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12 days of Christmas with Adeola

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Christmas as a child was Wonderful.
I mean from the funny traditions, cloth, Bangers, carol and father Christmas (santa claus) isn’t left out
In this article I will quickly bring back those childhood memories by mentioning most of the Christmas and holiday traditions.
Continue reading to learn more.

1. THE CHRISTMAS CLOTH: Christmas as kids is not complete without the Christmas cloth. Drip is important and what is drip without the new pair of jeans, shirt and those killer plastic sunglasses and the new hairstyle with a lot of beads. I really don’t know if this was done everywhere, but my mom will wrap our outfits on Christmas Eve while we slept and claim Father Christmas brought it. Funny we believed. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT HARMATTAN STARTER PACK HERE

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2. CHRISTMAS FOOD: The official Christmas food everywhere is Nigeria is rice(either white rice, jollof, fried or coconut) alongside with chicken and “minerals” though local meals were made in some homes, but the rice seemed more appropriate. Forgive me for not including chin chin earlier.

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3. HEARING CHRISTMAS CAROL BEING PLAYED HERE AND THERE: it’s another time to dust our old BONEY M CD’s and make sure we disturb the whole city. “They must know”.

4. THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CAROL: Every year we hold carols in schools and churches to celebrate Christmas. We are used to singing our very wrong lyrics of FELIZ NAVIDAD.
We must not forget the one story line drama we have acted or sat to watch every year. Beautiful moments.

6. VISITING FAMILY: Christmas doesn’t seem be to complete without our yearly tour round every relatives and friends houses, I mean who will eat the rice they cooked?
Let us not forget our relatives who come around too. Some who we are very familiar with and others who only visit once a year (Christmas).
Aside meeting cousins and aunties this was another big Cashout for me as they never leave without dropping money and if they don’t we, instantly label them the wicked uncles and aunts. “omo time no dey”

6. VISITING THE NEIGHBORS: It was more like a trade, where you go visiting with a large bowl of food to your neighbors place and then you are given a sum of money and food too , to take back home. For me it was a special moment, this was my way of cashing out. Those mint 100 naira mattered to me, they either fund my sweets and biscuit desires or my show off time, talk about “I HAVE NEW MONEY”. This has to be one of times where we you won’t hear kids grumble when sent on errands

7. BANGERS/FIRECRACKERS: Christmas is announced by the sound of bangers in street corners. Some money we got from saying “aunty do Christmas for me” was spent on Firecrackers and bangers. For one they are very loud, colorful and also enhance help to enhance the mood of the season. How many sounds do you buy?(answer in the comment section.)

8. VISITING SANTA CLAUS AKA FATHER CHRISTMAS: Our Father Christmas was not the type to say oh oh oh and make you smile, but we still went because of the gifts we got from them.

9. THE AFTERMATH: omooooooooo!!! Boxing day is a good day to have a date with the toilet seat to talk about your bad decisions and combinations. And don’t let forget the bitter flagyl pills and Andrew liver salt.

VOCABS.
1. aunty do Christmas for me: mostly means you should open your purse to give money.
2. Father Christmas: Santa Claus
3. Minerals: Soft drinks
4. Carol: Nigeria definition of an event that celebrates Christmas in advance.
5. “omo time no dey”: there is no need to waste time.
6. omooooooooo!!! : Nigerians way of saying damn

Do you think I forgot to mention any important tradition? Tell me in the comment section.

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