7. About Birthdays.

In classes, we always talk about traditions, rituals, and mythologies in another far locations and exotic cultures, but we never talk about our cultural simbols and manners.

Since a long time ago, I got this special curiosity about the origin of the birthday parties, cause for me, is a very interesting ritual, and we all had participate in this activities once.

Yesterday, I went to google and I look for an explication for the songs, globes, and food that everybody use to have in the birthdays parties. There I found some strange explanations aobut the origin of all the usual elements in this ritual. For example, I read that turning off the lights and blow out the candle meant starting a new cycle with positive energies, and leave behind past problems.

I also discovered that there exist many differents songs to celebrate birthdays. For me, the song that we usually sing in moments like that is horrible. I don’t like it, and even sometimes it bothers me.

Well. Now I will tell you why I chose to write about birthday in this blog: it was because january 25 was my birthday! That day was good at the end, cause some friends take me away from the University and we were eating and talking for a while. The rest of the day was be studying and at classes! This never happened to me before, so I felt that I really need freetime and be quite for a moment. So on Friday I was with friends too, and there we share a really with moment. And at the weekend, I went to the beach and it helped me relax and enjoy been out of Santiago.