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During the holidays, my family and I celebrate The Russian New Year. In Russia, the New Year holiday trumps even Christmas in importance, and major celebrations take place all over the country in recognition of the holiday, but there is also a second New Year recognized in Russia, the Old New Year, which takes place halfway through January and denotes the new year in the old Orthodox Calendar. Russians welcome the New Year by saying “S Novim Godom!” (С Новым годом!), so if you're planning a vacation to Russia this time of the year, be prepared to say this a lot while you're going between unlimited festivities to celebrate the past year and ring in the new, anytime between December 30 and January 15th. The most extensive New Year celebrations in Russia occur on December 31st to January 1st, like most of the rest of the world, where fireworks and concerts mark off this special holiday, and it is also on this day that the Russian Santa, or Ded Moroz, and his female companion Sengurochka visit children to pass out gifts. What those in the West would call a Christmas Tree is considered a New Year's Tree in Russia, and because the first Russian New Year precedes Christmas in Russia (which takes place on January 7), this tree is left up in honor of both holidays.This New Year is considered the “New” New Year because it was first recognized after Russia made the switch from the Julian calendar (still recognized by the Orthodox Church) to the Gregorian calendar which is followed by the Western World. During the Soviet period, the New Year was celebrated in place of Christmas, though Christmas has been regaining importance as a holiday once again. Russians have a second opportunity to celebrate the New Year, which falls on January 14th according to the old Orthodox calendar. This “Old New Year” (Старый Новый год) is spent with family and is generally quieter than the New Year celebrated on January 1st. Folk traditions, like the singing of carols and the telling of fortunes, may be observed during Russia's Old New Year, and a large meal will be served.

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During the holidays, my family celebrates Christmas and St. Lucia. As a Swedish tradition, we light the four advent candles, one on each Sunday before Christmas. On Christmas Eve, my grandparents host a big dinner for my family and cousins. On Christmas morning we open the presents under our ornament decorated tree. During St. Lucia, we go to watch a train of boys and girls in white gowns singing songs to celebrate St. Lucia, the bearer of light.

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Alina (Christmas, New Year, St. Nicholas Day

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Alina (Christmas, New Year, St. Nicholas Day

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I love Christmas, well not really christmas but Christmas eve. In Germany we get our gifts on Christmas eve

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The holiday i celebrate is Christmas it is a holiday when we have a dinner on Christmas day and Christmas eve. We then get gifts from santa Claus.

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The holiday that I celebrate is Christmas and Chinese New Year. During Christmas, my family decorates a Christmas tree with ornaments and hangs up stockings. We give presents and write Christmas lists and stocking stuffer lists. We usually have relatives over at out house for a Christmas dinner.

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This holiday season my family and I celebrate Christmas. We are very religous and we go to church on Christmas Eve. When we come back we have a feast and we go to bed and wait for santa

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I celebrate a couple of holidays, but i'm going to do my favorite one. Christmas is a fun holiday when you get to spend time with your family. We decorate trees and give gifts. My family usually will open presents and make my mom breakfast since it's her birthday. (NOT DONE!)

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I celebrate Christmas. My family and I go out to our cabin in sundance, utah, and my sister in law, and my brother bring there son up there. I usually ski or play in the snow our side of the cabin. On christmas eve, all of my siblings come over to sleep, and the next day, all of the stockings are full, and the tree is filled with presents under it. (one time my dad was in australia for christmas, and he jetskiied on christmas. LOL)

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The holiday I celebrate is Christmas. I am not religious or anything so what my family does is We get together with family and then we open presents then we have a great Christmas dinner.

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The Holiday I celebrate is Hanukkah. My family is not religious . In Hanukkah we spin dreidle and whoever wins gets chocolate coins and money. We light a manora each night. We eat latcas, and donuts. (Potatoes=latcas)  We also get money and gifts at the last day of hanukkah

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I celebrate Christmas. My family and I are not very religious but we still celebrate Christmas. What we do is we get Christmas

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This holiday I celebrate Christmas and Chinese new year. For Christmas I get present.But for Chinese new year I get a red envelope with money inside. We have a big dinner for Christmas. And we also have one for Chinese new year. we put up a tree with ornaments and hang stocking above the fore place.

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Although I don't celebrate any December holidays, I do celebrate one in late winter or even spring. On Chinese New Year, it is a tradition in my family to rush back to China before 12:00 on Chinese New Year's Eve. A couple days before the actual new year, we get new clothes and completely clean out the house and put on decorations like lanterns. On the actual New Year, we have an enormous feast and then set of firecrackers outside. At about 11:45, you turn on the TV (if you have one) and watch the whole entire China count down. Then you sit down and watch the whole entire 5 hour Chinese New Year TV special

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This holiday I celebrate Christmas. Though I am not religious or celebrate Christmas religiously, I still celebrate it. We get a tree and decorate it with beautiful ornaments and put a star or a bow on top. We hang stockings on the mantel of our fireplace with nutcrackers and fake carolers. We listen and sing along to Christmas carols and send Santa Christmas lists. Family from my dad's side of the family come and have dinner with us on both Christmas night and Christmas Eve. Everyone is happy. On Christmas Eve, just before bed, we read The Night Before Christmas, which has a recording built in of my great grandma and grandpa reading the book. My parents always make me and my sister wait until my mom has her slippers and notepad for opening presents. We always have awesome Christmas's.

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Christmas is the day that i get together with all the family.
We celebrate all together with each other. This year we will go up to Tahoe and ski (if there is enough snow). We don't celebrate Christmas religiously. We think of it as a way to get together and appreciate each other. We get a Christmas tree and decorate it.
But since we are going to Tahoe we will buy a fake tree and have it get delivered.