Personal Narrative: My Family Traditions

MY FAMILY CHRITSMAS TRADITIONS
Every Christmas my whole family gathers the 25th and the 31st of December in my farm, in Tamesis, Colombia. What I mean by my whole family includes the following: 6 uncles, 6 aunts, 25 cousins, 2 grandparents, 14-second cousins and 6 great-uncles. I will mention several traditions in this following essay of what we do in Tamesis. We firmly believe that sticking to our traditions is really important for strong family ties.
When New Year comes around the traditions here in Colombia say that you should eat 12 grapes at mid night, have money in your pocket, wear yellow underwear, pore Champaign on your hair, wear something green and run around the house with a suitcase full of future plans. We do all of this because

we believe that it would give us more benefits for life. For example, money in the pocket means to multiply your profit (you may get lucky and get a job or even prosper in your future business endeavors) When the clock ticks mid night, a suitcase full of goodies and lots of energy to run around the house might bring you lots of trips to places you have always wanted to travel to. The 12 grapes haves to be eaten right at mid night and for every grape that you eat a wish may come true. They have to be eaten really fast and some times there is so much excitement that you end up choking and laughing as crazy. Wearing yellow panties is equal to having good luck in the coming year. Green is easily understood as multiplying dollars you might have under your matrix. The Champaign tradition is from my father, he says ¨If you spill some on your hair it will not only give you good luck but also take away pains, eliminate sins and remove any moral regrets¨.

Last but not least, I remember last year on the 31st of December, we had a special breakfast, a smashing lunch and a feast at dinner. We ate buñuelos and natilla, which are traditional, plates from Colombia. All the grandchildren make the special breakfast, my uncles, and big cousins are in charge of lunch and my grandparents and granduncles take care of dinner. These traditions have been in my family since my great-grandparents. We have several games before its midnight as a way to not go to sleep, for example we have tournaments of pin pong, billiards, and we make costumes, karaoke, dancing lessons and football games. Also before the New Year we make a list of the terrible things that happen that year and a new list with the thing that you wish will happen in the New Year. When its mid night we burn the bad list and attached the new list to a white balloon and let it fly away.
In conclusion, my family is enormous and I am very fortunate for this, I LOVE how we are all spontaneous and organize and how Christmas becomes the best moment of the year and I will always remember the party that is New Year for us.