Qué onda! How are you?  I am very busy at school preparing for exams and practicing Christmas songs for our Posada.   Every year we have a posada on the last day of school before Christmas vacations.  

Everybody attends, parents, teachers, brothers, sisters, friends, and grandparents.  

The celebration begins at 8:00 P.M.  You really have to go abrigado, wrapped up, because it can get very cold!

First the small children, like my sister, sing villancicos, traditional Christmas songs. They dress up like shepherds and look really cute.

Then the kids of grammar school sing Christmas songs in English and in Spanish. I am going to sing John Lennon’s Imagine.

When we finish, it is time to see the Pastorela that every year the 6^th grade kids prepare.

It is usually very funny. Some of them dress up as devils that don’t want the shepherds to go and visit Baby Jesus. Of course, they always fail! The sixth grade students write the Pastorela themselves.

 Later there is a slide show about some special theme. This time I think it will be honoring t a schoolmate, Ian, who passed away last year from cancer. We all miss him.

 At the very end, we have a spectacular ritual. It is called the Ritual of Light.  Since this is the last Christmas that the sixth grade students will be with us, each of them lights up a special candle.  All of the adults attending the Posada, are given a candle, which can only be lighted with the candle of one of the sixth graders.  When all of the candles are lighted, they are elevated to the sky.  It is like a farewell and good luck to the students that are leaving.  They are the ones “illuminating” our world.

 Then, we all go to the food stands where there are sweet and mole tamales, ponche, buñuelos, chocolate caliente.  Uuuuhm!

 You must be thinking, “And the piñata?”  Well, we make our own piñatas. Every class makes one a couple of weeks earlier  and we break them the same day that the posada is held, but in the morning so we have TWO wonderful fiestas!

 Feliz Navidad to all of you!

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