Christmas In
Africa
Christmas morning
starts of with the awakening voices of all those well known carols around
the world. Many villagers will walk to and fro, up and down the villages
of Africa. Then they need to get the final preparations ready for the
town service. The service is the most important thing about Christmas for
these people, as the service is meant to be the offering of love. This is
to honour the welcoming of JESUS. They will bring
gifts and food which will be taken to those in Africa who don’t have a
home or food for Christmas.
Christmas
In Canada. Really
Christmas in Canada is like Christmas in America. In some counties they
have a big winters festival called SINCK TUCK. It is celebrated with
Eskimo’s, dancing and a gift giving party. In Labrador, they save the
harvested turnips from the summer and give them to the children, with a
candle pushed into a hollowed out hole. Again performers and carollers go
round to the villages singing and ringing bells. Christmas
In England. The British tradition is to sing all those Christmas songs and to decorate their houses with bright lights and evergreen branches. Many British people celebrate Christmas with a big marvellous stuffed turkey and all those popular vegetables, which have been saved from the Autumn Harvest. They offer each other gifts, and their best wishes for Christmas, and then there is those who would rather go to church and celebrate the birth of JESUS.
Preparations
for Christmas in Germany start on the evening of December 5th.
They will aside parties and bake spiced cakes and cookies. Children leave
letters on the windowsill for CHRISTKIND , a winged figure who dresses in
white robes and has a golden crown. On Christmas Eve a room is locked. The
children will go to bed but will be woken at midnight to go to the locked
room. When it is opened it is full of decorations and presents.
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