1. How my family and I see
The New Year in: I like the New Year's Day, it is my favourite
holiday. The 1st of January is a winter holiday and it is the first day of the
New Year. The 1st of January is in the middle of winter. The weather is usually
fine and there is a lot of snow everywhere. As the 1st of January is a holiday
I don't go to school and my parents don't go to work.
We usually have
a very interesting New Year's party at school. We have it on the 28th or 29th
of December.
Our family
prepares for the New Year's holiday beforehand. My father buys and brings home
a beautiful New Year's tree at the end of December. Our family has a tradition
to buy it. We don't like artificial synthetic trees. I like to decorate the New
Year's tree with toys, little coloured lights, sweets and a beautiful star on
the top.
My mother and
grandmother prepare our holiday supper and make a nice cake. I help them
to lay the table.
All the members
of our family clean the flat before the holiday and then each of us try to
get dressed well. We like to see the New Year in at home with our
relatives. They come to see us by 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening.
At 12 o'clock we
sit at the festive table and we are glad to see the New Year in. There are a
lot of delicious things on the table and we begin to celebrate the
holiday. We say, to each other, "Best wishes for the New Year!"
We begin to eat, to joke, to sing songs, to dance to music, to listen to the
president's festive speech on TV. Then we watch the holiday salute and
sometimes we go to the central square where there are a lot of people
welcoming the New Year in!
I hope that
the next year will be better than the last one.
The New Year's
Day is always connected with our new hopes and dreams.
It is a pleasant
moment to get presents on the New Year's Eve.
I usually get
many nice useful things from my parents and relatives.
My parents put
their presents under the New Year's tree.
We don't go to
bed till morning, we continue to watch TV, dance, eat tasty things and
make jokes.
I enjoy this
holiday very much.