Felice Navidad

Merry Christmas, 6 more days until the big day when all the malls stop playing christmas music, hoooraaay!! I don´t mind christmas music believe it or not, but it is difficult when it´s in spanish. The songs just don´t flow properly. Even that one song...Fa la la la la, they say something different. Don´t get me wrong, i´m not complaining. Every year back home in Penticton my cousins and everyone gathers at my aunts house to sing christmas carols and eat, and eat some more. It has been a tradition since i can remember. I usually go downstairs to sing...and play video games. But you can´t go wrong with home made christmas goodies.

Debbie and I recently bought a stove/oven from a friend at work for 300 pesos. Debbie is really excited about it. I am extremely excited to get some good homemade cookies, cakes, muffins, etc. We probably won´t have time to make any xmas cookies but maybe. They have a different tradition down here for christmas. They do the whole celebration of guadaloopa for the first part of december, then after the 12th the parties start. Everyone gathers with their friends any night of the week. Drinks are had, as well as merry times i´m sure. The piñata is also a traditional thing around this time, from what Debbie´s mom tells me the piñata usually has 7 points. The 7 points representing the 7 deadly sins and the piñata representing the devil. While hitting the piñata this rhyme is sung:

Dale, dale, dale,
No pierdas el tino
Porque si lo pierdes
pierdes el camino.
Dale, dale, dale
Dale y no le dio
Quítenle la prenda
¡Porque sigo yo!!
¡Se Acabó!
¡Sigo yo!

which translates as:
Hit it, hit it, hit it (or Go, go, go)
Don't lose your aim
Because if you lose it (your aim)
You will lose the path.
Hit it, hit it, hit it (or Go, go, go)
Hit it, He didn't hit it
Take away his token
Because it's now my turn!
It's Over!

So ya, we are going to hit the piñata and eat a bunch of seafood on christmas eve, and also drinking some punch. Probably be playing some video games with Debbie´s step dad Ruben as well. I bought him 5 xbox games for 150 pesos for xmas.

Here´s a nice xmas joke:

Hypothetic And Realistic>> A little boy came home from school and his homework assignment >>was to find out what the difference was between hypothetically and >>realistically... so he asked his dad.>>>>His dad said, "Well, go ask your mom if she would sleep with the >>mail man for $1,000,000.>>>>He went and asked and came back and said, "She said yes".>>>>"Well", said the dad, "Go ask your sister the same question.">>>>He did and came back and said,>>"She said yes.">>>>And the dad said, "Now go ask your brother the same thing.">>>>He did and came back and said, "He said yes too!">>>>And the dad said, "Well hypothetically we're sitting on three >>million dollars, realistically we're living with 2 whores and a >>fag!

Happy Holidays!