Three Kings Day
Vas: Well here in Mexico it’s kinda still Christmas because January 6th is Kings Day and that’s the time they give presents. Well, they actually give presents on Christmas and Kings Day. What I have usually seen is that on Christmas the presents are given to your family and friends and on Kings Day a lot of times people will give again to family and friends but also try and do something for needy children in fact past Christmas’ people would come to us to organize event’s for them their family or even company that they would sponsor and be involved in. Last year around this time we did this for a company and the orphanage of blind children were very thankful for the event but I don’t know if the company that sponsored it benefited more because they were all quite touched and even moved to tears by the event and went away feeling very satisfied about being part of this event. To me it is clear that doing something for others brings so much joy to ones life although it is easy to forget this and go through at least an entire year sometimes before one decides to do this again. I feel that whether we can afford to or not, we can’t afford to go without reaching our charitable hand out to others.
Another custom that they have here in Mexico during Christmas is called a posada and what you do in a posada is, say it’s your neighborhood posada so all the people that show up for the posada will light candles and sing what I like to call the posada song and the song itself is actually asking for a place to stay the night. It’s like everyone is enacting when Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem and needed a place to stay. So what you do is everyone goes from door to door in the neighborhood knock on the door and sing the posada song. Now there will be one house in the neighborhood that there is a Christmas party prepared and I think everyone kind of knows which one it is so you go to a couple of houses that is not it and then finally the last house you go to of course is the posada party and they let everyone in and you eat and drink and be merry and have a merry Christmas. Now I am pretty sure this is the deal and way it’s done, although there are a couple of different style Posada’s that they hold here. Some are in banquet halls or restaurants but basically this is the idea of the Posada party, although I don’t think you’ll find a company Posada doing this, as it’s usually held in a hall or restaurant and for the employees. Any way that’s to try and answer question number four I believe. See ya all later.
January 14th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Cool, we have Three Kings, too.