Personal Narrative: Spending Christmas In Mexico

One cold winter, My family and I decided to spend Christmas in Mexico, all the family went to Mexico. We all stayed in my Grandpas house and celebrated Christmas as a big family, I was excited. This was my first time spending Christmas in Mexico, I always spent Christmas back home in the United States. It was fun, but there weren't as many parties in the United States. Mexico they focus on more about the birth of Jesus and celebrating him and in the United States, they focus on Santa Claus. My mom was from Mexico and told me about Posadas which is Christmas parties. I was excited to go to those, the parties happened before Christmas and we had the whole family together. My grandmother was going to make tamales and pozole, Christmas punch. We

The day came for Christmas eve and I woke up in a good mood, getting ready to eat tamales and pozole, Christmas punch. My grandma really knew how to cook a good dinner, I went to the market, with my mom to buy all the supplies to make the food and bought some last minute Christmas presents. It was around 5 o'clock and I was all changed up in my Christmas outfit, my family always took a family picture on Christmas Eve. My aunt called me over and asked me, ¨ What did you want for Christmas this year?¨, I said ¨I want a doll and a tablet¨. She looked at me and told that I wanted a lot of stuff and I just walked away, I only wanted two presents how was that a lot to ask for. I ignored what my aunt said and kept on with my night, my parents told that I could only ask for two presents. The houses smelled like tamales and pozole, can't forget about the Christmas punch. My cousin and I fixed the table up and arranged all the spoons and forks. We decided to wrap some last minute Christmas presents, the tree was full of presents, from big to small. The night came, we went to church and after all my family gathered around the table and we each held our hands,