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Download My favorite holiday is New Year's Day. New Year's Day comes ... and more Assignments Spanish Culture in PDF only on Docsity! My favorite holiday is New Year’s Day. New Year’s Day comes once in a year and is a special day throughout the world. All people in the universe recognize this day because it is the beginning day of the year, which is the first day of January. The weather is usually cold by that period. On the 31st of December, I usually gather my family together to give praises to God starting at 11:00 pm until 1:00 am. At 10:00 am, I usually go to church with my family. After arriving home from church, my family and friends usually have a get together party with various kinds of food that would have been prepared to eat, such as pounded yam, rice and beans, and turkey. After eating, I used to give out some gifts to my friends. -Amos Olojede My favorite holiday is Independence Day. On September 15, hundreds of thousands of people come to the zólalo for one moment, the midnight of Mexican Independence Day. Fireworks flash, flags wave, the president and his family step onto the balcony at the national palace. The president rings a bell, and shouts ¡Viva México! The crowd shouts back ¡Viva México! Mexico gained independence from the Spanish in 1821. Independence Day is celebrated on September 16, the day Hidalgo started a revolution in Delores, Juanajuato in 1810. ¡Viva México! -Ubaldo Ortega My favorite holiday is Christmas. The date is the 24th of December. The weather is usually cold. On that day, I am usually with my family at my house. A typical food for the holiday is fish and potato salad, cabbage soup, fish, and mushroom soup. I like this holiday because my family is together and we don’t have to worry about anything, just enjoying the holiday and trying to make others happy. -Ondrej Mazanovsky Hello. I’m Emmanuel Arias from San Felipe, Guanajuato, Mexico. My favorite holiday is Christmas, or la navidad, which is the time when family is back in town for gathering at my father’s house. We celebrate Christmas on December 25. This celebration is in memory of Jesus being born. This event is religious, and we call it “el acostamiento del niño Jésus.” I celebrate with all the family: my mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, and some of the neighbors. In the daytime, we cook carnitas, traditional food, tamales, punches, and chocolate. The young people play most of the night and the old people talk. You do not need to give or receive gifts on this day. This day is for family and religion to celebrate in my parent’s home. -Emmanuel Arias My favorite holiday is Christmas . We celebrate Christmas in December 25. The celebration begins on December 16 with "Las posadas ". "Las posadas" are representation of Maria and Jose,when looking for a place to spend the nigth, some people sing carols and break pinatas. In December 24 is the last posada. After this ,the people go home with their families,to eat and exchanging presents. After eating all expect the midnight at twelve o' clock ,every hug and wish the best for all saying "Merry Christmas''. For next day December 25 people meet's with friends and family to eat rehearing. When I was a girl my favorite holiday was Christmas, because, I always broked the pinatas and collect candys and fruit. I liked to see the Christmas tree in the corner of the living room, in my house were seven children and my parents always give us toys. The best part, was to openn my gifs. My mother cooked too much and sometimes we ate the same food for 2 or 3 days. But, when she does punch (ponche), I can drink everydays,wich is a drink made with fruit of the season and a lot people mix with tequila or rum. I enjoy Christmas with my family and friends,because Christmas is time for feel peace and harmony. (Note: Photos are saved on the same drive as this document) -Lilia Fitz My favorite holiday is Thai New Year or Songkran Festival. Thai New Year is celebrated every year on April 13 to April 15. Songkran falls in the hottest time of the year in Thailand at the end of the dry season. Songkran is one of Thailand’s biggest holiday celebrations during which every town participates. The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. People roam the streets with containers of water or water guns and post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench others and passersby. Songkran has traditionally been a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends, and neighbors. People celebrating Songkran may also go to temple to pray and give food to monks. A typical food for the holiday is we are making a lot of food for family and friends, for example Thai food, pad Thai, Tom, yam, rice, noodle, bbq pork, steak, and fruit. I like this holiday because I can spend time with my family. We are plays water outside of road with family and friends. Together we are wet and fun. Welcome to Thailand! The land of smiles. -Sasithorn Punchana (Jee) Our factory operates even on national holidays in general in Japan. So most of all national holidays are not holidays for me. Instead of that, there are 2 or 3 times of consecutive holidays. These are summer holiday and new year holiday, which is Christmas holiday in USA. So my favorite holidays are both of that. In summer holiday, it is a traditional custom that all family go back to their original home and they go to ancestor’s cemetery. Traffic jams in this season is very famous in Japan. Sometimes it could be 10 miles long. The funny thing is that we have traffic jam forecasting like weather! We have BON—dancing festival around August 15th everywhere. We say summer holiday is BON-holiday. This dancing festival has old meaning. It is the meaning that to light up darkness of night by dancing around fire, like camp fire, leads ancestor’s revival without losing their way home. Of course, nowadays, this meaning is getting faded out like St. Valentine’s Day. It remains just for fun! -Masato Takamatsu My favorite and special holiday is New Year in my country on March 21. We are celebrate New Year with all family and friends. People celebrate New Year with parades. The farmers show all their equipment. We have horse races called buzkashi and boys play with boiled eggs. We drink a special juice combined of seven different fruits called meway tar karda. We eat special food called kabuly palou. We wore new clothes and Afghanistan people celebrate New Year a long time ago and people believe God gives all nature new life. -Medina Baha