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During one of the Christmas’ journeys that did Santa Claus, he suddenly lost one of his eight magic reindeers because of the storm that he has got to. The storm was so big and strong that it broke his sleigh and he fell in Mostoles, Spain.

He fell in a field and lost consciousness. When he came to his mind, some farmers were holding medicines, and a soup that they made for him Santa was lying on a small, not very comfortable, old bed and he could see his reindeers outside the house, waiting for him next to the broken sleigh But he noticed something weird and then understood that he had only 7 reindeers instead of 8! He stand up, drank the soup, thanked the farmers by giving them presents for helping him, and immediately started running to fix the sleigh. He used his magic to do so, and the sleigh was completely rebuilt. Santa ordered his reindeers to stay near the sleigh, while he will try to find the missing reindeer.

That’s when this story really begins, a story about one of the eight Santa’s reindeers that has been lost in a Spanish municipality named Mostoles.

The lost reindeer’s name was Dancer, and as she came back to her mind in a trash container, she started remembering what happened to her and where are her sisters and Santa When she got out of the trash container, she looked around to understand where she is located. She took some clothes from the trash container, and put them on as best as she could The sweater had drawn Santa Claus, and her sisters, reindeers along with the sleigh. She looked at it and dropped a tear. She took a deep breath and started walking down the street. People were obviously very surprised seeing a reindeer walking down the street, so Dancer understood that her disguise is not working, so she turned into a toy shop and hid in a little toy house. She stayed there for a night, thinking what to do. Meanwhile, Santa was looking for Dancer, and people were doing a lot of photos of him and were saying that he looked very similar to the real Santa Claus. That comments were very funny to Santa so he just smiled while he was walking between streets. Time passed but they couldn’t find each other.

The next day

Both of them knew that they are late for bringing presents for everybody, so they went to “Pradillo” to pray in front of a very beautiful Christmas tree made of iron and lots of light bulbs. Both of them, prayed at the same time, for the same thing. To find and see each other again and to deliver the presents to the families that are waiting for them. Both Santa and Dancer wanted the same and as they stood up they saw each other and full of tears ran to hug each other once for a long time.

The Christmas was saved; they only needed to hurry a little to deliver all the presents before the end of the day. So, eventually they did it, and were happier than ever.

THE MOST EXPECTED GIFT!!!!!

A long time ago, in a very large wooden house, there lived a boy named Daniel. He had a dog named Kira. His parents worked all day and he stayed with his grandparents until his parents came home from work at night. The house was on top of the hill and they could only go down to town by car.

It snowed a lot there and he always played with his friends to jump on the sleigh in the snow Daniel turned 3 years old and started going to school There he met many boys and girls and at Christmas time they began to write letters to Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men Those days were magical days in which all the children were happier than ever and Santa Claus arrived in his great sleigh pulled by his reindeer to deliver all the gifts from all the letters he had received. This is how the years went by and when Daniel was 5 years old he asked for a very special gift that he did not know if Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men could bring him. He wrote many letters. He went down with his grandfather every day to the mailbox so he could throw them out, and he prayed every night for his dream to come true. Daniel no longer wanted cars, trucks, or stuffed animals... This time he wanted what many of his friends had and he didn't: a little brother.

I remember that night as if it were today, by the tree... with my grandparents, mom, dad, all having dinner together... I couldn't fall asleep, I just looked out the window while the snowflakes fell I went to bed and mom and dad told me that I had to dream about the Magic of Christmas and that Santa Claus was watching me and that only he would make my dream come true. I finally fell asleep... but suddenly in the middle of the night I heard a sound, and Kira's barking downstairs.

I ran down the stairs. Kira kept wagging her tail and spinning around on a pink basket. Little by little I got closer and I saw a crying baby, but when he looked into my eyes he fell silent. I just screamed:

-Mom! Dad! SANTA CLAUS BROUGHT IT TO ME. CHRISTMAS IS MAGICAL. I FINALLY HAVE MY LONG AWAITED GIFT!

-Yes.- Mom told me.

-She's a little sister- Mom continued.- Daniel, she's your little sister for life in which you're going to be the protagonist of what you want her to be called I looked at my grandparents who were both crying with emotion and I told them:

-My little sister will be called Lucia and it is the best gift in the world.- I said with a lot of emotion.

And since then, she and I are one, and I want everyone to dream and believe in Christmas.

Hi! I´m Stanley an I´m going to tell you why Christmas almost disappeared because of me me

This was the night of Christmas, when I was sleeping and I heard a sound. I woke up and I saw Santa Claus, so because I am so gossip I got into the Santa Claus carousel looking for my presents, then I discovered that they were behind my Christmas tree but it was too late I realized that Santa was in the carousel and he didn´t see me.

Suddenly I was fying with Santa Claus!!! It was amazing!!!

When we arrived in Finland, he saw me. He asked me why was there, so I told him the truth. He told me that what I did was wrong, and because of that I got angry. I was so disgusted, that I ran into the house of Santa and I stole all the presents of all the people around the workd that I could. I stole his carousel too and I ran away. He persecuted me with another carousel that was slower than mine. I escaped form him, but I didn´t know what to do, so I wen to desert because no one was going t osee me with the carousel of Santa and with all the presents.

I tried to call my brother because in that situation I thought that he was going to help. me, but he told me the unique thing that I thougt that he wasn't going to tell me: "you are crazy and you have to come back home now, and if you don't come home now, you'll break the dreams of all the children in the work". In that moment I realized of what I was doing, so I decided that I had to salved it.

I went to Santa's house an I apologised. He accepted my apology, but he told me that the hurt was done, because the time of th night was over, so he couldn't give the presents wich weren't given.

For the first time the children would run out of gift, but I couldn let it.

I told to Santa, that because of me we had tihis problem, so I had to fix it

I had an idea. I could give all the presents saying that I was the helper of Santa Claus and that he had coronavirus, so becasue of it, he was not available them. Also all my presents will be giving to poor children, witch couldn't make their own letter. He also told me that he was agree and that he was so proud with me.

In this wasy, what at first looks that it was going to be the worst night of my life became in my best dream. Not only I could make the function of helper of Santa , almost I could enjoy of the hapiiness and ilusión of the children when they recived their prensents.

I never liked Christmas before. I understood that it used to be celebrated because of religion, but today? Was just an excuse for big companies to make money on gifts. However, everything changed last Christmas.

As every year we meet at the grandparents' house with all my uncles and cousins, despite being many the grandmother always organized everything decorating the house and with a big Christmas tree, she unlike me, loved Christmas and as the grandfather says she was “the representation of the Christmas spirit” and I was “the young Grinch ”

The house was always full of noise, my cousins were running around while they were playing We had eaten a big dinner as always and at the end everyone started singing carols, despite the insistence of my whole family, I stayed on the sofa watching a movie that I had downloaded with my mobile phone. Finally we played bingo, the only Christmas tradition that I liked. I was always encouraged to win some money, and even if I didn’t win it if the grandparents gave it to us to the grandchildren.

Everything would have been a normal Christmas, nothing important in my opinion if it hadn’t been for the call the next day. We were at home finishing preparing the outfits when the phone started ringing and Mom picked it up. His face at that moment was as white as snow and without saying much more we all set off

We didn’t have much information until we arrived at the hospital From what the grandfather told us, that morning the grandmother got up and got dizzy and they had to call the ambulance. It was several hours of not knowing exactly what was going to happen. It was three o’clock in the afternoon when the doctor came out to tell us the news. Apparently Grandma’s responding well and might recover.

That’s when I realized how quickly things can change in one day. When I started to appreciate the little time with the family. From that moment on I understood that Christmas is an opportunity to spend it all with the people who love us and share anecdotes and celebrate life

It was a pleasant December night. All the members of the family were gathered together at Toms uncle house to celebrate Christmas

María and Lendi were in the guest room, Osam and Adlof were in the main room and the two Grandparents were inside their room; all of them sleeping pleasantly.

But in the living room all the kids of the family, Lucio, Moira, Winton, Anya and Marcus were fully awake trying to not make any noise, doing all kind of activities as if they were goblins working on a factory on the last days before Xmas.

"We have to get to sleep soon or mom will get angry." Said Moira. "And we don't want that, do we?" She asked her brother Lucio

"No!" He said, shaking his head.

"Now you will go to sleep or I'll take away your pillow."

Winton shook his head too "I don't care! We're going to stay up until morning "

Lucio got off the couch he was sitting on. "Ok, I have an idea." Lucio said. "We should go to the basement and make a plan to decorate all the house without waking up the adults. We should have 6 more hours until they get up. What do you guys think?".

All kids agreed with him, so they went downstairs

They got to the basement and started planning how they were going to decorate the house.

"Hey, we should think of something original, the house is partially decorated and we do not have much time " Said Anya

"We ought to start by the outside." So, being as silent and fast as possible, they took some linterns and went outside.

The first thing they did was put lights around the front door. Then they made a snowman out of plasticine. After that they tried to put the old tree in the corner, but it was too big for it to enter, so they had to move it to the center of the entrance.

"Woop! Thats it for the outside." "We better enter inside, it is freezing here." Winton said. So they went inside and continued to decorate the house

They wrapped fake presents under the tree. They also hung wreaths and garlands everywhere. Finally they finished putting the lights on the roof Lendi started putting the day before.

After all the work, the kids prepared the breakfast for their family and decided to get some chocolate milk and be together in the living room until everyone got up. It was one hour before the sunrise and all the kids were completely asleep.

The two grandparents woke up just when the sun began to rise. They noticed all the things the kids made, and, with an enormous smile and feeling of proudness for them, they took all of their presents and put them on the tree. Then they had the breakfast the kids prepared while they watched them sleeping one on top of another in the sofa.

As the sun rose and the adults started waking up, they saw that everything was ready: the presents, the tree, the decorations and the breakfast. Everything was perfect, except for the fact that the house looked like Santa's workshop.

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Azahara Calero

Alejandro Martín

María Carretero

Alonso Centenera

Nikolay Retinski

Cristina Chico

Christian Jiménez

Jorge Pascual

Rocío Muñoz

Gloria Gancedo

Adrián Carretero

Redacción

Vicente González-Horcajo

Gema Manrique

Begoña Martínez

Julián López

Ana Castro

Gemma Anguix

María Rojo

Antonio Saavedra

Patricia Montes

Gemma Anguix

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Marta Jiménez

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Rebecca Gabriel

Paula Gómez

Esmeralda Muñoz

Andrea Ndongo

Verónica López

Luz Nguema

Jimena Alejandro

Laura Vicente

Daniel Jigah

Claudia Magariño

Alejandra Moreno

Carla Sánchez

Bárbara Marián

Belén Fuentes

Cristina E. Muñoz

Daniela García

Paula Pecellín

Derek Cruz

Mónica Zapien

Laura Nicolás

Ariadna Sánchez

Jorge Muñoz

Alejandra Cubillas

Alonso Centenera

Marcos Fernández

Cristina Chico

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