Monday, December 29, 2008

Posada in our house!!!

Hi all!
Now I’m writing about the first posada we had in our new house.
It was with all the students who are working with appa in the lab (Argelia, Natalia, Cheve, Ale, Viri, and others).
First we asked for posada (it’s like to ask for hospitality) by singing. This is like a representation of the event when Jose and Mary asked for hospitality from house to house if they could stay there the night when Jesus was going to born. Then we broke the piñata. There 2 boys who are my neighbors also came and hit it and they took more sweets than we did. We had fun doing this because we hit the piñata with our eyes covered so some of us couldn’t hit the piñata but as the piñata was very resistant we had a second round without covering our eyes.
After all these things, we ate tamales!, tostadas, qekiss (muffins), a panque (a type of bread) and my brownies. We drank some very tasty ponche and champurrado (amma made it). Everything was very very delicious, but just a little thing was wrong. It was that my brownies which I got it burnt at the bottom during baking. So we have to make a strong effort to eat them, hahahaha. The normal part tasted good. Argelia made the qekiss and they were very delicious. I saw her making them and learnt its preparation. We bought some of the tamales and others maestra (miss) Agustina brought them. For the tostadas, each person brought something, and we could take whatever we wanted.
While eating we were watching videos on YouTube. Some of them were very funny and we also saw a video of Charice Pempengco. I was impressed with her because she sang very nice. You should hear her songs if possible.
We had a wonderful time!