Christmas lottery
The first day of christmas, Spanish people celebrate a lottery, it's the biggest in the world.
There's one big prize and even thirteen more smaller prizes. People are very fond of Spanish lottery and specially in times of crisis they hope to get some money. Every 22nd of December I have breakfast while I watch the drawing on Tv to check if any of our tickets is the winner. My mother has just won 100 euros with her number 46754 .
The draw starts at 9am and it lasts two or three hours. A boy and a girl (originally from an orphan school) draw the numbers and their prizes singing the results in a monotonous tone. When they sing a prize both children repeat their singing multipletimes,and show the balls to a committee There's a general happiness, a lot of journalists interviewing the winners and broadcasting the numbers on the radio also. People go to the theatre where the draw takes place in costume dresses. People usually share the tickets with their family, friends and workmates so thats why they celebrate together that they have won.
. Here you can see a ticket which costs 20 euros. I'm happy when the winners are people who really need it
because these prizes can solve their problems.
The draw starts at 9am and it lasts two or three hours. A boy and a girl (originally from an orphan school) draw the numbers and their prizes singing the results in a monotonous tone. When they sing a prize both children repeat their singing multipletimes,and show the balls to a committee There's a general happiness, a lot of journalists interviewing the winners and broadcasting the numbers on the radio also. People go to the theatre where the draw takes place in costume dresses. People usually share the tickets with their family, friends and workmates so thats why they celebrate together that they have won.
. Here you can see a ticket which costs 20 euros. I'm happy when the winners are people who really need it
because these prizes can solve their problems.
