Los Reyes Magos

Christmas Break, sadly, is over.

On the 30th of December, we had a failtacular AFS orientation. Only three of us showed up. Me, Malte (who lives in Valladolid) and Emily. We first went ice skating and then went out for churros, so beside the bad turn out, we still had a good time. :)

Eating churros with the other AFSers

On New Year's Eve (Or Nochevieja as they call it here) we went to my Aunt's house where we ate A LOT of food. And we also ate the traditional 12 grapes in the last seconds of the year for good luck. I managed to eat them all and NOT choke. :)

New Years Day we ate another HUGE meal at my grandparents house.


Januray 5th we went to a parade called, Cabalgata De Reyes, in the town next to mine. Andrea, one of my friends, was in it as a duck.

This is a video of the parade in Madrid from last year, I think... I saw the one from this year one on TV.

My friend:)

After the parade, we went home and ate Roscón, which is a traditional dessert for Reyes Magos. In it are too 'surprises' is a bean and the other is a king. The person who gets the king becomes the 'King or Queen' and the person who get the bean has to pay.

Roscón

My sister was the 'Queen' and there was a car inside the cake, not a king :P

On the sixth we celebrated Los Reyes Magos or Three Kings day. Which celebrate the three kings that brought the gift to baby Jesus. This is the day that you open up your presents. So that morning we ALL got woken up by my sister yelling 'Get up! Get up! Let's open our presents!' and singing a Spanish Christmas song. We opened presents and then some friends of my parents came over to eat breakfast, we ate the rest of the Roscón.

Also today it SNOWED!! Which is NOT normal in Valladolid:) It only lasted about 2 hours and it all disappeared but still IT SNOWED! :) 

Upcoming News:

February: AFS orientation, Carnival (I'll explain more about this later), and Noelle, an AFSer in Sevilla is coming up for a weekend! 

My host dad made crepes over break :) yummmmmm