Spending time with my friends

Today, I was spending time with my friends on at a club, we were going to go on a sailboat but that was broke it was broken, so bad but we were walking on at the place instead and we saw a lighthouse and the view were was amazing....

After that, i I was in the Centro (Neighboorhood) with other friends and we ate pizza and drove bicycles... fun and tired day (or, "it was a fun and tiring day").....

See you tomorrow...

(<em>Great job!  I was able to understand everything!  Ask me if you have any questions about the corrections!</em>)

Hot, hot, hot!

Oh dear my god! It's incredibly hot in Blumenau. This isn't normal for me, where I live the temperature is more comfortable, and the hottest days are absolutely not like what I'm living feeling here right now. In addition, there is no air conditioning, just an old fan. But we're solving the problem on the weekend, we're going to buy an air conditioner. Then all it's going to get pretty much better. It's just too hard have hot to work, study, do the housework, and or any other thing this way. Even the cold shower is hot. I have the impression that I'm like cookies in the oven. See? See what hot temperatures are doing to me? I'm not annoying like this (well, at least I really don't think so...but who knows?). Well, I think I'll just come back here to write again when after I have the air conditioning...

<em>Very good!  I like the title "Hot, hot, hot!".  Think cool thoughtsl!!</em>

Sochelnik – Cristmas Eve

In Russia, the Christmas Eve is called Sochelnik, or Kolyada (<em>You should explain the difference between "Sochelnik" and "Kolyada"</em>). It is the last day of the Christmas fast. On Christmas Eve it was a custom not to eat anything before the appearance of the first star in the sky as a symbol of the Bethlehem star, which once showed the Magi to the cradle of the child Jesus. Festive divine service takes place on these hours during this time in churches. Until the evening service the church enjoins mandates strict fasting, whereas people at war (<em>at war like the military?  Or fighting with each other as families?</em>)  ought to be reconciled to each other.

Sochelnik is considered to be celebrated with a family dinner. The word Sochelnik comes from sochivo, a sacral lenten dish that was a must tradition for this night. It was made of from almond or poppy milk mixed with honey and cereals (wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat, pea, and later even rice). Nuts and poppy seeds were added to the festive porridge.

The other main dishes were kutya made of boiled grains of wheat or barley, and uzvar, of apples, pears, plums, raisins, cherries and other fruits boiled in water. Kutya and uzvar have symbolical meaning: the first Kutya is eaten at a funeral repast to commemorate the dead, whereas the second one uzvar is cooked to celebrate the birth of a child. These two dishes together stood for two remembrances – of the birth of Christ and of his death.

In the days of old the Christmas table was strewed with hey and then only covered with a tablecloth. Twelve dishes (according to the number of the Apostles) were put in the centre of the table. Apart from sochivo the feast would offer include pancakes, fish, fish and meat jelly, young pork with porridge, roast, honey cakes, uzvars, etc., depending on what the family could afford.

<em>Thanks Olya, I learned a lot!</em>