Now that all the fuss is over, do I sometimes cover a round about Christmas in Ecuador.
As often said, and repeatedly emphasized and verified in the experience of other volunteers, you can find in Ecuador absolutely no Christmas spirit. It starts with the Christmas tree that is full hung so incredibly kitsch that it almost running away is going to continue with decorated with lights networks palms that beep loudly English Christmas songs and hear yourself on at this very Christmas songs that sound not at all a safe Christmas . Listen only time the "Belen" an ...
The whole thing could perhaps be overlooked with a little self-deception, if the weather would at least play along. But in bright sunshine, in a T-shirt the sweat on the forehead - I'm sorry, that's all but not Christmas.
opposed to the stand but the many traditions that are celebrated here. Overall, Christmas is much more chaotic but more planned than in Germany. What sounds like a contradiction, create the Ecuadorians as follows:
Everyone knows what needs to be done and everyone knows when to be where, with whom true, but with the incredible scheduled nature, which places here as well as anyone the day is out this knowledge is not planned or prepared, but everything turns out as it all depends.
Two minutes before the show starts in 10 minutes from the church, is pushed at once a terrible stress, even take a shower and started to move, which is mostly everything implemented only half is to take more then just the Lord's Supper in the Church and to go back home. Also in
colegio. The
each course is a Novena, a live nativity scene must therefore show, is actually the whole year known. However, the preparations begin for the well-organized teachers a week in advance, Diego on the other side wanted to rehearse with a price and our help, a song and came up with the idea of exactly one day before the show.
The Christmas in the family was against it, apart from the true and correct the "hora Ecuatoriana", literally planned and prepared. As the women for food were divided, the men drove the mandatory Cerveza now and preparing the premises, and - you can hardly believe it - in the end we had a ADAPTED space, enough to eat and drink and were able to celebrate Christmas without further ado. This, however, was quite different from when at home, namely in the afternoon. Also the whole family was gathered in just one day new to me - even my uncle had come from Peru - then there was the obligatory speeches, which are extended on Christmas but on the entire adult family, in which God was praised and then mainly are the children had to earn their Weihnachtssüßsigkeiten still performed songs. The call to sing a Christmas song in German, but unfortunately I had to refuse.
was then eaten till you drop, and finally by Blanca, good Christmas Fairy, distributed the gifts. Here, the limited gifts for the adults, however, on greeting cards, possibly with some money, but on the other hand, the children were showered with toys.
After the mess the time with dancing, drinking, dancing competitions and games for children was beaten to death - where the children could not play. Such was the attraction of the day the "musical chairs", but these were played entirely without rules, and I suspect that I lost because I simply do not apply after the game ends again at was mixed. was
Completed and finished the Christmas party Lucanos, the father's family, then a football game, in which the destroying tio Pedro the meniscus and that we went over to volleyball.
After the whole family was gone, we headed to another part of the family, the parents of Mary. Here we expected only the two grandparents, but after the selbstgepanschte of Abuelito Paco mead had appeared on the table, was this round more fun and longer, which I should make it difficult to wake up, I am on the next day with my cousins visit "Casa del Terror" had arranged ...
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