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How do you celebrate your Christmas?

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downundergal Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 12936 Posts: 221 Posted: 2005-12-21 23:06:00    Hi Globies, Merry Christmas to everyone! Because we come from all parts of the world I thought it would be interesting to hear how some of our members spend their Christmas? For me, because I live in Oz and it is summer and 35 degrees celcius we generally head out for lunch on the 25th to a picnic spot on the ocean to meet up with some of the family and have a feast of prawns, turkey, salads, plum pudding, pavlova and then maybe go for a swim afterwards (& try not to sink from all the food). We then meet up with friends after and go for a swim in their pool. What do you do? Kerrie --- Where to next? Reply    Reply with quote    Contact downundergal   mistybleu Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 53340 Posts: 245 Posted: 2005-12-22 01:51:00    Hey Kerrie, Season's Greetings to all.... What a lovely forum topic, I hope members participate. For me I go to the Caribbean (Trindad & Tobago) for Christmas, at first I found this a little strange as growing up in the UK winter was synonymous with Christmas, now I like it hot, hot, hot. Building up to Christmas the locals listen to Parang (Spanish carols). They paint the out/inside of their homes and clean up the grounds so that everything looks fresh. Then on Christmas Eve, they add the final touches, change curtains and put up the Christmas decorations, whilst baking bread and roasting ham. When we get up on Christmas morning the house looks so special and the smells permeates throughout. We usually go to church for 6am and then have a big breakfast when we return, finally we then go visiting friends, where they serve more ham, Christmas cake and drink sorrel or ginger beer. My bit of English tradition is that we dine around 8pm by candlelight, whilst most locals will have lunch. Amanda --- "So many places, so little time" ((*_*)) Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mistybleu   ravinderkumarsi Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 14003 Posts: 451 Posted: 2005-12-22 05:13:00    well I just visit a close friend of mine every year for Cristmas celebration . --- at bangalore /back 2 globo after a long Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ravinderkumarsi   picu Premium account Joined: Dec 05 Points: 1005 Posts: 5 Posted: 2005-12-22 21:44:00    Fun topic Kerrie! It is going to be a different Christmas for me this year, because I am going to celebrate it in Malta for the first time. Although I have lived for almost three years in Malta, I have always spent Christmas in my snowy hometown in Finland. I have to admit it is a bit difficult to find the Christmas spirit without the snow, but at the same time it is nice with some warm sun. Christmas is quite commercial here, with lots of lights and Christmas carols from loadspeakers in the streets. We are going to spend both Christmas evening and Christmas day on the small island Gozo, which is much less crowded and more relaxed than the main island of Malta. Hopefully the weather will be good, so we can spend a lot of time wandering around in the countryside. Probably we will also eat a typical Maltese dinner with turkey, and on Christmas eve we will go to the midnight mass. Malin --- Picu Reply    Reply with quote    Contact picu   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2005-12-23 07:42:00    ... when I lived in Africa our family and a few guests would have a feast of a meal on Christmas eve, nothing expensive, but always the best every year. After that we kids (or in later years our kids) and the adults would enter a previously locked room after hearing strange noises outside to discover wrapped presents/gifts around a candlelitten pine tree ( the smell is unique) and to carol music comming from the old player. After paper flying colourfully around the room to joyfull cries and enthusiastic comparisons, when the frenzy deid down aprouching mid-night we attended mass at the local church together with the community and neighbours. On Christmas day we feast again at mid-day (usually outside, being summer there) and enjoy a sportfull day with friends and relations, visiting or telephoning expensively worldwide. This is much the bavarian routine in Germany too exept usually with a lot of snow (like this year) and "gluwein", hot spicy red wine! We also now check/respond to email too! I have also experienced Christmas during four different camping/hiking excursions with family or friends: different! Also, with a 15 member student tour group in 1988 in the small town of Cabo Frio (Brazil) where locals sing carols in portugese at the town square, we sung them a few in english, they loved it! Rudi [ This Message was edited by: rangutan on 2005-12-23 11:30 ] --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan