CHRISTMAS TIME & BEST MOMENTS AT CHRISTMAS

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
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The best moment of Christmas
I think that the best moment of Christmas
time is when all the family join in at home
on New Year’s Eve and, after the dinner,
they eat the grapes and then they dance,
sing…
Last year, at Christmas I was with the family
of my mother in a rural house. On New
Year’s Eve, we joined in the living room and
after the dinner we ate the grapes while we
watched the bell striking the 12 peals and the
New Year started. Then we started to sing
and dance and we played different games.
This year I’m going to go to other rural
house with the family of my mother on New
Year’s Eve and I think it’s going to be very
funny.
Amaia Garacochea
The best moment at Christmas time
Hi!!
At Christmas
time there are a
lot of good
moments but the
best for me was
on the 5th of
January, during
the Three Wise
Men’s parade. I
participated in it
so I’m going to
tell you why I liked it.
I have participated in it other times but all of
them I participated playing the trumpet but
this year was different, I participated riding
on a carriage with two more friends. We
were in the Saba Queen’s float and we threw
sweets to all the children that were in the
streets of Burlada and we threw confetti too.
All the time during the parade we were
sitting. All children and their parents asked
for sweets and we gave them and
immediately there was a smile on their faces.
Friends at the school and friends that I meet
on the street were also asking for sweets and
confetti to throw at them.
It was a happy moment because all of the
people (young people) were very happy
shouting at the kings. Melchor, Gaspar and
Baltasar and asking for sweets.
When the parade finished we went very
quickly to change clothes and went to
Melchor’s carriage and on it we went to
Hilarion Eslava’s sports center where our
parents were waiting for us.
It was the best moment at Christmas and the
happiest too.
Edurne Urricelqui Goñi
The best moment at Christmas
Let me tell you
about my best
moment at
Christmas.
The day of
Christmas Eve I
went to Pamplona
with my father and
my sister to see the
cavalcade of the
Olentzero. We went
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to Pamplona at seven in the evening by bus,
we saw the cavalcade of Olentzero and,
when it finished, we went down to Burlada
walking because the bus was jammed and it
was almost impossible to get on it.
When I arrived in Burlada I went with my
father, my sister, my mum and a friend of
my parents to a bar near my house to drink
something. Me only soft drinks, of course!!
At nine o'clock we went to our house and
had lots of presents. There were presents that
I was not expecting, I liked them a lot.
I opened the presents and there was a Puma
sports sweatshirt of rams 23, the game ‘Al
pie de la letra’, the sims 2 game for the
computer, two jackets, two shirts and a pink
phone, I loved all of them.
My sister and my parents also had many
presents.
At ten o’clock I went to the home of my
uncles and my cousin, there was also the
aunt of my father, she is Andrea. My uncle
gave me money to buy something. We
dinned together and we had a great time.
Josune Ciriza
Christmas time!
Hello Primitivo,
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
relax of the abundant exams and the long
first quarter of the long course that we have
to pass.
At Christmas my family come to my house
to have dinner, all of it! My aunts, my uncles
and my cousins, and that is fantastic because
they are very funny and we enjoy it a lot.
My mother is who makes the dinner,
frequently meat and fish, and I and my sister
María set the table, and then we have dinner.
I also put the Christmas ornaments with my
family in all the house, and at the end it is
very beautiful. We put the crib in the hall
and the Christmas tree in the living room.
But we don’t sing any Christmas song
because here in Spain there aren’t a lot of
good singers.
In my family we don’t make Christmas
cards, we only make presents, but good
presents, they can be very expensive and are
very special. I think that they aren’t the most
important of the Christmas time as some
guys think, I think that it’s the family
gathering, but the presents aren’t bad… He,
He, He.
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.
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
Alberto Aragón
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The best moment at christmas
For me, the best moment in this Christmas is
really difficult to
choose, because I
had a lot of great
moments...
At first I wanted
to write about an
afternoon in
Pamplona with
Claudia, Nerea
and Leire, some
friends, when we
went to see how
shop windows looked at Christmas and then
we ate hot chocolate in Estafeta street...
But there’s a moment that I prefer: the
invisible friend at Irene’s home.
In the middle of November we (my friends
and I) distributed the papers to make the
invisible friend. We were very nervous
because at first we didn’t know what to buy,
for this reason we distributed the papers one
month before.
We were very excited and for me it was very
difficult to choose Loire’s presents, but
finally I foud the perfect present (with
Marina and Irene’s help)
Finally the invisible friend day arrived. We
celebrated it on 29th of December at Irene’s
home, like last year, because she has a really
big house and when we are on the last floor
we don’t disturb her parents.
So we arrived at her home and we prepared
the things to eat, like the chips, and the
drinks. When all was prepared we had to
wait for Marina Tiscar, because she was
doing something with her horse, so we
started playing "Tabú" until she arrived.
The "Tabú" was really funny: in pairs you
must take a card with four words, then you
must choose one of them and you say other
words and your partner’s work is to get right
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.
Then we all were sitting down on the floor,
the chairs and in the sofa: Leire, Claudia,
Josune, Nerea, Marina.T, Marina.P, Amaia,
Silvia, Itziar, Maitane, Edurne, Irene and I,
and we started to give the presents with
Irene’s little sister, Marina´s help. As ever,
she started with the presents distribution.
When everyone had her present, we opened
it and I think that is the first time that
everydody was happy with her present.
Then we ate the chips and drank the coca
cola and played "Tabú" again and we helped
to clear Irene’s home.
I think that this is the best moment at
Christmas because in my friends team we’re
always arguing. That day was the best not
for the presents, it was the best because we
were all of us closer and we didn’t argue.
We remembered that we are really good
friends.
The best moment at Christmas
Christmas of 2009-10 have been great, all
the days the family was united and happy.
The best moment at Christmas was on 24th
of December, it’s the day of my birthday so I
had a lot of presents.
At 8 o’clock we went to my grandparents´
home and we waited at the table to start the
dinner.
When all was ready and my grandmother
was on her chair -she was all the night in the
kitchen working-, she said the grace over the
food and all the family started to eat.
There was a lot of food, so nobody could eat
the dessert. When we finished all the dinner
my grandmother and my uncle sang typical
Christmas carols with the piano.
Finally all the family was singing. It was a
very beautiful moment.
Leyre Asurmendi
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Christmas Time decorate it all together.

Christmas is a On Christmas´ Eve, we always go to
wonderful Sangüesa. Both the parents of my mother
celebration in the and the parents of my father live there. So,
end of the year on the 24th of December we have dinner
when we don’t with the family of my father, and on the 25th
have school and we have a meal with the family of my
we can join with mother.
all our family to In enjoy staying in both places and both
celebrate the birth of Jesus (25 of meals are very tasty. But I prefer staying
December). with the family of my father because they
All years, some days before Christmas time live in Vitoria and Tarragona and I hardly
starts, my family and I prepare the Christmas ever see them. My mother’s family live in
tree and the other things of decoration, Navarre and I can see them more often.
because we like it. On New Year’s Eve some of my aunts and
Last year on New Year’s Eve we ate a lot uncles come to my house. My mother
and during the dinner we spoke and at prepared the dinner last year so this year my
twelve o’clock we turned on the TV and we uncle will prepare it. Moreover, he is an
watched the peals while we ate the grapes. excellent chef.
And at Christmas time we always give and After the dinner we eat the grapes to
receive the presents, I like those moments. celebrate the New Year and then we have a
big party.
This year I’m going to go with all my
family, on the side of my mother, to a rural I have had a very good time all the years,
house and we are going to stay there for one and I hope that this year it will be as good as
week, we are going to prepare the decoration the others.
and we are going to eat the grapes on New
Naiara Irigoyen
Year’s Eve and then we are going to dance,
sing…
The rural house is in the north of Navarre Family traditions at Christmas time
and we are going to play in the fronton, walk Hello!!
around the mountain, and play with the
snow. I’m going to talk about
the traditions of my
I like joining with my family because I have family at Christmas
many uncles, cousins, aunts… and I enjoy a time. I like this holiday
lot with them. time because we don’t
I like Christmas time. go to school and
because I do a lot of
Amaia Garacochea things.
One tradition of that I
Christmas time always do is put the
Christmas tree and the crib. When I was
Christmas time is
younger I put them one week before
wonderful. During this
Christmas but now I put them one day before
time all the streets are
Christmas’ Eve or on this same day in the
full of bright lights and
morning. The Christmas tree is very
decoration.
beautiful and under it is where the Three
In my home, we put the Wise Men put the presents on the night of
Christmas tree and we January 5th. The crib hasn’t got a lot of
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things only the Virgin Maria, José, Jesus and

the two animals and the Three Wise Men
who are in other place because the don’t at
the crib until the night of January 5.
Now I am going to talk about the dinner we
celebrate in my house on Christmas’ Eve,
but before it I go to the Olentzero. The
Olentzero is a celebrity of the Basque
Country and Navarre that means that is
Christmas time and he comes down from the
mountain to give us the presents.
The dinner on Christmas’ Day in my uncle’s
house. The dinner on New Years’ Eve is in
my grandparents’ house and it’s there
because is the birthday of my grandfather.
All years before going there I go to
Pamplona to see San Silvestre’s race, it is a
popular race of Pamplona where the people
usually run with a costume. I ran it some
years but the children run without costume.
New Year’s dinner in my house and that’s
all about Christmas dinners.
Other tradition is to participate in the Three
Wise Men parade. I have participated in it
for four or five years. The first time I
participated as a dwarf but the rest of the
years I have participated playing the trumpet.
After the parade some friends join to make a
“supper”.
And these are the traditions of my family at
Christmas.
Edurne Urricelqui Goñi