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Riddick
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 Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: Have a happy Christmas |
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I would like to wish everyone a happy CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR
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denise
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Thank you! Happy Christmas to you, too. I am, in fact, having a wonderful holiday!
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Cdaniels
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:11 am Post subject: Happy Boxing Day! |
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To our Canadian and British friends: Happy Boxing Day!
Its a little early for celebrating New Year's however.  |
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khmerhit
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To all my American friends abroad, plus my American cousins in Massachussetts, namely in Plymouth, ansl also my old mates in Florida, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Seoul, an to all me old maties from the U.K who are still in Cambodia!!
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Henry_Cowell
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| And to our Jewish friends: Happy Hanukkah (Dec. 25-Jan. 1)!!! |
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eslHQ
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Cheers!
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RyanS
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| Boxing Day is the day the lords gave part of their leftovers from christmas dinner to their servents usually boxed up.... not a cool celebration. |
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CharlesTESOL
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: D�a de los Reyes |
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I love the holiday season in Spanish-spaking countries for many reasons but perhaps especially because it does not end New Years Day but continues through D�a de los Reyes on the 6th! Not only is there the Reyes parade to look forward to on the evening of the 5th but another day offering an excuse for feasting. (Not to mention that with Reyes falling on a Friday this year, work will not start again until the 9th!)
Here's a link with a little more detail about this and other special days in December and January:
http://www.geocities.com/thalaric1/navidad/traditions.html
and another to a recipe for a Roscones de Reyes, or a Kings' Crown:
http://redgeomatica.rediris.es/elenza/english/recipes/rec.roscon.htm
As� que, a todos mis colegas,
�FELICE REYES! |
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Cdaniels
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: No tired old politics please! |
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| RyanS wrote: |
| Boxing Day is the day the lords gave part of their leftovers from christmas dinner to their servents usually boxed up.... not a cool celebration. |
Oh, nothing to do with gloved pugilists? How disappointing.  Christmas itself used to be a day of giving to the poor, and only recently became a day to give presents to your own children (what kind of charity is giving things to your children?) Rather than continuing to be even more cynical than Ryan, here are some alternative explanations for Boxing Day:
* In churches, it was traditional to open the church's donation box on Christmas day, and the money in the donation box was to be distributed to the poorer or lower class citizens on the next day. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that one gigantic lockbox in which the donations were left.
* In Britain because many servants had to work for their employers on Christmas day they would instead open their presents (i.e., boxes) the next day, which therefore became known as Boxing Day
* Centuries ago, merchants would present their servants food and fruits as a form of Yuletide tip. Naturally, the gifts of food and fruit were packed in boxes, hence the term "Boxing Day".
* In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on December 25, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obligated to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.
* In Britain many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas (December 26). Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_day
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: D�a de los Reyes |
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| CharlesTESOL wrote: |
| I love the holiday season in Spanish-spaking countries for many reasons but perhaps especially because it does not end New Years Day but continues through D�a de los Reyes on the 6th! Not only is there the Reyes parade to look forward to on the evening of the 5th but another day offering an excuse for feasting. (Not to mention that with Reyes falling on a Friday this year, work will not start again until the 9th!) |
Maybe in your Spanish-speaking country work won't start again until the 9th. Where I teach, we return to work on January 4th. |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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Location: Seoul, South Korea and Myanmar for a bit
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| Teachers here were mostly back on the 2nd. I was actually in on the 30th, making sure that all was organised for classes to start the next week. Ho, ho, ho... |
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