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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:25 pm
Do you celebrate Christmas, and if so, how? If not, how do you usually spend the day off from school/work, if you have one where you live?
I celebrate it secularly, as a family get together holiday, as well as participating in Gaia's event. I like most Christmas traditions, from singing Christmas carols, to decorating a tree, watching Christmas specials, and the warm and fuzzy feeling I get during that time of year.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:31 pm
Secular for me. Most of my family is religious, but there are the few of us that just participate in the get-together and the gift giving part. Not going to be much in the way of gift-giving this year, though sad
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:46 pm
I celebrate it secularly and religiously.
Secularly, I like the gift giving, decorating, and Christmas specials.
Religiously, I try to be a bit more charitable and kinder during this season. Also if I can, I attend Christmas Mass. This is also the time of the year when I start focusing on interpretations of some of the beginning parts of the Christ mythos.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:58 pm
Secular Eksmas, religious Solstice ^_^
Day off? Dear friend, four weeks is the standard here wink At the very least you get Xmas and Boxing Day, and then the two days for New Years a week later.
Everyone drinks a lot of bubbly with strawberries in it - the first bottle is opened with the flan, croissants or French toast you have for breakfast and new bottles are opened throughout the day to keep you in a pleasant state of tipsiness. For lunch or dinner, usually in the early afternoon, everyone eats stuffing wrapped in bacon, turkey, and ham, with salad and like three types of potatoes. Then we have pavlova, Christmas pud, and ice cream for desert and go and sit on the deck for the next five hours. If you get hungry, you can have turkey and stuffing sandwiches in the evening, and the next day, bubble and squeak for breakfast.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:37 am
We have some free days and there's the usual stuff like Christmas tree, decorations, special meals, presents, visits...
I don't like Christmas so much because of the crazy and spending - in many cases unneeded but it's considered an obligation.
I am not very fond of Christmas decorations either.
It's funny cause I'm in El Salvador where it's always warm, but in shops you can get lots of snow/winter themed Christmas decorations. This country has been influenced by the US a lot and so it's like people thing that the "right" version of Christmas is the US way, with Santa Claus and wintery stuff.
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