Holidays and Celebrations

Holidays and celebrations
Every family has red letter days, whic are birthdays, namedays, wedding anniversaries. We celebrate
the birthday and nameday each member of our family. Lot of countries doesn’t celebrate namedays,
like France, Finnland and English-speaking countries, because it is out of fashion. But in Hungary
namedays are almost as important as birthdays and are celebrated in all families.
When we celebrate something, we constatntly go to our favorite restaurant, or if we celebrate at

home my mother and my grandmother cooks and bakes goodies every time. We celebrated my
birthday the last time. We didn’t go to a restaurant, because I was sick a little, so we just had a
delicious lunch, and I had a party later whit my friends.
Each school has own celebrations, like our. Every year at first we have opening ceremony, where the
head teacher opens the school year. After that, in October we have the freshmans ball, where every
freshman take part, this is kind of a funny show. Next is prom in November, this time is very
important for every student in the 12th grade, especially for the girls. The pupils dance together in
beautiful dresses, and they get a ribbon. We also celebrate Bolyai’s day, at this time we celebrate the
founder of our school. During the year we also have basketball-, volleyball- and football-nights,
where the pupils can play sports until the evening. At the end of the year we have the farwell
ceremony, which is also very meaningul for every 12th grade pupil. they say goodbye of the school
and of the teacher. This is officially the end of their school years.
At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Every family has their own habits if we’re talking
about Christmas. At December 24, each family comes together for the Christmas-dinner. There are
many traditional food, like fish soup, stuffed cabbage and poppy-seed roll. The Christmas tree is
decorated before dinner with beautiful ornaments, and the Christmas presents are placed under it.
We open the presents after dinner, and at midnight we go to the church for the midnight service. On
Christmas day and Boxing day relaives visit each other and have lunch together.
English people celebrate Christmas in a different way. When they go to bed, the children hang up old
stocking at the head of their bed for Father Winter to put presents in. The houses are also decorated
with evergreen plants like holly, ivy and mistletoe. Unlike many Eurpean countries, it’s Christmas
Day, not Christmas Eve, that is the most important day of the Christmas holidays. This is the day
when families comes together, presents are opened and dinner is eaten. Christmas dinner is usually
consists of of roast turkey and roast potato and vegetables with plum pudding. On 26 December,
Boxing Day, people gives gifts for regular callers, such as dustman and postmen. There are also
Boxing day „hunt”, and this is the first day of the winter sales.
The next holiday is New Year’s Eve. In Hungary on New Year’s Eve people go to parties where they
eat traditional food like lentils and drink champagne and enjoy themself. At midnight they drink
champagne and sing the national anthem. Then people go to streets and watch the fireworks.
At Easter we celebrate the Resurrection, that is, the rising of Jesus Christ from the tomb three days
after his crucifixion. On Easter Sunday morning we eat ham, hard-boiled eggs and cold pork in aspic.
On Easter Monday boys visit their relatives and friends and sprinkle women and grils with perfume or
water. For that they get chocolate bunnies or painted eggs.
The Hungarians celebrate March 15, the day of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
of 1848-49. The next is August 20, the day of Foundation of the State. We also celebrate October 23,
the day of Declaration of the Hungarian Republic.
There are many not too important holiday, like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Halloween. St.
Valentine’s Day, February 14, is the day of lovers. At this time people send cards, chocolates and
flowers to their love

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