As you may know already from reading last year's Christmas post Christmas in Turkey is nothing like the in-your-face-can't-escape-it-as-hard-as-I-try Christmas in America. No. Christmas in Turkey is elusive. It's subtle. It's something to be celebrated and enjoyed when you come across it. Sonya, Alan and I actually took holiday pictures at a local home furnishings store, because they had Santas and trees on display, because that doesn't exist anywhere else in Alanya.
But it's something the city is working on. For the sake of the massive amount of European ex-pats living in Alanya, they're trying to step up their game and get a bit more festive. For two years running they've held a Christmas Festival down in the harbour. And for two years running our school's 2nd and 3rd grades have been asked to preform holiday songs at the festival. It's a challenging proposition, because they don't want us to sing anything TOO Christmas-y, and definitely nothing referring to a God that most Muslims don't believe it, but they want us to sing something... So we went with the Biebs. 'Cus even if you can't admit it, we all secretly love him and his super cute hair.
Enjoy:
Also we sang some Lady Gaga, 'cus we love her too.
But it's something the city is working on. For the sake of the massive amount of European ex-pats living in Alanya, they're trying to step up their game and get a bit more festive. For two years running they've held a Christmas Festival down in the harbour. And for two years running our school's 2nd and 3rd grades have been asked to preform holiday songs at the festival. It's a challenging proposition, because they don't want us to sing anything TOO Christmas-y, and definitely nothing referring to a God that most Muslims don't believe it, but they want us to sing something... So we went with the Biebs. 'Cus even if you can't admit it, we all secretly love him and his super cute hair.
Enjoy:
Also we sang some Lady Gaga, 'cus we love her too.
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I didn't know Justin did that first song,, ,it was made originally by Mariah Carey, and was very happy to see that you chose the Eh Eh, instead of Gaga's christmas song.....wow....that would have been funny all the kids singing that dirty GAGA christmas song. haha. Thats something to think about. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's actually a Mariah/ Bieber duet. But my kids don't know who Mariah is.
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