KM Stories

Multinational Christmas

I celebrate three Christmases. Christmas is dedicated every other year to the US, where I was born. It is almost as if entering a winter wonderland at Christmas time, as neighborhoods are illuminated with clusters of twinkling lights and Walmart Santas are seated on every other rooftop (any excuse for commercialism in America). However, my Christmas is not spent in a magnificently embellished house such as these. My grandmother refuses to take down the elephant paintings and Zulu warrior shields hung proudly on her walls representing her South African heritage, and the extent of her decorating is a Christmas tumbleweed (seriously) rather than a tree. So instead of spending Christmas with snowmen, I spend it on safari.