Thursday, August 15, 2013

New Year's Eve


When I was a child, I celebrated New Year's Eve with all my family. Some days before the celebration, my family saved money to buy a pig, drinks, and things like that. We waited for this day anxiously. That day in the morning, they killed the pig and they prepared the food for the following days. In the afternoon, all of us went out to the street to throw corn flour on each other. After that, we went to change our clothes, and at night we got together outside to eat, dance and shout for joy because of the New Year. At midnight, we also said good bye to the old year by burning dummies on big bonfires. Other families around our house celebrated in the same way.
 
 Nowadays, New Year is not celebrated as it was before. Families aren’t as united as in the past. Nowadays, only some families come together to celebrate and share. People say good bye to the old year away from home, in clubs and bars with their friends. Only a few people continue some traditions, such as eating 12 grapes, wearing red or yellow underwear, first congratulate the family, and stuff like that.
 
 I think that in the future, people are going to forget traditions and families are not going to get together. People are just going to want to go out and be with friends. They are not going to burn dummies. They are not going to eat grapes, ask for wishes, or wear specific-color underwear. People are going to forget the magic of the New Year’s celebration which is really to celebrate in family .
 
By: Ana Carolina Vallejo.

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