As the holiday season is quickly approaching, many people are getting ready for their annual traditions! Within the Prep community students are anxiously awaiting the holiday season to begin, with every member of the community celebrating this holiday differently.
Prep’s Honors Spanish teacher, Profe Nemeth, tells us about her experience celebrating Christmas in Mexico during her year of studying abroad there. In Mexico, Profe explains, there is a big celebration around Christmas time called Las Posadas. This is an event where the people reenact the journey of Mary and Joseph looking for a place at the inn. During this 9-day festival the community comes together to sing villancicos which is the Spanish term for Christmas carols. Each day they go to a different person’s house, and on the 9th day they get invited into someone’s house and a huge party is thrown, as they have finally found a place to stay. For Profe, this was not her first time doing a Posada. When she was little, one of her friends hosted one which she described as, “A unique experience that I immensely enjoyed.”
Kris Sekhar 24’ is a senior here at Prep, and he tells us about his families Christmas traditions, which is getting to travel to Croatia each year for Christmas. He described his Christmas in Croatia as not being very different then the celebration here in the US, “In Croatia we still have trees and sing Christmas carols around town.” Though the activities are similar, he commented that the food eaten during the holiday seasons in Croatia is very different. Some traditional foods they eat during the holiday season are Sarma, which is a stuffed pickled cabbage roll served with mashed potatoes, and Bakalar which is smoked cod.
Christmas is a time for everyone within the Prep community to get a break from school and spend some quality time with family and friends. From Profe Nemeth’s amazing Mexican Christmas tradition to Sekhar and his family’s trip to Croatia, we get a glimpse at a few of the many different Christmas traditions and celebrations that people within our Prep community partake in during this season!
