My Christmas


Hello! My name is Peter and I will tell you about the last Christmas I celebrated – where I spent it, when, who with, how and so on.
In Bulgaria, where I and my family live, Christmas is a public holiday and people do not go to work. The students also do not go to school.
All over the world Christmas is one of the most loved and esteemed holidays. And of course it is very famous. On this day people give presents to their families and friends.
So all over the world people are getting ready for it.
Yesterday mum and went out to buy what we need for the celebration. We bought the presents and a lovely pine-tree. I will decorate it on my one with a variety of toys, biscuits, twinkling lights and colour festoons. I will also put a beautiful Christmas wreath on the entrance door.
December 24. Christmas Eve has come. Except changing presents, people have a special dinner with their families, relatives and friends.
By tradition on Christmas Eve there should be at least seven (they can also be nine or eleven) different dishes – and all of them must be vegetarian.
For example in my house on the table there is a variety of seven different vegetarian dishes – stewed fruit and nuts, pickled cucumbers, popcorn, cabbage (or vine) leaves stuffed with rice and walnuts, pumpkin-pie and baked beans. On the table there is also a Christmas round loaf with a candle in its middle. In the loaf there is also a coin. This year my mother puts a silver-plated coin. I have won it from a raffle.
And on December 31. except a coin, mum puts “luck charms”. These are cornel buds – one bud for success, two buds for happiness and so on.
And so it’s time to turn the baking tin with the round loaf around… Oh! Yeah! Yippee! Ihave got the coin. I am lucky! This is the best Christmas I have eve celebrated.
I hope that the next Christmas celebration will be even better than this one!
I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


Динко Митков Щилиянов
VIII“Б”клас, №9