Madrid, December 19 (EFE) .- The 22 children chosen this year to spread the luck in the draw for the Christmas Lottery, many Latin Americans have two months rehearsing for “sing” awards on December 22 , as is tradition in Spain.
The voices of students from Madrid Colegio de San Ildefonso singing lottery becomes the ambient sound around the country on the morning of December 22 and marks the beginning of the parties.
This draw, the most popular of Spain, is made the traditional way, with great hype that contains all the numbers in play and another in which the balls are the awards and two pairs of children take turns singing the balls coming out of both vessels.
Of the 60 children who live in boarding Residencia San Ildefonso, 11 boys and 11 girls between 9 and 13 are responsible for remove the balls and singing numbers and awards, told Efe director, Esperato Fernández, but everyone expects forward to “El Gordo” (main prize).
“Of course I would be the one sing El Gordo, anyone would want, “says one of the girls, aged 13, who for the second year participating in the Sweepstakes but says he is” less nervous “as above.
” To me I have removed the nerves, “says Ismael 12 years, because this will be his fourth time in 2012 and also sang” El Gordo “-the 76.058- and acknowledges that if it happens again this year” would feel great joy ” .
For Dani, 11, and Cuban, will be the first time and says that sings “very well”, although he admits that does not want to touch the ball of 60,000 euros because it is wrong to say the number.
On the directions given to children for the Sweepstakes, Esperato Fernandez explains that this is “very mythologized” because “make normal life and start to get nervous the day before.” “They are thugs, which is different,” he jokes.
The residence offers the activity of lotteries, which are targeted 42 children and among them is chosen to participating in the Sweepstakes Christmas.
Why do so many in this activity are targeted? “Most people want to do, is a hallmark of the children here because since come see it,” said Fernandez.
The most complicated selection comes when they have to choose pairs to children sing the awards. “We find it hard to have two homogeneous voices to sing the prize,” the deputy director of the residence, Pedro Vazquez, who spent 18 years teaching children to sing.
As this year’s December 22 It’s Monday, the boys sleep in their homes and will meet at eight o’clock at the residence, there will walk to the Royal Theatre, where the draw will take place.
Many former students return to school for testing and drawings, as in the case of Fernando Vázquez, who sang the Gordo in 1954.
“Da joy and since then want to reach people in need and is much distributed,” says . EFE
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