Santa Claus is coming to town – Irish Sign Language
Roll over into the second blog from the previous – Near to Christmas and New Season…..
Today I went in the city of Hamilton, and I saw many people who were busy shopping on presents such as Black Friday, foods for making Christmas cakes, puddings, even they bought many secret gifts for their children. I was amazed how much does the present cost for their one child – $145.00. Mm yep, it is time for the early Christmas shopping now.
Well, we don’t celebrate our Christmas now because we are getting older and settling down with our dogs, to have the relaxing time. We will visit my mother and two brothers down in Raglan in the next day, and we allowed my mum to rest a bit more. Other families of mine – I have no ideas on their plannings, and they don’t keep in touch with us until the last minutes… We have got our plans around the home and catching up the projects in between my two appointments – Pinched nerve damaged from the right side of my neck down to the hand. It is an annoying, painful and very tiring.
This morning I went into Pak n Save with a Deaf Somalian lady, and I encountered one of the homeless and financial problem people from work. The person was so grateful to have some foods from our gardens last week. This person was not qualified for an extended food parcel from WINZ. It was good to know that the person received the food parcel in good faith from us and we are beginning careful who we can give out or not.
At the Settlement Centre, I was greeted by many students, and they said they missed me yesterday. They told me they helped a Deaf Somalian Lady in the class yesterday. These students are Muslims except a small group of students came from Columbia. I was pondering on giving gifts in goodwill and appreciate of thankfulness throughout this year. We shared our laughter, experience of learning bad English or good English, our Deaf Culture and sign language; They found our Deaf culture is similar to these refugee students’ culture – not enough money to pay bills, where to contact, what was the weather like in Hamilton and the list continue to grow. We built our friendships and trust throughout this year. But I can’t do this according to the teacher of ESOL, and instead of giving gifts of goodwill, appreciation, we will have a shared lunch. I accepted the teacher’s decision, but deep down, I know that these students would love to see me again in 2018. I will be making two homemade cookings primarily for two groups – Muslim Afghanistan and Columbian because the foods are almost the same.
The ingredients are from our garden which is good, and some other components like spices, Rosewater, Safrron, were in the pantry here.
Looking at the rest of the countries – Muslim people do not celebrate Christmas and here is the list of nations:
– The Maldives
-Turkey
– Russia
– Thailand
– Morocco
– Vietnam
– Somalia
– Laos
– Cambodia
– Kuwait
– Uzbekistan
– Iraq
– China
– Congo
– Algeria
– Yemen
– Kazakhstan
– The United Arab Emirates
– Libya
– Iran
– Azerbaijan
– Comoros-
– Oman, Mongolia
– Turkmenistan
– Bhutan
– Nepal,
– North Korea
– Qatar
– Saudi Arabia
– Mauritania-
-Tajikistan
– Bahrain
– Israel
– Tunisia and Afghanistan.
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