We do not have a white Christmas, where there are currently many thunderstorms and even in the capital Quito it rains more than normal this time of year. But Christmas is celebrated around the world and also the commercial the holidays has a firm grip. Everywhere lurks Santa Claus, reindeer and lights everywhere in China is flashing, colorful lights on the windows and trees. But the party is not sentimental, even though gifts in demand everywhere. In one week we celebrated
Christmas with our Indian community in Mondayacu. It was a welcome opportunity to reconnect as a community to move together. There was a time of common cooking and eating, but also with many games, betting games, balloons, sack races and egg and spoon race. This makes always a pleasure, not just the children. In the evening we celebrated the Christmas service with a theatrical experience of the children and youth. A superbly played devil, so diabolical laugh has shot out of the darkness frightens not only children. The sermon has less fettered. And then the eating of half the village were all waiting for Gifts: Several bags of candy and cookies. The Sunday after that you still do not realize that people were recorded spiritually.
for us too in the hospital is not a very merry Christmas celebration. While all always emphasize the spiritual component, but is celebrated differently in Germany: We had a great celebration with festive food and art Performance of the various groups. The next afternoon, there were presents for the staff and the choice of the Christmas King and Queen of Christmas. With a lot of theater, the election was announced, introduced the candidates who then held a short commercial speech. A jury has been ordered and implemented the elect festive with a real rant. That is an opportunity and the personal statement, to be lifted up in which, as in Germany at carnivals, individual persons. All know, and so sure sometimes reduced tensions in the workforce. Then again, a plentiful food and the usual gifts that are in this country for Christmas for the national staff There. This is part of the patronage to old system in which the CEO has to personally provide for many needs of its employees. Here, as there is
celebrated Christmas, but the sentimental largely absent in Germany. During the period in which one in Germany, the first verse of "Oh you happy ..." has sung, we are done in Ecuador, even with the third verse (because the rhythm is much faster). But the commercialism associated with Christmas is as much as anywhere else in the world. The advertising industry is flourishing. In Quito, in the last two weeks before the party where the blocked roads around the shopping centers because of local congestion paralyzed the city. And two changes the creep silently:
Most calendars in Ecuador since the start as he is 70-years ago in Germany by Monday on how far the Bible Sunday and often have vanished: Merry Christmas, "but" happy holidays "or" Happy holidays ".. Such requests are known from the Islamic world for many years, and I conclude with" Season Greetings. "- from Ecuador, the world will be more like
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