Sunday, February 6, 2011

Boas Festas – my Christmas celebration 2010

2010 was a year of overwhelming surprises and marked an era of self realization, knowledge, acceptance, adaptability and significantly in embarking new scales of adventures.

I got a unique opportunity to celebrate Natal (Christmas) with Dani’s family. It was the union of Felippe, Toffoli, Debuire (French), Petareli and Vadakkedath (Indian) families under an umbrella on a well decorated table. Bringing all these families together signaled a salient upcoming change, prosperity and was an opportunity to cement the declining family relations

hips. To me, it was the perfect opportunity to introduce myself into the big family. The gathering constituted 45 people with mixed age groups, living in neighboring cities and of multiple professions. The magnitude of this year’s Christmas commemoration was significantly high because of international participation, as we have a French family, Debuire and an Indian. The celebration was held at the newly constructed house of Dani’s tia (aunt), Teia. She is a retired physical instructor from military and an artist.

Julien from Debuire family is married to Helen from Toffoli family is cousin of Dani. Recently they are gifted with a new born cute baby boy, Cauan. They were accompanied by their visiting French parents who are on a short visit to see the new born baby. Not to ignore, myself, an Indian native who was recently tweaked into the Felippe family through Dani.

The celebrations started with an introduction, were everyone gets a chance to introduce themselves, like belonging to which family, profession, plans for the coming years …..etc. I gave a very pleasant introduction and thanked the families for the hospitality and support in the last couple of months. I appreciate the idea of this theme, but there was lot of annoying interruptions, unwanted comments and teasers from some of the participants. The Dani’s uncles gave an awesome introduction and thanked the other families for inviting them.

Food, an integral part of all the celebrations in Brazil, was diversified this time, with the presence of an Indian dish and variety of typical Brazilian dishes. Honestly, I ate a lot and decided not to eat for another couple of days. Followed by this heavy food were the delicious deserts. Another interesting event of the celebration is the exchanging of gifts. I enjoyed this part incredibly because I received numerous gifts. To list a few, my dream shoes from Dani, a suave shirt from mae, a football shorts from Mariana and goes on. Sadly, I was not able to gift Dani on our first Christmas together.

The fiesta continued until early morning 3:00 am…

On the flip side, I missed my family back in India and I sent good vibrations, blessings and wishes from here. Julio's absence had a huge influence in the family and everyone got the opportunity to speak with him on phone. Again, I Thank all the families for the immense support, motivation and unity for realizing many dreams. I wish all the families, individuals across the globe are blessed this year and the following years….








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