Christmas around the world Christmas is one of the most important festivities in the world: everyone loves to celebreate it, but no one has the same traditions. Here’s how we live the Christmas time in our countries. CHRISTMAS IN GERMANY is a very important holiday: that’s why we start thinking about it in late November. In fact, at the end of November, we buy the advent wreaths, or we make one by ourselves. Usually, we light a candle every Sunday in December and we also buy Christmas calendars. The Christmas markets are also open: they are always a highlight for everyone. Sadly, they are not allowed to be open during the Corona time. In the night from the 5th- 6th December, we have a little celebration, called Nikolaus. Every Family is putting their cleaned shoes outside and, during the night, Nikolaus comes and puts some sweets and presents in the shoes. We believe he is from Turkey.
At the beginning of December, we start baking some Christmas cookies and building gingerbread houses. Few days before Christmas everyone buys a Christmas tree and decores it. Lia’s Christmas in 2008
In addition to these traditions, everyone listens to Christmas music. On the Christmas eve, we go to church in the afternoon. There everybody sings, drinks red wine (or grape juice for the children) and watches a performance about the
Christmas scene, which also includes some Christmas songs. After that, we get a peace candle from the scout team and walk home with it. After church, we eat sausages and potato salad, which is a traditional meal for Christmas (it tastes really good!!). In the evening, the children get their presents. In some families, comes a person clothed like Santa Claus, or (for an example at my family) Santa Claus brings the presents, while we are at the church. Our Santa Claus comes from the North pole. On the 25th of December, people eat a festive meal: everyone helps to prepare everything. We usually eat with our relatives, especially with our grandparents that can give us some more presents. On the 26th (the second celebration day) we eat rest of the festive meal and spend a lovely day with our family.
Gifts from Nikolaus
