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Hi, Bob the Canadian here!
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I thought it would be fun for you guys to learn a little bit more about Christmas, but
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to learn it from other people.
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So I made this sign, it says, “Hi!
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I make Youtube videos to help people learn English.
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I'm making one about Christmas!
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Would you like to be in it?”
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And I went down to the local grocery store and I stood outside for a few hours and I
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just asked other Canadians what they liked about Christmas.
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So in this video you'll learn some English from me, and you'll learn some English from
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some other Canadians at the same time.
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I hope you enjoy it!
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Hey thanks so much for watching this video if this is your first time here don't forget
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to click the subscribe button below and the bell notification icon, and don't forget
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to give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it's helping you learn English.
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So like I said we're going to hear from a bunch of different Canadians telling you
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why they like Christmas.
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I hope you can understand someone speaking English who's not me.
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Let's get started.
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So I'm here today with...
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Alanna.
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Alanna, and Alanna what is one of your favourite things about Christmas?
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Of course getting together with family, with family awesome, and do you have any unique
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Christmas tradition?
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Our Christmas tradition as a family is on Christmas Eve we always watch, “Home Alone”
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and “Home Alone 2”.
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So you watch a movie together, that's awesome.
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Thank you very much can you say, “Merry Christmas”
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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Thank you again.
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Hey, I'm here with… John
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John, and John I'm just going to ask you a couple of questions.
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What do you like about Christmas?
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The best part about Christmas is getting together with your family.
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Ah yes.
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It's not about the presents, it's about everybody being together.
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It's having a happy day.
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Yeah, having a happy day.
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Second question, does your family do anything fun, is there a tradition that you guys do
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for Christmas that's unique or just….
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Nah, everybody usually comes to our house.
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My parents come down, in-laws come down, everybody comes to our house…
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Yep… make sure everybody's well fed.
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Big meal?
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All the fixins' Always all the fixin's.
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Very cool.
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Well thank you very much.
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Have a great day. No problem. Thank you.
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Have a Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas!
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Hey I'm here with… Carol. And she is going to answer a couple questions about Christmas.
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What do you like about Christmas?
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I love the lights, the twinkling lights, ah yes for sure, yes, and I just love that everyone
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is just usually so joyful, they are yes, and second question, does your family have any
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unique Christmas traditions?
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00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:06,760 Well we celebrate the birth of Christ, so we often go to a Christmas Eve program, yep, we have a program at our church, is that like a Christmas concert?
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Yeah, we do a Christmas concert and, yeah, just the kids love to get together and sleep
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all together in the same room, for sure, right on the floor, yeah, and just things like that.
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Christmas Eve type stuff.
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Family. Very much family. Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Thank you very much.
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Hey I'm here today with… Carla.
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Carla, Hi Carla.
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Could you tell us what do you like about Christmas?
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I like being with family and celebrating and opening presents.
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Oh presents, yeah, we didn't have anyone say that one yet, so family and presents and
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is there a Christmas tradition that you guys celebrate?
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That you could tell us about?
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We make gingerbread cookies, oh gingerbread cookies, that's awesome.
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Well thank you so much, can you say, “Merry Christmas” “Merry Christmas” Thank you,
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have a great day!
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Ok, so I'm here again with…
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James.
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James.
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Or Pastor James.
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James what's your favourite thing about Christmas.
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Christmas is family.
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Enjoying family time.
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Ah yes, and anything else?
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Yeah, well for us Christmas time is when we get together have Pepsi and cake.
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That's it.
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Very fun.
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And do you have any unique Christmas traditions?
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Ah, unique Christmas tradition?
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Nope.
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Just get together with family.
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So lots of time with family.
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Family and friends.
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Awesome.
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Could you say, “Merry Christmas” to everyone. Merry Christmas to you and may you know the reason
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for the season which is Jesus Christ.
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Awesome. Thank you very much. Have a good day.
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So I'm here with…
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Julia.
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Julia and Julia what do you like about Christmas.
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I like that we get to get to get together with our families, yes, and sing songs all
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together and everything.
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Cool.
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And do you have any unique Christmas traditions.
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Every Sunday, like twice, two weeks before Christmas we'll get together and sing German
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Christmas songs and English Christmas songs, as advent.
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Awesome, very very cool.
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Can you say Merry Christmas to everyone that's watching?
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Merry Christmas!
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Thank you very much.
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So I'm here with…
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I'm Cassandra.
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Cassandra, and Cassandra what do you like about Christmas?
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Well one thing I like about Christmas is that all of our family, extended family, gets together.
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This year we're actually hosting Christmas for the first time.
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Oh fun.
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We're expecting 35 to 40 people.
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That's a lot of people.
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All from one side of the family.
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Oh man!
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Yes.
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And do you have a favourite Christmas tradition?
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Well, I guess our Christmas tradition is that we would get up in the morning and would make
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cinnamon rolls.
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Oh fun.
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So we'd all open up presents together and then eat cinnamon rolls.
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Oh that must smell nice and taste nice.
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Yes!
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Well thank you very much, can you just say, “Merry Christmas” to everyone who's
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watching.
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Merry Christmas!
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And thanks again. You're welcome.
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Hey, so I'm here with…Bill.
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And what do you like about this time of year?
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Oh, we celebrate the winter solstice.
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Oh yes, cool.
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The rebirth of the sun. Yeah.
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So it's like, a style of pagan new year.
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And Festival of Yule.
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Oh very cool.
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And spending it with all our family, friends, and a big feast.
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Oh yeah, and what, do you have any kind of special food when you eat?
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Ham.
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Ham.
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Very cool, very cool.
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And can you just say hi to everyone who's watching.
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Hello everybody!
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Thank you very much. Thank you.
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That was awesome man, thanks.
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Hey I'm here with… Richard.
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Richard, and Richard what do you like about Christmas?
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I like Christmas just for the food, and the family, and the time off from work.
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Awesome. And do you have a Christmas tradition?
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So every year at Christmas we usually, we get these oven mitts and we get a game gift,
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and we have to wrap it in all this tape and you have to get through the layers, With the
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oven mitts? with the oven mitts on.
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So it's usually about the whole family and everyone's got to put an oven mitt on, you gotta
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try and try and pass it.
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You get five seconds and you got to pass it you got to pass it, and eventually you get
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to a prize.
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Eventually you get to a prize and then at the end of it everyone has a game gift that
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they brought and then you can choose who gets to open the first gift and then you get to
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trade it off for other gifts.
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Very very cool.
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And then lastly can you just a say Merry Christmas to everyone who's watching.
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Merry Christmas to everybody who's watching and have a Happy New Year!
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Thank you very much.
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No problem. Thank you.
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See you. Take care.
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So I'm here with…
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Chad.
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Chad, and Chad what do you like about Christmas?
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My favourite part of Christmas is spending time with my friends and family.
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Oh yes, and do you have a Christmas tradition?
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Something that's unique?
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Not really.
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I just, I enjoy making gifts for people, so I usually spend quite a bit of my December
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month making gifts for people.
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That's really really cool.
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What are some of the kinds of things you make?
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Usually just art, usually do flowers or other things.
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Very very cool.
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And could you just say Merry Christmas to everyone who's watching.
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Merry Christmas!
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Thank you very much. That's awesome man. Have a good day.
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So I'm here with…
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Christine.
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And Christine what is something you like about Christmas?
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One of the things I love about Christmas is how very very friendly people are, they make
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the extra effort to get out and say hello to someone, and there's extra courtesy,
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they're extra polite, and people have a general feeling of warmth and towards each other.
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Just happiness?
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Happiness.
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Yeah, and do you celebrate any specific Christmas tradition?
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Just mostly making a point, I'm not sure just what you mean by tradition, but making
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a point to get out and see those family members that we don't normally get to see during
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the year.
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So that was probably one of our main ones.
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Awesome.
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And if you could just say Merry Christmas to everybody.
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Ok Merry Christmas to everyone.
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And thank you again. Thank you!
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So I'm here with… Ferdinand. Ferdinand. And Brenda. And Brenda.
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And what do you guys like about Christmas?
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It's really for me it's really a time about getting together with the kids and family
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and the grandkids.
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Lots of food and I'm not supposed to have sweets, but I fall off the wagon.
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And the same for you?
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Yes, but also of course the celebration of the birth of Jesus.
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And do you have any Christmas traditions?
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They have evolved over the years.
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They're different.
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When the kids were younger we would, my background is German and Polish, and we would do midnight
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mass, and then open the presents when we come home from church.
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Cool.
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And now the kids are older, we no longer do that, but we still have Christmas, Christmas
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day.
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Yes, we're all together with our children and grandchildren and that's the important
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thing.
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And lastly, can you just say Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas everybody.
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Have a wonderful time.
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Joyeux Noël!
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Yeah, thank you very much. Oh you're very welcome.
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That's awesome.
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So I'm here with… Andrew.
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Andrew, and Andrew why do you like Christmas?
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I like Christmas cuz exams are over and I'm back in Grimsby.
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So you're a student.
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Yeah.
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So you're on a Christmas Break right now.
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Yeah I'm on a Christmas break.
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That's really awesome.
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Do you do any Christmas traditions?
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We like to order on Christmas eve, we order Chinese food from the place downtown.
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Very very cool.
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Well thanks a lot.
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Can you just say Merry Christmas to whoever is watching this later.
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Merry Christmas.
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Thanks a lot eh, have a good day.
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So I'm here with… Andrew. Andrew. Andrew how are you doing?
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I think the last person was named Andrew, oh really? actually.
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And what do you like about Christmas?
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I just like getting together with the family and enjoying good times together you know.
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And do you have any specific Christmas traditions?
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We do the turkey dinner at one of the family member's.
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And then before that I'll go to the cemetery and visit my mom and dad.
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That's what I'm here for, I bought a nice little wreath… for sure.
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And could you just say Merry Christmas to everyone who'll be watching this later.
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Merry Christmas!
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I hope everyone has a great time. Thank you.
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Thank you very much. Thanks.
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Yeah have a good day.
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Ok, so I'm here with... Shelly Shelly.
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And Shelly, what do you like about Christmas?
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Everything.
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Everything about Christmas. Everything!
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Everything. Everything about Christmas.