End year party

I just attended an end year party held by McGill's Ancillary services. The party took place at the new residence hall building. Although, they didn't call it christmass party, the decoration was pretty much christmass: lights, candles, christmass tree, and even santa claus.

Talking about christmass tree, there was a debate in one of the Canadian cities, I guess it was Halifax, few days ago. The people of the city gave a huge christmass tree to people in Boston. However, taking into consideration the multifaith nature of the society, people in Boston called it holiday tree, instead of Christmass tree. This made people in Halifax unhappy. They said it is a christmass tree, and it was meant to be a christmass tree. They even pass a legislation to affirm that the kind of tree with decorations that people have every end of a year is called Christmass tree !

Well, back to the Ancillary party. It was not a huge party, but it was not by any mean small. Because Ancillary services has a number of divisions, including: Printing services, mail services, copy services, course packs, and faculty club. I believe there are some others that i don't know. The foods were great: salads, pasta, salmon, baked potatoes, salsa sauce, chicken, and some other stuff. And, what will be a party without drink, at least according to Canadians? People went crazy with beer and wine. I hope they didn't forget that they have to go back to work.

I went to the party with Nick, who hesitated to come at first, but quite enjoy the party once he was there.

Daniel (my boss) told us that this was the first end year party that involved all of the people at Ancillary. There used to have end year meeting, but it was only for certain people at the top positions.

The thing that surprise me the most was the Santa Clause. I am not surprise with the fact that Santa Claus comes to a christmass party, but he comes in adult chrissmast party. So, someone dressed with a Santa clause costume and sat in front of the tree. And then, there were Christmass presents. I thought Santa Clause and Christmass presents are just for kids. What a party...