"HOLIDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
In every country there are a lot of holidays and festivals. The most important of them are Christmas and Easter.

Christmas in English speaking countries
Christmas is a family holiday. The relatives send Christmas cards to each other and wish Merry Christmas and good luck in the New Year. Before Christmas department stores are decorated. Streets, shops and important buildings are decorated too. There are often carol singers of the streets. There are many Christmas habits in England. The people buy mistletoe (jmelí). They hang it on the wall and if a girl or women stands under it, she can be kissed without having objections to it.

Christmas Eve is on the 24th of December (it is a day when Jesus Christ was born). Children go to bed very early and except somebody to come during the night and fill the stocking with his present. In the Britain gives the presents Father Christmas (live in Lapland), in the USA Santa Claus (live in North Pole). Most families open their presents on 25th of December at breakfast time. Christmas day is on the 25th of December. At noon they have the traditional Christmas dinner which means a roast turkey with stuffing, roast potatoes, vegetable, sauces and Christmas pudding for dessert. They prepare this pudding a few days before Christmas because it isn’t easy to prepare it. People sing carol during Christmas time. December 26 is called Boxing Day. On this day servants and tradesmen receive gifts from their superiors or employers.
Christmas in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic is Christmas also the most popular family holiday. People buy Christmas trees and hang various decorations and Christmas sweet on. In our family we dress a Christmas tree one or two days before. We always have a live tree, because my mum would never let us by a plastic one. We usually put glass baubles, silver chains (tinsel) and colour lights on it. We also decorate our house with Christmas decorations and tree branches. We have a supper for the lunch, but that is all, what we almost all day have. In the afternoon we go to visit my grandma, because she lives alone, and after that we usually watch TV or just do nothing while my mother is preparing dinner. Then we have the traditional Christmas dinner on the Christmas Eve. We usually have fish soup and mains meal is fried carp and potato salad. After the dinner we can finally go to the living room and unpack the presents under the Christmas tree. Than we watch a cartoons in TV and eat sweets. Next day we go to see our second grandma and there is usually whole our family and we celebrate together."

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