The best holidays in my life.

Probably day when we with friends all night long walked across night Moscow was the best holiday for me. Walk through the city has always been for me something spectacular and magical. My friends made this night even more remarkable because greet the new day alone is not the most pleasant experience. In the summer Saturday evening we decided to descend in open-air cinema on a night session. The movie was spectacular. We all do like it. But when the movie came to an end, we understood that home we won't be able to leave and we remained in Moscow. We walked on Arbat and sang with musicians who were standing there. Then we decided to go to the centre of modern art Vinzavod. Having taken a walk there, we went on Vorobyovy Gory where spent the remained night. We were lying on the warm waterfront of the Moscow River and talking, looking at the sky, covered with thousands of stars. It seemed to us that in this city, we do not sleep only because the night was so wonderful. Laughing and talking, we did not notice that it was morning. We were so happy but sleepy. We had breakfast in a small cozy cafe and went home.

14. Every nationality has its own way of life, its own habits & tastes.

There are many countries in the world and all of them have their own traditions, customs, every nationality has its own way of life, its own habits and tastes. For example, the same holiday – Christmas – in every country celebrates in different way. A "traditional" Christmas come from the United Kingdom. The holiday is celebrated with Christmas cards, caroling and a holiday feast, with Christmas pudding for dessert. The children place their stockings by the fireplace for Father Christmas to fill with goodies and small presents. Gift-giving is less important in the UK than togetherness and the big holiday dinner. The celebration extends to December 26, or Boxing Day, which marks a traditional day off for servants to enjoy their own Christmas dinner. In Canada/U.S. Christmas trees are decorated and stockings are hung on the fireplace for Santa Claus to fill with gifts. Cards and gifts are exchanged with friends and relatives. Children put on pageants and go caroling. The Christians in China light their homes with beautiful paper lanterns. Santa is called Dun Che Lao Ren. The children hang stockings just as we do. In Denmark Santa is known as Julemanden and he arrives in a sleigh pulled by reindeer with a sack full of gifts. Danish children know the elves as Juul Nisse, and believe that they live in the attics of their homes. Instead of cookies and glasses of milk, they leave rice pudding and saucers of milk out for them. In Russia Christmas is celebrated on the 7th of January and not the 25th of December like in most other countries. We don’t really celebrate it much.(unless someone is super religious, then he goes to church on that day) However we do celebrate New Years: we have Christmas tree, and Santa comes(well actually he is grandpa frost there). For New Year's, Friends are called together in one house where a large table is laid out with food which often takes at least half a day to prepare due to the amount. Then everyone gathers around a table to eat and talk about anything. Card games might be played, music could be listened to, or the TV might be switched on in the background. Everyone chatters until midnight when all channels are switched to the news and when the clock strikes a twelfth time, wine is poured, toasts are made and cheering erupts. Presents are exchanged. Tastes and habits are different too: in U.K. people traditionally have 5 o’clock tea and go to pubs in the evening, in France they have breakfast of coffee and croissant and in the evening have a wine glass during a dinner, Russian tradition garnish is boiled or fried potato and tradition alcohol is vodka. There are so many differences not only between different nationalities, between different people. But all of us get up in the morning and we go to meet day, trying to fulfill the dreams, hopes and enjoy our life.

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