December by andal13
December is not only the last month of the year; for us, is THE month... Everybody knows there are three marked days during December: Christmas Eve (Nochebuena that means "Good Night"), Christmas (Navidad) and New Year's Eve (Fin de Año, that means "End of the Year"). It does not matter if a person is a christian or not; everybody fetes, because we must give off the year. During December, we have several parties with friends, fellow workers, relatives, neighbours... just to say "good bye" to the old year, and wish a better new one. All this means that we have three or five or ten parties (usually at a bar or at a restaurant) where we eat and drink as if that was the end of the world.If we are still alive at December 24th, we have the dinner of Nochebuena with our family (that means parents, sisters, brothers, husband or wife, children, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, mother-in-law, whoever); it never begins before 10 PM, and it usually starts with few appetizers (potato chips, olives, cheese, peanuts, salami, sandwiches, pizza, etc...) with some beer, whisky, wine, vermouth or even a soda; then, it comes the real dinner: roast (or pork or turkey or chicken) with salads, and finally, the desserts (fruit salad, icecream, them both...) But it is Christmas' time, so we must have walnuts, hazelnuts, pudding, turrones... and champagne, of course!!! At 12 o'clock, we go out to see the fireworks, to kiss everybody and to wish "¡Feliz Navidad!", and the children go to look for the presents that Papá Noel leaves under the tree. After all, we go to bed, or do the washing-up, or go to a dicotheque!!!
If you feel like a pig, do not mind!!! Tomorrow (actually, today) is Christmas, so we have Christmas' lunch!!!!
And, next week... New Year's Eve dinner, and New Year's lunch!!!!!
Oh... I forgot... all this happens during summertime!!!
