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Christmas in East Africa<br />
We like to call this day Family day!! We invite family members<br />
and relatives eat together. Especially kids-let them enjoy cutting<br />
cake with the little kids!<br />
Smiling faces to others, helping, some gifts and shopping.<br />
Including a lot of concert either churches or other performer.<br />
Lots of hand shaking and hugs.<br />
Kids dressed like angels, and moms in cultural clothes.<br />
A lot of rain…lots of water so they couldn’t walk or drive because<br />
of water everywhere.<br />
And many people went to church at Christmas time, the believers<br />
or not believer went to church!<br />
Christmas Eve day the celebration is small, but at midnight it is a<br />
big celebration.<br />
At midnight on the Radio they have sound of newborn crying<br />
to announce Jesus birth. And also a Christmas song. Kids and<br />
family waiting for Baby cry and then they start wishing everyone<br />
a Merry Christmas messages, phone calls. They also call the<br />
Radio to wish people Merry Christmas messages. This is East<br />
Africa.<br />
This woman is from East Africa and has been in Canada for almost 5<br />
years<br />
Christmas in Columbia /<br />
Ecuador<br />
A few memories from Marlin Segura-<br />
Colombia/Ecuador<br />
In Colombia and Ecuador turkey is<br />
eaten on Christmas Eve and sing<br />
Christmas Carols. We remember Jesus<br />
birth.<br />
If a family does not have close family,<br />
friend then invited him to our house. It<br />
is abit sad because I have my parents<br />
and many loved ones lost to me<br />
because of the war in my country. I<br />
remember a lot of my family and friends<br />
in this time of Christmas.<br />
Daughter Alexa says she remembers<br />
time spent with family eating turkey.<br />
The last day of the year was time spent<br />
with family/friends and lots of fireworks.<br />
Marlin and her family fled their home<br />
country as refugees. They have been in<br />
Canada for almost two years<br />
Christmas in Venezuela<br />
This is like a video that comes to my mind just before Christmas,<br />
I try to express in few words.<br />
Christmas for me nowadays is the enjoy that we as a family can<br />
get.<br />
But I have to recognize than inside me are those great moments<br />
experienced as a child back in Venezuela, those memories about in<br />
a safety society where all child got awaked early morning 3-4 a.m.<br />
to take the streets with their skates, rollers, bikes or simply walk out<br />
to express our happiness about Christmas time, playing and singing,<br />
but just before 5 am all of us hurry up to get the church for have some<br />
hot chocolate and of course, attend the mass<br />
Pedro López Méndez<br />
Pedro has been in Canada for 3 and a half years.<br />
www.gomission.ca November / December 2015, Volume 52, Number 6 The Recorder 7
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