Christmas Day // El día de Navidad

Hi!

As I told you yesterday, today is Christmas. Me and my family go to have lunch with my grandfathers every year at this day. My grandmother always prepares a lot of food.

First of all, she prepares some plates that we call "la picaeta". It is the food we eat before eating the main course, the starters. There were a lot of things today: cheese, cured ham, "papas", almonds and a big salad with lots of ingredients.

After that she has served prawns and then the meat that she cooked for today. It was really delicious, but all the food my grandmother cooks is always delicious!

The dessert has been a fruit salad (that I haven't eaten because I don't like it) and a great variety of "turrón": chocolate, hard, soft, with almonds... and also marzipans and a walnut pie that my grandmother always cooks for this day. In short, a lot of food!!

Almost everybody is used to eat too much at Christmas. We eat until we can't ingest another piece of "turrón".

But the problem of these days and also the controversia of Christmas is that everything seems to be perfect and peaceful. People are friendly with everybody and love is everywhere. But that is only a facade or a role that we all play because also these days of the year there are poor people and wars and destitution. And people that don't have a family or a home to share with their loved ones.

We shouldn't eat that big quantities of food and think a bit more in the one's that don't have anything to eat. And also we shouldn't leave all this peace and love and fraternity only for Christmas. We should make use of it everyday of the year.