god has it only been 4 days in site since thankgiving? time moves so sloooowwwwwly here

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I won´t be listening to my English language Christmas music here. It makes me too homesick. I love the holidays. Love fall. Love the time from Halloween through Christmas. And pretending like I can celebrate it here, or that it can in any way compare, just isn´t possible.

No, I listen to my sister´s, henceforth known as Eyebrows as she has a fairly severe face and a set of eyebrows that are hard to forget, Christmas CD in Spanish and haven´t even asked if the kids believe in Santa here. I don´t really want to hear ¨no¨.

Ask no questions, I´ll hear no lies.

.... Which is not exactly how it´s supposed to work, as a PCV.... but I´ve always been better at watching and listening.

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Comments

[Ben]

Christmas
I thought the only Latin American group that does not believe in christmas are those in the Jehovah's Witnesses religion (They are called Testigos de Jehova). So if your host family is Catholic then they for sure believe in Christmas, However economical condition might be the reason why they dont to ornaments and stuff in their house. You know Cristmas is a very expensive time of the year here in USA and even worst in Nicaragua. This could be an good opportunity for you to have a cultural exchange with them by showing them a little of your christmas something simple like putting up a little christmas tree in the house or maybe baking a pie for them. They would appreciate that. Anything you do just try to enjoy it as much as you can. Happy holidays, hopefully you dont mind me reading your blogs and leaving you notes :)

[mbaade]

christmas in nica
ben - yes, they celebrate christmas here. and my family has a tree and lights on the house, but it´s not the same as at home, which is what i mean by ¨if i can´t celebrate...¨ because it´s hard being abroad for the holidays. and i would LOVE to bake a pie, if only anyone in my community had an oven.... and of course i don´t mind that you read and comment - if i didn´t want it public it wouldn´t be on a blog, verdad?