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IndieWeb Carnival en Diciembre 2023 — Tradiciones y Celebraciones de Diciembre

2023-12-22 by Pablo Morales

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Las Tradiciones de Diciembre

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Me encanta mucho el mes de Diciembre. Cuando se acerca la navidad, me gusta cuando hay nieve en el suelo. Me gustan las celebraciones y tradiciones en las que participó. Yo celebro tradiciones mexicanas y celebraciones estadounidenses. Yo vivo entre las dos culturas y crecí en los Estados Unidos y he vivido en México. En casa lo celebró como si estuviera en México.

Cada año es diferente. A veces estoy en Oaxaca durante el mes de diciembre y a veces estoy en Estados Unidos. Celebró ahí las tradiciones Mexicanas pero más precisamente, las tradiciones Oaxaqueñas. Me gusta ir a ver los bailes y los desfiles. Me gusta ir a los mercados de comida y probar todas las comidas deliciosas. Se nos hace agua en la boca.

Celebraciones Mexicanas:

En mi familia nos gusta mucho cocinar en casa. Hacemos muchos platillos tradicionales. Hacemos tamales de varios sabores, ponche mexicano, mole, pasteles, cocteles de camarón, y muchísimo más! No hay límite. En este mes, normalmente no comemos en la calle. ¡La comida en casa siempre es más rica!

En las noches siempre vemos unas películas de navidad. Nos gusta ver películas en Español. Cada año vemos Home Alone en español porque es muy chistosa. Simplemente estar juntos es importante. Podemos reír entre todos.

Siempre ponemos y arreglamos el árbol de navidad. Nosotros abrimos los regalos en la noche del 24 de diciembre. Siempre ha sido así.

Celebraciones Estadounidenses:

Siempre me reuno con mis amigos. Ahora que no vivimos en la misma región, es muy importante estar juntos. Hablamos como nos fue este año y que queremos cumplir para el año entrante. Algunas cosas que hacemos son casas de jengibres y tenemos una fiesta. Dependiendo como esté el clima, andamos en patineta o vamos al skatepark.

Lo que siempre me anima es la noche de programación. Hacemos un plan en que vamos a programar en una noche. Nos quedamos despiertos hasta la madrugada. Es algo muy bonito de programar algo juntos. Creo que este año vamos hacer un video juego. A ver como nos va.

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IndieWeb Carnival December 2023 — Holiday and December traditions

2023-12-22 by Pablo Morales

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My December Traditions

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I really love the month of December. When the holidays approach, I get excited to see snow on the ground. There are so many celebrations and traditions that exist. For myself, I celebrate Mexican traditions and American celebrations. I live between the two cultures and grew up in the United States and have lived in Mexico. At my parents home, we celebrate as if we were in Mexico.

Every year is different. Sometimes I'm in Oaxaca during the month of December and sometimes I'm in the United States. We celebrate Mexican traditions there but more precisely, the Oaxacan traditions. I like to go see the dances and the parades. May I say it's heavenly go to the food markets and try all the delicious meals.

Mexican Traditions:

My family really likes cooking at home. We make many traditional dishes. We make tamales of various flavors, Mexican punch, mole, cakes, shrimp cocktails, and so much more. There's no limit. In this month, we don't normally eat out. Homemade food tastes so much better!

In the evenings, we relax and watch some holiday movies. We like to watch movies in Spanish, especially any of the classics. Every year we see Home Alone in Spanish because it's very funny. It hits differently in Spanish. Just being together is important. We can laugh as a family.

We do decorate our Christmas tree. We open the presents on the night of December 24. It's a traditon. It's always been like that.

United States Traditions:

I always make sure to meet up with my friends when I return to Nebraska. Now that we don't live near each other anymore, it's very important to be together when we are back in our hometowns. We check in with each other and see how our year went and what our goals are for the upcoming year. We build ginger houses and we have a party. What could go wrong? Depending on how the weather is, we're riding our longboards or we're going to skate park.

Im always excited for a night of programming fun. We just see where the night will take us. We make it our goal to stay up until dawn. It's a very nice thing to schedule something together. I think we're going to make a video game this year. Let's see what happens...

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IndieWeb Carnival September 2023: My Kind of Weather

2023-09-25 by Pablo Morales

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This post is in reponse to Jeremy Cherfas' IndieWeb Carnival September 2023: My Kind of Weather .

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Snow Weather Thought #034

Growing up in the Midwest I used to complain about the snow. Now that I am far from it, I do realize it's my kind of weather.

Appreciating the things taken for granted

Growing up in the Midwestern region of the United States (or commonly known as the Midwest) I was so used to irritable weather. What I mean by irritable weather was facing, "four seasons in one week." You're probably thinking the following: "How is this possible?" It simply does! If you know, you know. Here are a few examples (No particular order)

One day it can be a nice spring day with all the flowers blooming being happy as can be.

The following day you could wake up to find out that there is a blizzard in effect.

A few days, it could be scorching hot and wondering how we got here?

The last few days of the week, it could be a beautiful, soothing fall day and you forget about the weather tragedies of earlier of the week.

As chaotic as it sounds, I do miss it. I do miss sometimes not knowing if I will melt one day or be trapped in my home for many days at a time. My favorite is knowing if my home would fly away in a tornado. As silly and boring the topic of weather is, it is also a bonding activity with people who live in this region. It's almost a pastime knowing we could just die at any minute.

If I were to pick a favorite season, it would be winter. Are you in shock? Even I don't believe it. I do miss dressing up all nice for the winter. Who doesn't like wearing cute winter outfits. If were going to suffer in the cold we might as well look our best!

I moved to California to live in a different place and subconsciously to escape the cold. In Northern California it is generally just hot here all the time. I do miss having season changes. Geography and location tends to influence the type of weather or climate one lives in.

You can take the person out of the midwest but you can't take the Midwestern out of the person.

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