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Christmas

The last few weeks here in the Hogar was pretty busy. I'm with the girls on the weekends a lot done outside in the garden, dug up and heaped the earth surfaces with uneven.

The girls ...

... and I work in the garden

three times came from outside people to organize for the children's Christmas parties. They saw then usually in a way that it tons of candy, and ice completos was food that there was a lot of dancing and gifts for the children were unpacking. From a friendly woman in the Congregacion the girls a radio and a DVD player have to get paid! Sorry, but there were often such gifts were a couple of hours already broken and lying around somewhere on the site.

Christmas

children at limbo dancing

sister Edesma

three siblings, Margarita, the Oldest of 12 years, Graciela (8) and Cecilia (4) are now newly arrived in the Hogar, as the home where they lived at previously was closed.



also now lives another sister of the Order here in the Congregacion. Her name is Edesma and is expected by mid 70 be. Also it is very nice and if sister Victoria in January returning from their holiday home in Bolivia, living here are 4 sisters.

Christmas

Two days before Christmas, we have then by all children, employees and the three Hermanas celebrated Christmas, as the children over Christmas and the holidays in their own or foster families. We've included a nativity play, sing, eat delicious and of course there was also a mess for the girls.

nativity play

On 23 December it was called then for the girls' clothes to pack and clean up the Hogar, and in the course of the day then all moved away, so I the only one in the Hogar was left behind. The next day, then have all Tias, the other employees and the nurses gathered in the morning for a "cola de mono." Cola de mono is a self-made coffee liqueur, traditionally served at Christmas and very delicious tastes. In addition there was spice cake "Pan de Pascua", a kind, and then the game was "amigo secreto" enlightened. For this, we had the beginning of the Drawn each month a name and it was then his "secret friend", this one could then write the news, to put candy, without any discovered who his "amigo secreto" is. And then just gewichtelt, and each received a gift from his secret friend.
Subsequently, the employees went to their families and I'm with the sisters the house decorated for Christmas and then we prepare dinner. Ema during the main course, stuffed turkey, served with beans, potatoes and salads, prepared, I make a Griesklöschensuppe and Oeufs a la Neige "for dessert. By 18 clock then the Christmas Mass in the chapel; It will be sung beautiful songs, including "Noche de Paz" (Silent Night). Then we come to "Cola de Mono" and eat nice dinner. After dinner there is mess, I get nice gifts from the three sisters and they seem to be happy about my well. I also got great gifts sent by mail from Germany, about which I'm really happy. So I spend a great Christmas Eve here in Chile - although unlike in Germany and to warm at 20 degrees, but very beautiful.