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Essay On Holidays

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People all around the world celebrate traditions and holidays in different ways. In the USA and Great Britain they are celebrating many traditions and holidays, some of them we in Sweden also celebrate but some of them which I have never heard of before. In the USA and Great Britain they are celebrating Valentine 's day, it 's on the 14th of February. They celebrate Valentine 's day in memory of Bishop Valentine, a man that tried to protect young lovers. If a Bishop that did those things really existed we don 't know, some people believe it and some people don 't. People send Valentine cards to someone they like. In Great Britain the tradition of sending Valentine cards died out during the first world war but today the tradition has been …show more content…

My favourite holiday is Christmas! In my family we always celebrate Christmas, we have a Christmas tree, we decorate the house, we go Christmas shopping and we make a gingerbread house. We love Christmas! But we don 't really celebrate it for the real reason, from the beginning it was meant to be a holiday to remember the birth of Jesus. Nowaday I think many people have forgotten the real reason, I think that many families are celebrating Christmas because it 's a tradition.

In USA and Great Britain the four weeks before Christmas is called Advent, shops are preparing their Christmas decorating.

Many people are decorating their houses in the middle of December. They have a Christmas tree with small lights and decorations. They also have some small lights in the windows and around the doors. Carol singing is a popular thing in USA and Great Britain, it 's when people gather together and are singing Christmas songs to raise money for charity.

Christmas Eve is the day before Christmas Day, the children believe that Santa Claus will come down the chimney and give them their presents. On the end of the bed or next to the fire the kids are hanging their Christmas stockings. Then when Santa comes he will fill them with Christmas presents. Children in Great Britain leaves mince pie, whisky and a carrot (for his reindeers). People go to the church on Christmas Eve to

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