Christmas in Canada

Canadians like to decorate their houses with Christmas Trees, lights and other decorations. There’s often Christmas stockings hung by the fireplace, ready for Santa! The main Christmas meal is often roast turkey with vegetables and ‘all the trimmings’ like mashed potatoes and vegetables. Canada is a very large country and people of many different cultural backgrounds live there. Because of this, there are lots of different Christmas traditions in Canada. Many of the traditions and celebrations come from French, English, Irish, Scottish, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian and native/first nation influence. People in Canada send Christmas Cards to their friends and family. Many Canadians open their gifts on Christmas Eve. Some only open their stocking on Christmas Eve. Others choose one gift to open, then save the rest until Christmas Day.

Canadians like to decorate their houses with Christmas Trees, lights and other decorations. There’s often Christmas stockings hung by the fireplace, ready for Santa! The main Christmas meal is often roast turkey with vegetables and ‘all the trimmings’ like mashed potatoes and vegetables. Traditional favorite Christmas desserts include Christmas/plum puddings and mincemeat tarts. Christmas crackers are popular with many people in Canada as well. A rich fruit Christmas Cake is also normally eaten around Christmas time However, people from different backgrounds and cultures have their own favorite foods at Christmas. From https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/canada.shtml. Compiled by Gracia Kifwame

 

 

 

Halloween in Canada

Most people in Canada are very into the holiday of Halloween. People put a lot of effort into decorating their homes, yards and much more. Some may even create life-size replica graveyards or dungeons and invite people from the neighborhood to view their decorations or have have Halloween parties. Other people may organize fancy dress parties for adults or children.

Many children just like in the United States go out to trick-or-treat. They dress up as  different characters from TV shows and movies and visit homes in their neighborhood to collect candy from anyone who’s participating.

Children also take part in a long-standing Canadian tradition of “Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF”. Pumpkin-carving contests, pumpkin art tours, a reading marathon, and symbolic Walks for Water are just a few examples of the educational and fundraising activities schools and children develop to help provide thousands of children developing countries with basic quality education.

Halloween in Canada is very similar to Halloween in the United Sates. There is hardly anything different about the way we both celebrate Halloween. -Ty’Quirra Mayo

 

Christmas In Sweden

Around Christmas time in Sweden, one of their biggest celebration’s is St. Lucia’s Day which is  celebrated on December 13th. St Lucia was a young girl who was tortured and killed for what she believed in in 304 AD A lot of people have stories about Lucia and one of the stories everybody  tells is she would secretly bring food to the victimized christian’s Rome, who lived in hiding in the catacombs under the city. She would wear candles on her head so she had both of her hands free to carry things.

They now celebrate by dressing in a white dress with a red sash round her waist and a crown of candles on her head. The small children uses electric candles but from 12 years old,real candles are used. A National Lucia is chosen and they go visit hospitals and old people homes  singing a song.

St.Lucia’s Day first became widely celebrated in Sweden in the Late 1700s. It is also celebrated in Denmark,Norway,Finland,Bosnia and Croatia. In Denmark, it is more a of a children’s day and in some parts of Italy,children are told that St Lucy brings them presents.They leave out a sandwich for her and the donkeys that help carry the gifts! -Ketsia Tukeba

Food they eat:

This is the main thing they eat during Christmas it called Lussekatts and they are buns flavored with saffron and dotted with raisins which are eaten for breakfast

 

 

Upcoming Artist (Self Taught)!!!

Hi Garinger, this is Isaac’s original song that he wrote in his journalism class called “Her Eyes.” I will provide the lyrics below but it will be also in the subscription on youtube.

Copy and paste the link if you can’t click on it.
@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uI3dYb1d2I

Lyrics
Verse 1 : Never seen anything like her 👀
Never seen anything like her smile
Yet, they’re the purest eyes👀
That I have ever seen
So hard to resist 🛑 …
So hard like the sky 🌌 over me
Shining bright upon me
Like moon 🌙 and stars ⭐️ ✨
at night………………….
Oh, I try to run away
But it keeps catching up on me
I need to realize……

Pre – Cho : I can’t run,
I can’t hide,
Oh I need you to set me free…

Chorus : Cuz darling,
I’ve been staring at
The sparkle in your eyes👀
But since you…
You don’t seem to notice
The feeling that I get from you
So I’ll try…
Stop running away from you
Maybe tonight…
The stars ⭐️ ✨ ⭐️
Would shine for me and you…

Verse 2 : Cuz you are in my dreams…
And I’ve never felt this way before,
I’m imprisoned
By the thoughts of you
Can’t get you out of my mind …

Bridge : This time……………….
My heart’s ❤️ on the line
But we can lay down here
On the ground……….
Talk………………………
Under the moonlight 🌙
I’ll walk you home🏡
Under the stars ✨ ⭐️ ✨