CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

NURIA ROJAS AND EVA SEGOVIA

INDEX

- Religious activities.- Food.- Traditions.- Presents.- Other.

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES•The 12 of december they celebrate Virgen del Guadalupe.• The 25 of december they celebrate christmas.

FOODThey eat a lot of things like turkey, tamales, churros with chocolate, cake, christmas salad, rice and other things.

PRESENTS

The 25 of december they celebrate Santa Claus and they do the secret friend.

TRADITIONS• Before of 25 of december they celebrate posada, it’s a small celebration, this day they celebrate when Mary and Joseph were searching lodging.• The 25 of december they have a piñata.

OTHERThey do a lot of decorations, and they makecompetitions about the decorations, they do the manger too but they called “nacimientos”, and they throw fireworks called cuetes.

COMPARATIONS• We don’t celebrate la Virgen del Guadalupe.• They eat a lot of things that in Spain we don’t have.• They celebrate the posada.• We don’t do the piñata.

COMPARATIONS

• They do the secret friend, and in Spain we do it sometimes.• They don’t celebrate wise man.• We don’t do competitions of decorations.• They throw fireworks, but we throw it in summer not for christmas.