The tradition

Since my parents divorced, I tried to keep alive the tradition of my father in Independence Day holidays: the barbecue. Well, almost every weekend of summer my dad made barbecued meat, but in these date, the barbecue is like a tradition (I mean, make the barbecue). Often I helped to my father with it and we usually made “choripan”, that is a bread with a “chorizo” or “longaniza” inside. I always ate two or three of these and then we lunched with all the family (My parents, my sister and I). I love this “tradition” because, until my parents divorced, announced the beginning of the barbecue periods.

Other thing that we usually did in these days, was go in family to the “fondas” and played typical games, like “la rana” (the frog), that consist on throw a little disk in a board with holes and every hole has a score, so if you make a high score, you win a price. Also, we played another but not to much typical games, like hit canes with a ball.

This year, I spend these long holidays in Valdivia, with my boyfriend’s family. In there, most of the times they don’t do anything, but this year I wake up early and with my boyfriend’s father, we made a barbecue, ate “choripanes” and lunched the meat with all the family, in this case, my boyfriend and his brothers, parents and me. In the afternoon we went to “Parque Saval”, where were the “fondas”. As the tradition, I played “la rana” and other games, so I enjoyed these Independence Days holidays, cause I could keep the tradition alive.