Christmas Time

Christmas is one of my favorites holidays, the origins of Christmas are in the Christian religion and it celebrates the birth of the sun of god. According to the Christian’s stories there were three kings that brought gifts to the new born.

Now we also celebrate as a tradition of the occidental world, the arriving of Santa Claus at Christmas night bringing gifts to all the children in the world.

I think that most of the celebration that we have now it’s according to a culture that we had incorporated as ours that mostly is promote the values of the capitalism and the imperialism.

On the other hand, I think that we should make this holyday a time to spend with the family and friends, and for the people who believe in this religion a special time to celebrate. We shouldn`t be so worried about buying stuff and getting presents.

I usually celebrate with my closest family and sometimes we spend it with others members of the family, like uncles and cousins. We usually have a nice dinner prepared by my mom and then we exchange gifts, on the next day we hang out in my house with the rest of the family.

I like the Christmas time because I can spend a really great time with my family and we can share special gifts. 

A new and strange term

My name is Belén and I’m in third year of sociology.

I hope that this new term won`t be as difficult as I think, because it’ll be a really short semester so we will have less time to see the contents that we need, also the contents of the subjects have been reduced.  So that’s why I’ve decided to take only the obligatory subjects and the English 4 class, that’s means that I didn’t take any compulsory subject so I might get a little behind with my classes. Any way… I take Sociological Theory 4, Economical Sociology, Population and Society, Sociology of the Organizations, and Quantitative Techniques 2.

I’m not really happy about being studying in the Christmas time, specially because it is summer, so the hot weather makes it really difficult, in the other hand, some of my friends are already on vacations and planning their trips for the next month, so that make me wish to be on vacations too.

In this class I would like to practice my speaking skills because in English that is the hardest part to me. Also, I would like to have fun activities to make easier the learning process.