🎄🎀😇💫¡Hola! ¡Hola!🎄🎀😇💫
Hello! My dear community, in my country Christmas is here! and that's why I want to share some appreciations and photographs of how my institution decorated the season with their best creations.
I am Catholic and we are very clear about the reason for Christmas and the different celebrations we do; to give you a “quick tour” we start in December with the Advent wreath, which signifies the coming of our Lord. Then we do the aguinaldo masses, followed by the birth of the child, the nativity and the arrival of the kings. All this will depend on the area where we are and the particular traditions, but this is the most symbolic. Why do we celebrate it since October 1st? By mere presidential decree. So the institutions (both public and private) must comply by decorating and animating the spaces with Christmas motifs.
Preparations began days before, looking for new designs or “dusting off” last year's designs to give them a new touch, paint them and put them up. In my institution there is a door decoration contest. Therefore, each department tries to bring out their best creations to be able to offer some nice motif and of course allow them to win😊.
I was in charge or focused on helping with the nativity that is the representation that the church accepts, because that is where we honor the day of the nativity of our Lord Jesus. In this sense, it is always done in the central patio so that the people who arrive can see it and admire it, because the work that is done is too beautiful. When I say help it was not that I passed tape, made flowers or put lights😆, a colleague took care of that and we were keeping company while sharing a moment as we rarely do, since we are all always in our offices or academic responsibilities.
I have to admit that this work needs people with charisma, creativity and power of resolution to make these creations; I think I lack all three or I do not have them developed🤣. However, we took advantage of the moment as I told you to share, to help and everything went so naturally, that those of us who were not helping in the birth itself, we did it by singing, dancing, recording videos to show what was happening to those colleagues who were not in the yard.
In the end it turned out better than we expected because several colleagues came with maracas, Christmas attire, drums, charrascas (like the one from “Juana la cubana”) and the best attitude to make this moment more bearable, forgetting a little the problems we have in our country.
Final thoughts For me Christmas is a time of celebration, union and peace. Understanding that at this time it is difficult to think about these feelings and actions when our family members are far away or going through very strong personal situations, it is difficult for me to feel 100% joy. However, sharing a moment with my colleagues, encouraging each other, seeing the effort they make every day to fulfill their work or functions, makes me feel admiration and therefore, I like to surround myself with them, whether with a story, a joke, an anecdote, or simply comments that help me grow, make my life more bearable and calm in the hours I am in the institution.
I hope that little by little we will spread this encouragement to those people who are discouraged, sad, hopeless, so that they understand that Christmas is a time to remember the birth of our savior, the one who will take away all our sorrows and anguish if we fully trust in his salvation and his promise 🙏. Christmas is only a space of one month, but these feelings that move us are the ones that should prevail for the whole year. So I'll stick with that and hope to go up the levels so I can have a Merry Christmas🎄🎀😇💫!
Las fotografías son de mi propiedad.
La portada la hice en Canvas.
El separador lo hice en FotoJet.
El traductor usado fue DeepL.
🎄🎀😇💫Hasta un próximo encuentro🎄🎀😇💫
The photographs are my property. The cover was made in Canvas. The separator was made in FotoJet. The translator used was DeepL. See you next time.