing a song and it gives us presents (very small ones).

On New Year’s Eve, we eat twelve grapes to celebrate the New Year.

On the Three Wise Men day, people give lots of presents to children.

See you soon

Oriol Poncelas

Dear, Meera.

At Christmas I opened the gifts with my family. I was given: a lot of money,  gaming keyboard, gaming mouse, and one game of Steam.

Steam is a gaming platform that  sell digital games.

In New Year’s eve day eat 12 grapes with my family at 00:00 o’clock.

In 6^th of January come ‘’The three Wise Men’’. They are tree people  who bring  gifts. Its awesome!

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

                                                             The christmas tree and the tió

The Nativity Scene

I celebrate Christmas with my family. The typical Christmas food are “turrons”, “polvorons” and  “tortell de reis”. In my house we make Nativity Scene and we put the Christmas tree. There is a tradition in Catalonia the “tió”, there is a typical little trunk, it has face and it brings presents. In 25th of December comes santa. The New year´s eve we eat twelve grapes and then we celebrate the New year. On the 5th of January at night the three wise men do a parade and the  6th of January the three wise men come and bring presents. Next to the three wise men we have one holiday and the next day we go to school.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

Dear  friends

I celebrate Christmas eve with my family . Of decorations we use a Christmas tree , It is very tall, and make the ''Nativity Scene'' .We also celebrate  Santa Claus who  brings presents . After that we celebrate New year's eve , we eat one grape with each bell stroke , after the eating of grapes  we eat the ''turrons'' made of chocolate or almond and ''polvorons'' . After being awake all night night and in the morning we eat  ''churros'' ( is a breakfast ). After we celebrate the Three wise men on the 5th and 6th of January. It consist of one ''parade'' where the three wise men throw sweets to everybody. The next day the three wise men bring us presents. The children spend the whole day playing with the toys. And here end the Christmas holidays.

The ''tortell de reis''

                                                   

The Prawns

My Christmas

Hello:
At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
In my family we have dinner together at Christmas' eve and our parents (or ''Santa Claus'') give us presents.

We make a Nativity Scene and a Christmas tree.

In New Year's day we have dinner together once again and we have a special dinner.
In the three wise men's eve (king's day) we go to see the parades. The next morning our parents (or the Three wise men) give us presents. The next day we go to school another time.

Three wise men's parade

MY CHRISTMAS

Dear friends,

I spent my last Christmas  with my family.

This Christmas was the best not only for being with my family and the gifts or for the food either but my aunt came and stayed with us. We have eaten pasta shells which is a kind of soup, the next day we ate prawns.

One day I stayed at my cousin's where they had a traditional trunk here we call it  TIO.

The best was the day was when we ate the cake kings of kings, I ate three pieces to get  King and not the bean which are hidden inside the cake.  

My Christmas

My Christmas was special because I spent  it with my family.

I don’t do any Christmas tree here I have a “tió”.

A “tió” is a piece of trunk. We have to hit the “tió” with a wooden stick.

“Tió” gives sweets or small toys to the children.

We go to a parade, in the parade the three Wise Men (the kings) throw sweets, to the people.

In Spain we  eat “turrons”  .

Turrons are made of almonds and they are  delicious!!

On New Year’s eve we eat grapes, we eat one grape with each bell stroke.

 On 31/12/2013 was my birthday. I celebrate my birthday with New Year’s and Christmas.

Rambla Francesc Macià at Christmas night.

MY CHRISTMAS

This Christmas I celebrated with my family and we went to see the town council's Nativity scene.

In the morning we have lunch in a restaurant.

In the restaurant we ate chicken and then we went to my uncles house.

The Sant Esteve's day (26th) we went to my grandfather's house and ate cannelloni.

On 31 the December at 12:00 o'clock I'm ate twelve grapes, one with each bell stoke.

On the 5th of January I went to see a kings parade. (The Three wise men arrive in the city with a parade)

At the kings day, my family and I go to the house of my grandfather.

In the afternoon we go to the house of my cousin.

Later, we all go to play and have some fun together the whole family.

The next day older and working, but we are not going to school until the next day and we can enjoy the gifts of kings.

This is the city Nativity Scene

                                                               This is the town hall

My Christmas

Dear friends,                                                                                                                            14/01/2014

My family celebrate Christmas in family and with our friends. We put the christmas tree and, the Nativity scene; with the Three wise men (the kings), the child Jesus and her parents (Maria and Jose) and some sepherds with food and vegetables, and we put somo hauses and a river... And some day comes the "tio", the "tio" its a trounk with mouse, eye and nose. And the night od 24 of december we hit them with a stick and he give us presents. On 31th december night we eat 12 graphes, one for each chime, but before we eat in family hardly ever we eat pineaple stuffed with a salad of pasta inside. And at the 6 of January at the evening comes the thre wise men and put presents over our cristhmas tree.And later we go to the house af mi uncles and we eat in his houses and a river... And some day comes the "tio", the "tio" its a trunk with mouth, eyes and nose. On Christmas eve we hit them with a stick and he gives us presents. On 31th December night we eat 12 grapes, one for each bell stroke, but before we eat in family hardly ever we eat pineaple stuffed with a salad of pasta inside. And at the 6 of January at the evening comes the three wise men and put presents under our Christmas tree.And later we go to the house of my uncles and we eat in their house.

My Christmas

-Hello! my name is Andrés Téllez and I am from Colombia but I live in Spain, this Christmas I am 5 years in Spain, and my family and I celebrated this Christmas like we do at Colombia.

-We make `La novena de aguinaldos´: nine days after the nativity scene of Jesus, we pray every day of its nine days till the day of the nativty scene of Jesus.

-On Christmas' eve, all the family (and friends or guests) cook the Christmas food: usually, we cook a big animal (chicken, turkey, pig, lamb) with beer and spices, and we dress it with pineapple sauce; we cook custard too; some pineapple dessert; peanuts; potatoes with cheese; typical Colombian food; etc...

We give the presents to everybody and pray.

-We try all the Christmas to travel to any site, Madrid, Barcelona, sometimes we travel to another countries.

- On New Year's evet, we make another food, and we wait till the 12:00 for eat the 12 grapes. Then we usually celebrate, we call to our friends and family in Colombia, and wego to sleep very late.

-The next days we travel to sites near our city, and we usually go shopping, and we take many  photos, we Love taking photos!

-Then, we should retorn to the job or to the school.

TOMORROW I WILL POST PHOTOS ABOUT MY CHRISTMAS

My Christmas!!!

 Christmas on Spain:

In this time of year, in Spain, the tipycal food is “turrones”, they look like a chocolate bar, the different types are:  white chocolate, Black chocolate “ soft turrón  and “ hard turrón”. They are mainly made of sugar and almond.

At Christmas eve the family meets at home and celebrate the day, and the next day Santa claus give more presents, and play  “loteria de navidad”.

In New Year’s eve all Spain ,at the same time, eat twelve grapes: 1 grape with each bell stroke. onthe 5th of January, we eat “Roscón de reyes”, and the next day in the morning more presents appear, outside the Christmas tree. The Three Wise Men bring presents to the children.

                           

My Christmas by Alejandro Villarroel

Dear friends.

The Christmas in spain starts the 25th of December (Christmas)and ends the 6th of January (the three Wise men (kings). We decorate the house with a big tree and under the tree we put a litle Nativity scene with the birth of the Jesus child. We play the“quinto” (is similar to bingo). We eat a lot of diferents candies. The 6th of January we celebrate the Three Wise men, they were the three kings who took presents to Jesus when he was born. In 6th of January they bring us a lot of presents. They arrive in a parade on the 5th. In spain we receive presents twice, and it isn’t so cold here.

A Nativity scene.

Alejandro.