Navidad

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Last night we returned to the house and (almost) midnight we had christmas dinner. I guess they celebrate the night before here. Most of the fam was over at my house and we ate, said merry Christmas although we were all a little preoccupied and didn’t find the chirstmas to be very merry. My friend (12 years old) Olartia slept over at my house last night. I don’t know if it was because she was scared (which she slept over when tia Amelia died too) or because she knew I would be alone for christmas. Either way it was a nice little sleepover we just hung out and in the morning made breakfast and milkshakes. I’m just trying to find the right time to give my fam their gifts. Tragedy

I slept most of the afternoon. I didn’t want to go to all of the funerals or be around the people as they were mourning, it was just too sad for me. However around 5pm I gave my fam their gifts and they seemed to enjoy them. “?!Que? Eres papa noel??”
Leyla—a hammock. She was using mine and then when I moved I took it so I got her a new one
Estefania—a shower kit with sponges and stuff and some yummy smelling lotion
Ambar—shes a cook and always makes pizza so I got her a pizza cutter (the circle that rolls) and a rolling pin and a little table you can carry the pizza around. I also got Adriano a little onsie)
Rimber—leylas brother from spain arrived a few weeks ago and we’ve really hit it off..hes super hilarious and living in the house so I figured I’d get him a gift too. I wanted to get him a little toy boat because every other thing he says is “viene en el barco!” or when it comes in the boat… or when the boat comes it will have this and that. He is always referring to this boat and what it contains (the boat with all his things from spain). I wanted to write on it “oh, your gift is coming on the boat!” but then I couldn’t find a boat and I saw some board shorts—like a bathing suit. And he has horrible style and always wears these bathing suit shorts all the time (he must have like 6 pairs) so I got him another pair as a joke “because you always seem like youre going to the beach!!”

When I asked my neighbor kids what they did today (after my nap) they said “nada” and I said well did you get anything for xmas and they said nope because their mom doesn’t have money (which is true) so I took them out and told them they had $1 each and could choose anything from the town they wanted. Francisco got a little army man and Valesca got a diary with a lock on it—it costed $3 but because her brother gave the few cents he had left of his dollar to donate to her gift I paid the extra money. Plus I remember when I got my first diary with a lock on it…I think it was a Pocahontas one for easter hahah.

It was fun and it felt good to give gifts. Even though they don’t really do that here. I ran into a bunch of my friends on my way to get shantonu his gift (just a bunch of candy…nothing serious) and when I said I was on my way to buy a gift for san Antonio (they cant pronounce his name) they were all like ‘oh for what? Is it his birthday?’ all of them.. I was like no….its christmas.