September 22, 2022 • 20 mins
Genesis Salinas, a Saint Mary's 2L, travels 3 and a half hours south of San Antonio to her hometown in the Rio Grande Valley. There, along the Texas-Mexico border, her family celebrates Christmas as she re-adjusts to what life was like before law school. The holidays, though a short time together, reminds her of the importance of family, culture and tradition
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Class action is a production of I heart radio and
sound argument. I'm at Genesis Salinas. I am a tool
at St Mary's School of Law. My brother and I
are driving back to the Rio Grand Valley from San Antonio,
(00:23):
Texas right now being surrounded by my family, my friends,
all my relatives, especially for the holidays. It's just really
great and I also just finished my semester of law school.
We finished our finals last weekend, so I'm really excited
that my family is going to be all together again
(00:44):
in the valley. The valley is just such a great place.
I feel like a lot of people don't know about it.
People think that it's desert or it's Mexico or I
used to have a friend that had found in Oklahoma
and his family would ask him like do you guys
(01:04):
see illegals running around, and I was like what? Like,
like that's so like people don't know. People will be like, Oh,
do you carry your gun everywhere you go, like is
it dangerous? Are you scared? And and it's gonna have
been salty. But when you see get questions like that
about how dangerous it was, but it's not. I feel
(01:25):
safer here in the valley than I do in San Antonio,
my home and my family's home. I have dogs. That
will be worse. Yeah, my family has a pile. I
(01:53):
don't know why. Why bark a lot more than the
people does? I'm very close to my parents. We talk
a lot. We all communicate a lot. I think you
know my favorite memories were all of us sitting in
the living room together cracking jokes, talking about our day
and things that bothered us, things we liked. My mom
(02:13):
loves Christmas, loves lights and decorating and she plugs everything
in for the night and then my dad goes and
unplugs everything because I don't know if he's just thinking,
like all the light bill you know, let me unplug him.
I saw this meme on instagram that showed like the
horoscope signs in like order of most festive, and my
(02:35):
mom's sign was like most festive, has lights on the
years round, year round, and my dad's was like the grinch,
and I was like, yeah, that makes sense. He's always
unplugging everything. If my mom didn't decorate for Christmas, he
wouldn't decorate. Like he doesn't really care. He's not about that.
So that's this is what we have. Um for Christmas.
(02:55):
We have and we also have Christmas cookies. Oh, there's
also an also lint. That happens. We love that. We
love it. The chest. Hi, my name is Maria. It
is true Selenas in Um Genesis. SELENA's farm also leches,
like a Mexican dessert with white rice, condensed milk cinnamon.
(03:22):
It's really good. I know some people will make it
and then put it in the fridge or the freezer
so that it's kind of like a Jello pastry or
like a flan pastry, but with my family we eat
it hot. We make it and then just put it
in a cup so it's nice and warm. I'm kind
of like the CHAMPO. Not Ronch is more of a
holiday dessert. So when Christmas rolls around, I always ask
(03:45):
my mom. She can't make it, and it's some sugar
and now I'm gonna add milk, so it starts getting there.
This is the way we like it. We don't like
it to dry more like a Yah. I'm letchen Look Genesis.
This is the way you make it. So if you
(04:05):
want to learn, you need to be pay attention. Yeah,
so I'm just gonna stand your weight. So it don't
be boiling and it's already can you smell it already?
It sounds trying again. And now we have a cross.
(04:34):
Is it your testimony today that you recognize one of
the defendants as one of the robbers, the man that
robbed me? Is that man sitting right over there, wearing
that blue jacket and those brands banking? You glasses, your honor?
May I approach the witness? Female. I am handing the witness.
(04:55):
Being an attorney was always my dream job, and it's
because all of my family came from Mexico and it
was an immigration attorney that helped them complete their American dream.
I don't even know her name, I don't know who
she was, um, but she really inspired me, and so
I'd like to be able to make that difference. I
want to practice personal injury, but do you immigration on
(05:19):
the side Pro Bono? You know when she got accepted
to law school and we cried so much because, you know,
I remember telling Genesis when she graduated with her bachelors,
I said, Genesis, you could be a lawyer, genesis, you
could be anything you want to. You have the potential. Um,
(05:40):
I believe in you. We believe in you and we're
going to support you all the way. Genesis, where August
going to be here for you? You You know, I'm a teacher.
You know my husband, he works at a hospital, but
we don't have a lot of money. But we told
her family were here and where you're your you know
your support. So it is it is very emotional for
(06:01):
us for genesis to be in her second year and
just later become a lawyer. Hi, Ni Um. I became
a Christian when I was little, Um, but I think
(06:21):
not until I started gaining my own independence that I
wanted to get very involved and I was trying to
be a leader at my church. Um and my parents.
Everyone is a believer, but not a practicing Christian, and
so they didn't understand why I wanted to be there.
But I feel like church just offers a very loving community. Okay, listen,
(06:50):
it's awesome to have a community Um of people that
have the same beliefs as you and have the same
foundations and Um that kind of just focuses on loving God,
don't in loving each other, Um, and I do think
that when I become an attorney, I will, you know,
factor that in and take that into consideration from all
(07:12):
of you all every I really love this pastor that
he's gonna give the sermon today. Um, I think he
was in the running for lead pastor a few years
ago and he didn't get it because the other pastor
had been here for ten, fifteen years. But he is amazing.
Jesus is destined for a painful purpose. That why is important.
(07:36):
And I don't know, play on this day we're talking
about the painful purpose of Jesus, because you're like, man,
this is supposed to be Christmas the world. Well, it's
definitely different for like the Christmas season. Uh. It kind
of made me think a lot more when he said
like Jesus purpose was painful, you know, because you start realizing,
(08:01):
you know that I mean for when everything happens for
a reason, you know, and all the pain and suffering
that you go through is for a reason. Um. And
I feel like slowly, as life starts going, you start
learning why things had to happen, um. And so, hearing that,
I want to say I thought about law school. Law
Schools painful. It's been. There's a lot of great things
(08:22):
a while law school, but it's been a really hard journey,
you know, being alone, being quarantined, studying for so many hours.
It's it's been really rough going through it and then
moving to San Antonio by myself. That was really hard.
Do you miss about? I do. It feels weird when
(08:45):
I come back, like I never left. When I come home,
I kind of forget about my life in San Antonio.
It feels like another dimension, like like a false reality.
I don't know. Um, yeah, it's funny because in San
Antonio I like it because, you know, I can go
to the grocery store and pajamas and I don't know
anyone over there and nobody knows me. So it's okay.
(09:08):
I don't really care how I look where I go,
like anywhere I go, but here, even if I'm going
to Walgreens or even if I'm going to H G B,
like I need to look decent because I will see somebody.
I know it. I will see I will know the employees. Um.
I started sending my medication to different walgreens because the
(09:28):
Walgreen's from my house I knew everyone. I knew all
like the pharmacy tax, I knew all the walgreens employees. Um.
And then, you know, any medication, it's like I'd go
to the pharmacy and everyone I knew was there and
they knew a medication I was taking a why and
how my appointment went? I don't know. It was just
it's weird. So I started setting it to another walk Greens.
(09:51):
I don't know people that Um but I love it.
I miss it. I Love San Antonia. If I get
a job offered it's Antonio when I'm out. I wouldn't
mind working there for a while, but my goal is
to come back'll be like said her. Then, well, we're
(10:14):
gonna have dinner first. Ye here at home. We were
like do the ginger bread like we're doing today. Okay, guys,
so get ready. Oh my God, we haven't done here.
So you don't know what a flight fried flower Tortilla
(10:35):
instead of putting the flower in them. Yeah, I'm through
SALNA Jr. I'm the Father Jenesis Selena's. When jenesis first
started going to school, remb prekinder didn't know English, English
well school, and you know, I'll go pick grow up
(10:56):
and you know, you know, she's not in this classroom.
Why on? Because do you know how to speak English?
So we'll put in another glass and I was like why?
What do you mean to don't know his beginness and
I had noticed because, you know, we didn't. Yes, but
(11:17):
she didn't because her grandma was taking too. So after that,
you know, at night I would be reading to her,
you know, stories, so she could learn English, because she
didn't know. I was four years old, she was born.
She didn't know because my mom took care of her
and raised her since she was born and she only
(11:42):
knows Spanish. What about Christis? When you workid did you
sell her? Did you ever get to celebrate Christmas in Mexico?
In Mexico, you know, what was it like as a
as a Hispanic household in the sixties, seventies? What was
slight for you? You know, I didn't really experience it
(12:03):
that much. What was that? I don't know. You know,
I grew up in a in a ranch. It was
only about, you know, fifty houses. The nearest town was
like twenty miles. We had no electricity. We had no
electricity until like when I was seven or eight years old,
and we didn't have no no resources. You know, it
(12:24):
was very, really poor. We had no running water. What
was the Food Christmas? What? What? What would you know,
your mom? You know, I came to United States when
I was ten years old. So, but in Mexico, where were,
your mom cooked for you and we used to form
a lot. We form corn, beans, squash, candaloupe, watermelon, whatever
(12:49):
we form, you know, that's what we ate. And you know,
my dad grew up in a shepherd you know, my
grandpa had like two hundred goats. So all the mediday
was goat. They would kill a baby coat like every
every week or every two weeks, and that's all they ate.
And the beans, well, they grew the beans. The only
(13:13):
thing they had to buy was, I think, rice and potatoes,
because the corn, you know, you're in the corn. You know,
we used to, you know, make the tortillas with Thesaman,
my grandma, you don't have to, and then from there
to made the tortillas. So everything, you know, we have.
We almost had everything there, but you know, I didn't.
(13:35):
I wasn't in a city like a ster. Grew up
in the city and they had more traditions, more resources.
But why where I grew up? But there was no,
no resources. There was more ranch sports, Monta. We had
no electricity. That I remember. The winters, they were called
my dad. Every morning he would um wake up early,
(14:01):
before school and make breakfast. Um, but he would make
like a Mexican breakfast, like a Chodi saw and ch egg,
or he would make megas cut up with the egg,
and so he used to get up and make on
this fancy breakfast and sometimes we wouldn't eat it and
I wouldn't think about it when I was younger. But like,
making breakfast for somebody like takes time, you know, it
(14:26):
takes time and effort, and so the fact that he
would make breakfast every morning and we would never eat it,
like it just makes me sad thinking about now, like
it's sad now. If he makes breakfast, I'm like, Oh, like, yeah,
you're more aware. You're like, Oh, you're spending groceries on me,
you're spending time to wake up early and make food
for me. Um. So now I make sure to eat,
(14:48):
even if I'm eating already, if I come from somewhere. No, no,
it's falling apart. Na Genesis has just lost the competition.
Her train, her gingerbread train, has quite literally become gingerbread
(15:11):
train wreck. You know, that's the Spanish also tradition, I believe. Literally,
I was looking at it and I was like, Oh
my God, it looks so, so beautiful. My name is
Jay Um, genesis younger brother. I'm twenty years old. I'm
a senior AT U T R G V and I
(15:32):
hope to be a lawyer and go to law school
just like Genesis. One day. When we were younger, how
we did Christmas was, I would say, you know, speaking
about it like from Hispanic perspective, was like we didn't
really open our gifts on the morning of Christmas Day,
like I would see kind of like displayed in American culture.
(15:55):
We would open them Christmas Eve at my uncle's house
and we would all be got us in our you know,
maybe thirty person party. But yeah, we would. We would
open our presents together on Christmas Eve. Christmas, as we
knew it, was more so like a night thing. We
rarely woke up and opened our gifts on Christmas Day.
(16:17):
We made it a habit of opening them with our cousins,
with our other family members. Christmas. Opened some gifts here,
because I would not take when we when we were younger,
mom and dad, it used to say like that the
presence that we'd open over there my uncles were from
them and then on the when we woke up there
(16:40):
was new presents and those were from Santa Um. So
for a while we did do both. Yeah, and one
of our favorite holiday songs is called I actually don't
(17:05):
know what that means in English. What does that mean?
What does that mean? What is means? We're to Mexican. Yeah,
it's funny. It's like a Spanish songs. It's not a
Spanish song, it's a Christmas Carol. Okay, it's called in Spanish.
(17:28):
They're called the JANICUS and basically a burritosh do. Yes,
so basically represents it's Sane Innando. That's when Virgin Mary Right,
and she was pregnant and they were they came in
a dock. Yes, they were looking for yes, and it
(17:49):
says Boa, Camino a velline, okay, to Bethlehem, yes, okay.
So it's like, you know, it's all happy. Okay. So
it's saying Um, like talking to the donkey, like get ready,
we're going to Bethlehem, um. And it's a happy, joyful
song because because, uh, the baby Jesus was going to
(18:10):
be born, and that's why, m H. I mean. Yeah,
so this is the song. It's a it's a Christmas
carol in Spanish. Yeah, it's sunny. We were seeing it.
I never need it met. Uh. This is like for
(18:37):
us too. It brings us together. You know, now that
they have grown up, it's it has gotten super, super busy. Uh,
that you know, this is a way of just bringing
all of us together, like we're here, we're helping them,
and you know, I really, I really enjoyed this. We
(18:58):
cried a lot. We were sad because we're always together.
But Um, but we understand, right. Yeah, I guess, because
we think you're just temporary. That's that's one of my
dreams for both of them to work together. Um, from
(19:18):
law school, graduate attorneys. Yes, law firm named Salinas and Salinas.
I really love coming home and catching up with everyone, Um,
and I feel more free, I feel more relieved being
in the valley. I feel like myself again. I don't
(19:39):
feel like a full time law student under the same pressure,
and I'm really, Um excited to have this next month
off so we can all be together again as a family. Yeah,
(20:04):
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(20:25):
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Class action is a production of I heart radio and
sound argument. I'm at Genesis Salinas. I am a tool
at St Mary's School of Law. My brother and I
are driving back to the Rio Grand Valley from San Antonio,
(00:23):
Texas right now being surrounded by my family, my friends,
all my relatives, especially for the holidays. It's just really
great and I also just finished my semester of law school.
We finished our finals last weekend, so I'm really excited
that my family is going to be all together again
(00:44):
in the valley. The valley is just such a great place.
I feel like a lot of people don't know about it.
People think that it's desert or it's Mexico or I
used to have a friend that had found in Oklahoma
and his family would ask him like do you guys
(01:04):
see illegals running around, and I was like what? Like,
like that's so like people don't know. People will be like, Oh,
do you carry your gun everywhere you go, like is
it dangerous? Are you scared? And and it's gonna have
been salty. But when you see get questions like that
about how dangerous it was, but it's not. I feel
(01:25):
safer here in the valley than I do in San Antonio,
my home and my family's home. I have dogs. That
will be worse. Yeah, my family has a pile. I
(01:53):
don't know why. Why bark a lot more than the
people does? I'm very close to my parents. We talk
a lot. We all communicate a lot. I think you
know my favorite memories were all of us sitting in
the living room together cracking jokes, talking about our day
and things that bothered us, things we liked. My mom
(02:13):
loves Christmas, loves lights and decorating and she plugs everything
in for the night and then my dad goes and
unplugs everything because I don't know if he's just thinking,
like all the light bill you know, let me unplug him.
I saw this meme on instagram that showed like the
horoscope signs in like order of most festive, and my
(02:35):
mom's sign was like most festive, has lights on the
years round, year round, and my dad's was like the grinch,
and I was like, yeah, that makes sense. He's always
unplugging everything. If my mom didn't decorate for Christmas, he
wouldn't decorate. Like he doesn't really care. He's not about that.
So that's this is what we have. Um for Christmas.
(02:55):
We have and we also have Christmas cookies. Oh, there's
also an also lint. That happens. We love that. We
love it. The chest. Hi, my name is Maria. It
is true Selenas in Um Genesis. SELENA's farm also leches,
like a Mexican dessert with white rice, condensed milk cinnamon.
(03:22):
It's really good. I know some people will make it
and then put it in the fridge or the freezer
so that it's kind of like a Jello pastry or
like a flan pastry, but with my family we eat
it hot. We make it and then just put it
in a cup so it's nice and warm. I'm kind
of like the CHAMPO. Not Ronch is more of a
holiday dessert. So when Christmas rolls around, I always ask
(03:45):
my mom. She can't make it, and it's some sugar
and now I'm gonna add milk, so it starts getting there.
This is the way we like it. We don't like
it to dry more like a Yah. I'm letchen Look Genesis.
This is the way you make it. So if you
(04:05):
want to learn, you need to be pay attention. Yeah,
so I'm just gonna stand your weight. So it don't
be boiling and it's already can you smell it already?
It sounds trying again. And now we have a cross.
(04:34):
Is it your testimony today that you recognize one of
the defendants as one of the robbers, the man that
robbed me? Is that man sitting right over there, wearing
that blue jacket and those brands banking? You glasses, your honor?
May I approach the witness? Female. I am handing the witness.
(04:55):
Being an attorney was always my dream job, and it's
because all of my family came from Mexico and it
was an immigration attorney that helped them complete their American dream.
I don't even know her name, I don't know who
she was, um, but she really inspired me, and so
I'd like to be able to make that difference. I
want to practice personal injury, but do you immigration on
(05:19):
the side Pro Bono? You know when she got accepted
to law school and we cried so much because, you know,
I remember telling Genesis when she graduated with her bachelors,
I said, Genesis, you could be a lawyer, genesis, you
could be anything you want to. You have the potential. Um,
(05:40):
I believe in you. We believe in you and we're
going to support you all the way. Genesis, where August
going to be here for you? You You know, I'm a teacher.
You know my husband, he works at a hospital, but
we don't have a lot of money. But we told
her family were here and where you're your you know
your support. So it is it is very emotional for
(06:01):
us for genesis to be in her second year and
just later become a lawyer. Hi, Ni Um. I became
a Christian when I was little, Um, but I think
(06:21):
not until I started gaining my own independence that I
wanted to get very involved and I was trying to
be a leader at my church. Um and my parents.
Everyone is a believer, but not a practicing Christian, and
so they didn't understand why I wanted to be there.
But I feel like church just offers a very loving community. Okay, listen,
(06:50):
it's awesome to have a community Um of people that
have the same beliefs as you and have the same
foundations and Um that kind of just focuses on loving God,
don't in loving each other, Um, and I do think
that when I become an attorney, I will, you know,
factor that in and take that into consideration from all
(07:12):
of you all every I really love this pastor that
he's gonna give the sermon today. Um, I think he
was in the running for lead pastor a few years
ago and he didn't get it because the other pastor
had been here for ten, fifteen years. But he is amazing.
Jesus is destined for a painful purpose. That why is important.
(07:36):
And I don't know, play on this day we're talking
about the painful purpose of Jesus, because you're like, man,
this is supposed to be Christmas the world. Well, it's
definitely different for like the Christmas season. Uh. It kind
of made me think a lot more when he said
like Jesus purpose was painful, you know, because you start realizing,
(08:01):
you know that I mean for when everything happens for
a reason, you know, and all the pain and suffering
that you go through is for a reason. Um. And
I feel like slowly, as life starts going, you start
learning why things had to happen, um. And so, hearing that,
I want to say I thought about law school. Law
Schools painful. It's been. There's a lot of great things
(08:22):
a while law school, but it's been a really hard journey,
you know, being alone, being quarantined, studying for so many hours.
It's it's been really rough going through it and then
moving to San Antonio by myself. That was really hard.
Do you miss about? I do. It feels weird when
(08:45):
I come back, like I never left. When I come home,
I kind of forget about my life in San Antonio.
It feels like another dimension, like like a false reality.
I don't know. Um, yeah, it's funny because in San
Antonio I like it because, you know, I can go
to the grocery store and pajamas and I don't know
anyone over there and nobody knows me. So it's okay.
(09:08):
I don't really care how I look where I go,
like anywhere I go, but here, even if I'm going
to Walgreens or even if I'm going to H G B,
like I need to look decent because I will see somebody.
I know it. I will see I will know the employees. Um.
I started sending my medication to different walgreens because the
(09:28):
Walgreen's from my house I knew everyone. I knew all
like the pharmacy tax, I knew all the walgreens employees. Um.
And then, you know, any medication, it's like I'd go
to the pharmacy and everyone I knew was there and
they knew a medication I was taking a why and
how my appointment went? I don't know. It was just
it's weird. So I started setting it to another walk Greens.
(09:51):
I don't know people that Um but I love it.
I miss it. I Love San Antonia. If I get
a job offered it's Antonio when I'm out. I wouldn't
mind working there for a while, but my goal is
to come back'll be like said her. Then, well, we're
(10:14):
gonna have dinner first. Ye here at home. We were
like do the ginger bread like we're doing today. Okay, guys,
so get ready. Oh my God, we haven't done here.
So you don't know what a flight fried flower Tortilla
(10:35):
instead of putting the flower in them. Yeah, I'm through
SALNA Jr. I'm the Father Jenesis Selena's. When jenesis first
started going to school, remb prekinder didn't know English, English
well school, and you know, I'll go pick grow up
(10:56):
and you know, you know, she's not in this classroom.
Why on? Because do you know how to speak English?
So we'll put in another glass and I was like why?
What do you mean to don't know his beginness and
I had noticed because, you know, we didn't. Yes, but
(11:17):
she didn't because her grandma was taking too. So after that,
you know, at night I would be reading to her,
you know, stories, so she could learn English, because she
didn't know. I was four years old, she was born.
She didn't know because my mom took care of her
and raised her since she was born and she only
(11:42):
knows Spanish. What about Christis? When you workid did you
sell her? Did you ever get to celebrate Christmas in Mexico?
In Mexico, you know, what was it like as a
as a Hispanic household in the sixties, seventies? What was
slight for you? You know, I didn't really experience it
(12:03):
that much. What was that? I don't know. You know,
I grew up in a in a ranch. It was
only about, you know, fifty houses. The nearest town was
like twenty miles. We had no electricity. We had no
electricity until like when I was seven or eight years old,
and we didn't have no no resources. You know, it
(12:24):
was very, really poor. We had no running water. What
was the Food Christmas? What? What? What would you know,
your mom? You know, I came to United States when
I was ten years old. So, but in Mexico, where were,
your mom cooked for you and we used to form
a lot. We form corn, beans, squash, candaloupe, watermelon, whatever
(12:49):
we form, you know, that's what we ate. And you know,
my dad grew up in a shepherd you know, my
grandpa had like two hundred goats. So all the mediday
was goat. They would kill a baby coat like every
every week or every two weeks, and that's all they ate.
And the beans, well, they grew the beans. The only
(13:13):
thing they had to buy was, I think, rice and potatoes,
because the corn, you know, you're in the corn. You know,
we used to, you know, make the tortillas with Thesaman,
my grandma, you don't have to, and then from there
to made the tortillas. So everything, you know, we have.
We almost had everything there, but you know, I didn't.
(13:35):
I wasn't in a city like a ster. Grew up
in the city and they had more traditions, more resources.
But why where I grew up? But there was no,
no resources. There was more ranch sports, Monta. We had
no electricity. That I remember. The winters, they were called
my dad. Every morning he would um wake up early,
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before school and make breakfast. Um, but he would make
like a Mexican breakfast, like a Chodi saw and ch egg,
or he would make megas cut up with the egg,
and so he used to get up and make on
this fancy breakfast and sometimes we wouldn't eat it and
I wouldn't think about it when I was younger. But like,
making breakfast for somebody like takes time, you know, it
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takes time and effort, and so the fact that he
would make breakfast every morning and we would never eat it,
like it just makes me sad thinking about now, like
it's sad now. If he makes breakfast, I'm like, Oh, like, yeah,
you're more aware. You're like, Oh, you're spending groceries on me,
you're spending time to wake up early and make food
for me. Um. So now I make sure to eat,
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even if I'm eating already, if I come from somewhere. No, no,
it's falling apart. Na Genesis has just lost the competition.
Her train, her gingerbread train, has quite literally become gingerbread
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train wreck. You know, that's the Spanish also tradition, I believe. Literally,
I was looking at it and I was like, Oh
my God, it looks so, so beautiful. My name is
Jay Um, genesis younger brother. I'm twenty years old. I'm
a senior AT U T R G V and I
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hope to be a lawyer and go to law school
just like Genesis. One day. When we were younger, how
we did Christmas was, I would say, you know, speaking
about it like from Hispanic perspective, was like we didn't
really open our gifts on the morning of Christmas Day,
like I would see kind of like displayed in American culture.
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We would open them Christmas Eve at my uncle's house
and we would all be got us in our you know,
maybe thirty person party. But yeah, we would. We would
open our presents together on Christmas Eve. Christmas, as we
knew it, was more so like a night thing. We
rarely woke up and opened our gifts on Christmas Day.
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We made it a habit of opening them with our cousins,
with our other family members. Christmas. Opened some gifts here,
because I would not take when we when we were younger,
mom and dad, it used to say like that the
presence that we'd open over there my uncles were from
them and then on the when we woke up there
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was new presents and those were from Santa Um. So
for a while we did do both. Yeah, and one
of our favorite holiday songs is called I actually don't
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know what that means in English. What does that mean?
What does that mean? What is means? We're to Mexican. Yeah,
it's funny. It's like a Spanish songs. It's not a
Spanish song, it's a Christmas Carol. Okay, it's called in Spanish.
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They're called the JANICUS and basically a burritosh do. Yes,
so basically represents it's Sane Innando. That's when Virgin Mary Right,
and she was pregnant and they were they came in
a dock. Yes, they were looking for yes, and it
(17:49):
says Boa, Camino a velline, okay, to Bethlehem, yes, okay.
So it's like, you know, it's all happy. Okay. So
it's saying Um, like talking to the donkey, like get ready,
we're going to Bethlehem, um. And it's a happy, joyful
song because because, uh, the baby Jesus was going to
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be born, and that's why, m H. I mean. Yeah,
so this is the song. It's a it's a Christmas
carol in Spanish. Yeah, it's sunny. We were seeing it.
I never need it met. Uh. This is like for
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us too. It brings us together. You know, now that
they have grown up, it's it has gotten super, super busy. Uh,
that you know, this is a way of just bringing
all of us together, like we're here, we're helping them,
and you know, I really, I really enjoyed this. We
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cried a lot. We were sad because we're always together.
But Um, but we understand, right. Yeah, I guess, because
we think you're just temporary. That's that's one of my
dreams for both of them to work together. Um, from
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law school, graduate attorneys. Yes, law firm named Salinas and Salinas.
I really love coming home and catching up with everyone, Um,
and I feel more free, I feel more relieved being
in the valley. I feel like myself again. I don't
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feel like a full time law student under the same pressure,
and I'm really, Um excited to have this next month
off so we can all be together again as a family. Yeah,
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