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My best moment at Christmas This was my best moment of that day and it's
one of my favourite New Year's Eves
I'm going to tell you
memories.
my favourite moment
at Christmas. Leyre Salvador
It is a very important My best moment at Christmas
moment for me. I
always have a very
good time on these
days and I am always
very happy, but at the
same time I am a bit
sad. Now you will
know why.
My favourite day at Christmas time is New
Year's Eve, but exactly, my best moment on
this day is when we finish the year and we
are about to start the next. That is at twelve
o'clock at night of the last day of the year
and I like it very much. Although this is a
happy moment, it's sad too because we leave
a year that has given us good and bad times,
as it must be, but it will never return.
Now I'm going to tell you what I do this day:
This Christmas time has been wonderful, as
My family and me always go a few days
all the years.
before New Year's Eve to the supermarket to
buy food for that night. We buy a lot of food, I have had a lot of good moments with my
because every year that day we are a lot of family, friends... But there are some of them
people in my home: my grandparents, two of that I won’t forget, although I don’t know
my aunts and their husbands with their two which was the best one.
sons, my four cousins, my parents, my Maybe when I arrived in Sangüesa, my
younger brother and finally, me. village, on Christmas´ Eve and I saw all my
Now I am going to tell you about this year. family: my aunts, uncles, cousins,
In the afternoon I helped my parents to grandparents... Some of them live very far
prepare the dinner from five to eight, when from here and I can only see them at
the dinner guests came. We were having Christmas. We started to kiss one another
dinner very happily when suddenly, we saw and talk about us and what had happened in
the hour: it was ten to twelve. In only ten the last year. We had a very good time that
minutes we were going to change year and night.
we were only in the second course of the Another fantastic moment was on New
dinner. We put quickly twelve grapes on Year’s Eve. The dinner was very tasty and
each plate and we turned on the TV. I ate after that we ate the grapes to celebrate the
mandarin segments instead of grapes, New Year, although I couldn’t finish all of
because I every year choke with the seeds of them. Then, we put the music and we started
the grapes. When it was twelve o'clock we to dance and sing Christmas carols. It was
threw confetti and spirals ribbons to very funny.
celebrate the New Year. After that, we got
masks, wigs,...and we inflated many globes. Those were the best two moments of this
We took a lot of photos and we sang a lot of Christmas!
songs. Naiara Irigoyen
CHRISTMAS TIME & BEST MOMENTS AT CHRISTMAS
to Pamplona at seven in the evening by bus, relax of the abundant exams and the long
we saw the cavalcade of Olentzero and, first quarter of the long course that we have
when it finished, we went down to Burlada to pass.
walking because the bus was jammed and it At Christmas my family come to my house
was almost impossible to get on it. to have dinner, all of it! My aunts, my uncles
When I arrived in Burlada I went with my and my cousins, and that is fantastic because
father, my sister, my mum and a friend of they are very funny and we enjoy it a lot.
my parents to a bar near my house to drink My mother is who makes the dinner,
something. Me only soft drinks, of course!! frequently meat and fish, and I and my sister
At nine o'clock we went to our house and María set the table, and then we have dinner.
had lots of presents. There were presents that I also put the Christmas ornaments with my
I was not expecting, I liked them a lot. family in all the house, and at the end it is
very beautiful. We put the crib in the hall
I opened the presents and there was a Puma
and the Christmas tree in the living room.
sports sweatshirt of rams 23, the game ‘Al
But we don’t sing any Christmas song
pie de la letra’, the sims 2 game for the
because here in Spain there aren’t a lot of
computer, two jackets, two shirts and a pink
good singers.
phone, I loved all of them.
In my family we don’t make Christmas
My sister and my parents also had many
cards, we only make presents, but good
presents.
presents, they can be very expensive and are
At ten o’clock I went to the home of my very special. I think that they aren’t the most
uncles and my cousin, there was also the important of the Christmas time as some
aunt of my father, she is Andrea. My uncle guys think, I think that it’s the family
gave me money to buy something. We gathering, but the presents aren’t bad… He,
dinned together and we had a great time. He, He.
Josune Ciriza The best present that I have ever received for
Christmas is a kind of Teddy bear that
“Santa Claus” gave me when I was a child.
Christmas time! Actually, it was a beautiful and enormous
dog that I called Santa, but one day my
sister, who was angry at me, broke it with a
knife.
We organise the invisible friend at home on
6th of January, it is very exciting because
your present is a surprise and your invisible
friend too, it is fantastic! I love it!
So this is Christmas in Spain, at least in my
house, and I hope that you like it, for me it
is a fantastic Christmas!
Bye!
Your Spanish friend
Hello Primitivo,
Alberto Aragón
I’m going to tell you about my fantastic
Christmas that I have here, in Spain, and
about things linking with it.
All the years when Christmas arrive, we are
very nervous because all of we were waiting
a lot of time to it and it is a fantastic time to
CHRISTMAS TIME & BEST MOMENTS AT CHRISTMAS
The best moment at christmas Then we all were sitting down on the floor,
the chairs and in the sofa: Leire, Claudia,
For me, the best moment in this Christmas is
Josune, Nerea, Marina.T, Marina.P, Amaia,
really difficult to
Silvia, Itziar, Maitane, Edurne, Irene and I,
choose, because I
and we started to give the presents with
had a lot of great
Irene’s little sister, Marina´s help. As ever,
moments...
she started with the presents distribution.
At first I wanted
When everyone had her present, we opened
to write about an
it and I think that is the first time that
afternoon in
everydody was happy with her present.
Pamplona with
Claudia, Nerea Then we ate the chips and drank the coca
and Leire, some cola and played "Tabú" again and we helped
friends, when we to clear Irene’s home.
went to see how I think that this is the best moment at
shop windows looked at Christmas and then Christmas because in my friends team we’re
we ate hot chocolate in Estafeta street... always arguing. That day was the best not
But there’s a moment that I prefer: the for the presents, it was the best because we
invisible friend at Irene’s home. were all of us closer and we didn’t argue.
In the middle of November we (my friends We remembered that we are really good
and I) distributed the papers to make the friends.
invisible friend. We were very nervous
because at first we didn’t know what to buy,
for this reason we distributed the papers one The best moment at Christmas
month before. Christmas of 2009-10 have been great, all
We were very excited and for me it was very the days the family was united and happy.
difficult to choose Loire’s presents, but The best moment at Christmas was on 24th
finally I foud the perfect present (with of December, it’s the day of my birthday so I
Marina and Irene’s help) had a lot of presents.
Finally the invisible friend day arrived. We At 8 o’clock we went to my grandparents´
celebrated it on 29th of December at Irene’s home and we waited at the table to start the
home, like last year, because she has a really dinner.
big house and when we are on the last floor
we don’t disturb her parents. When all was ready and my grandmother
was on her chair -she was all the night in the
So we arrived at her home and we prepared kitchen working-, she said the grace over the
the things to eat, like the chips, and the food and all the family started to eat.
drinks. When all was prepared we had to
wait for Marina Tiscar, because she was There was a lot of food, so nobody could eat
doing something with her horse, so we the dessert. When we finished all the dinner
started playing "Tabú" until she arrived. my grandmother and my uncle sang typical
Christmas carols with the piano.
The "Tabú" was really funny: in pairs you
must take a card with four words, then you Finally all the family was singing. It was a
must choose one of them and you say other very beautiful moment.
words and your partner’s work is to get right Leyre Asurmendi
the word. But you have a fixed time and
some other words that you can’t say.
We laughed a lot, and we had a nice time
until Marina arrived.
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