How is Christmas celebrated in Paraguay…?
Christmas Eve and Christmas: Well, forget the snow. It’s really hot here… It’s the middle of the summer. In Asuncion (capital city) and the big cities we do decorate Christmas trees but we don’t use real trees, but plastic ones. We also decorate our houses with lights like Americans do. We give presents only to kids and girlfriends. We have dinner on Christmas Eve around 10 p.m. and we stay up until at least 2 a.m. celebrating the coming of Christmas. What we eat: it has become a tradition to eat big (something like what Americans do on Thanksgiving) and drink something called “clerico”, which is wine with pieces of fruit. At midnight we say our prayers (this country is very Catholic) in front of a Christmas manger (or Nativity scene) we installed days before and that would be in the house’s yard until January 6 (Día de Reyes Magos). New Year’s Eve and Day: We do exactly the same as Christmas, although in the past years it started to become more like a friends-holiday than a family-h
