Christmas Around the World!

Christmas in Australia

by Maya, Célia, Juliette and Alice

Why did we choose this country?

We chose this country because we wanted to know more about Australian traditions and because we heard that it was in summer.  

Traditons:

In Australia, neighbors like to have little competitions to see who has the best decorations.

They also like sing carols on christmas eve.

They often set off christmas crackers at meal time.

They have kangaroos instead of riendeers for father christmas's sleigh.

Father christmas wears short and T-shirts because they celebrate christmas in summmer.

Food:

On christmas eve sea food is served with barbecue at the beach and also with traditional English food.

 

For desert they eat mangoes and cherries. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Christmas in Mexico 

(by Axel and Noa)

 The Mexican Flag

The typical Christmas Dinner in Mexico : 

Starter : POZOLE

Main Dish : LAMALES

(Chicken Papillottes with Guacamole)

DESSERT : A typical flan

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          Christmas traditions in…Canada

                By Hanaa and Charlotte

 

In Canada, traditions come from French,Irish,English,Scottish,German and Norwegian origins.Some people send some christmas card where they write  some nice words like : « Merry chrismas,Happy new year  !"

The example of a card : 

Canadians usually open their gift before Chrismas so on Christmas eve.And they LOVE lights and other chrismas things because they exaggerate for house's decorations and more for them it's very normal !!!There are some examples :

       

But before houses there is another thing you must have : CHRISTMAS TREES !!!!For Christmas they buy a big BIG christmas tree.They choose between pine and fir.Canadian people decorate them with chrismas ball,garland,etc...They put it inside or sometimes outside their houses!

FOOD ( By Sukie and Virginie)

                      

  

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How you celebrate Christmas in Mexico

           (By Sonya and Elsa)

We chose this country because we thought it looked interesting and Elsa's aunt lived in Mexico for a few years !

Traditions in Mexico

A popular tradition in Mexico is to have a Pinata ; A sort of paper maché ball with spikes coming out and if you hit it hard enough sweets will come pouring out and all the children collect them and eat them up

Yummy !!!!!!!!!!

In mexico they don't really have Santa Claus ;

Instead the children parade around the street with virgin Mary (or virgin Maria) and Joseph (Saint José) leading it ; Angels, Three Kings (Santos Reyes) shepardes and shepardesses following on !

They celebrate Christmas on the 16th of December !

The food in Mexico

Some foods that Mexicans eat are :

-Roasted Chicken

-Potato salad

-Pineapple upside-down cake

-Honey Glazed Ham

-Pozole Mexican soup

-Champurrado Mexican Hot-Chocolate

-Salt cod with salad made from beets nuts and a variety of fruits

Feliz Navidad (Or Merry Christmas!!!!!!!)


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Christmas in Sweden

 (by Neige, Eugénie, Emeline and Alexia) 

1) Why did we choose this country ?

We chose this country because we didn't know a lot about this country

and the traditions are more unique than the other countries in the world.

2) The Christmas traditions :

Another popular and important thing that many swedes  do on Christmas eve afternoon is to watch Donald Duck!!!

Every year since 1959, at 3,00 pm on Christmas eve ,the  TV station TV1 shows the Disney special  “From all of Us to All of You”

or in Swedish it's “ Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul”meaning “Donald Duck”and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas” about 40 to 50% of the Swedish population stop to watch it!!

Families sometimes have goats made of straw in the house to guard the Christmas Tree ! Straw is used as a decoration in homes , to remind them that Jesus was born in a manger. Christmas Tree decorations that are made of straw are also very popular. In Sweden the Christmas is full of exotic spices and delicious flavors not normally associated with Sweden . Maybe the cold , dark , endless winter means doing something spunky for food and decorations .

3) The christmas food:

In sweden the night of christmas we drink glögg (muled wine)

we eat a lot of pepparkaka (gingerbread),

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