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Christmas in Venezuela is a wonderful, noisy, and happy event. All those things related to music, food, and religious traditions take place in a country that has no winter. Not only because Venezuela has tropical weather, but because everybody is so warm there. So we pretend to feel the cold of the artificial snow that decorates an imported tree. The most musical folks organize a “parranda”, which is a group of people who sing our native Christmas music. The least lazy people wake up very

I was a foreigner when I moved to Texas five years ago, from Valencia Venezuela. I did not know what it was going to be like living in this huge state, where you need a car to go to anywhere. I finally saw with my own eyes authentic cowboys, with boots and hats, walking on the streets instead of riding horses, and what surprised me the most was the friendly way Texans greet others every time they have the opportunity. Five years after, I am still a foreigner, but I am not a stranger anymore.