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One of my favorite quote for 2018 is this one because i can relate to it in many ways cause i always try to control certain things and it doesn't go as plan.

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A song that kinda relates to last year me is WHY by NF. Because in a verse he say that he push the people he love the most away and i had done that last years. And also how some people tell him to smile more that has happen to me to

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In this video you will see how they celebrate New Years around the world. It is pretty cool to see how they celebrate because some are very different from the United States

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New Year's 2019: Firework celebrations around the world

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In Greece they smash  pomegranates on the floor and it creates a flood of seeds on the floor.
It symbolize life and abundance.

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In Mexico they make tamales to eat on New years eve and New years day. But most people buy some if for restaurants or from people selling in the corners during day and during the night.

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In Japan they release balloons when they take part in the countdown. This event is in Tokyo, Japan

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One of the new years tradition in Spain is that they eat grapes. They have to get 12 grapes ready so that when the clocks chimes they put a grape in they have to finish all 12 grapes before the clock stops chimes.

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An Insider's Spain Travel Blog & Spain Food Blog!

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Midnight kisses and black eyed peas won't do you any good on New Years in Spain. Here luck, love and prosperity come with a whole new host of superstitions and traditions. Starting with the Christmas lottery on December 22 and going through that first step out into the street on New Year's Day, the holiday season in Spain is ripe with opportunities to call in good fortune.

Like so many things in Spanish culture, most of the New Year's Eve traditions in Spain that are said to bring good luck involve food. From cava and cookies to lentils and grapes, in Spain you can eat your way to a great new year. Here's how.

12 Lucky Grapes

As the clock ticks down to midnight on New Year's Eve, revelers across Spain pack into their city's main plazas or into their family's living room to watch the clock chime midnight. As the hour draws near, every man, woman, child, grandma and grandpa will be clinging to twelve green grapes.

Each of these twelve grapes are said to represent each month of the year. With every chime of the clock at midnight, Spaniards eat one grape to bring one month of luck in the new year. It is a race to swallow all 12 before the clock stops chiming.

While it may sound simple, the commotion of living rooms and plazas full of people frantically stuffing grapes in their mouth coupled with the three or four seeds in each one makes for a rather chaotic (and hilarious!) start to the new year!

Lottery Luck

The Christmas lottery in Spain comes a few days before the new year on December 22. This El Gordo lottery, the biggest in the world, is replete with superstition and lucky myths. Some people claim that rubbing your lottery ticket against a pregnant woman's belly, a bald man's head or a cat's back will make it a winner.

In the northwestern region of Galicia, lottery players hang their tickets on horseshoes. In other regions people tuck their ticket next to a figure of the Virgin Mary. Some Spaniards believe that the key to good luck comes in the form of an actual key. They carry an old iron key in their pocket with the lottery ticket throughout the day that the winners are drawn.

Lentil Soup for Lunch

In my family, we always have a big bowl of black eyed peas and ham for lunch on New Years to bring luck in the new year. Here in Spain, I've swapped those black eyed peas and ham for lentils and chorizo sausage.

Spanish tradition says that each of the tiny round lentils represents a coin. Eating the soup of "coins" for lunch on New Year's Day is believed to bring you wealth in the coming year! Not to mention this hearty soup is a great way to warm up on this chilly January day.

Cupid's Red Underthings

If your New Years resolution is to fall in love this year, then make sure you ring in the new year wearing red underwear! In some parts of Spain, this cupid-calling good luck charm only works if the underwear were gift. In others, you have to give your festive underpants away by the end of the night for the love potion to work.

Gold and a Glass of Cava

To bring not just good fortune, but an actual fortune in the new year, Spaniards drop a gold object into their glass of Cava before the midnight toast. From golden wedding rings to gold coins, it all goes in the glass! In order for the good luck charm to work, you have to drink the entire glass of cava after the midnight toast and retrieve your golden object.

Some say you can bring different types of luck depending on what you put in your glass. Looking for love? Drop in a strawberry, cherry or raspberry. Want to assure fidelity? Be sure that gold object is your wedding ring!

Starting the Year on the Right Foot

The first step of the New Year better be the right one! In Spain many people believe that to kick the new year off on the right foot, you have to use your right foot. Some say that the first step you take after the bells chime in the New Year should be with the right foot.

Other say that when you walk into your house after a night out on New Year's Eve you should enter with the right foot. Others still claim that the pivotal moment is when you leave the house on New Year's Day. Perhaps we should all just hop around on our right foot all night, just in case!

Cookies and a Coin

If all of the above luck-bringing tricks and traditions leave you lacking in luck, there is one more opportunity to bring good fortune on January 17, the day of San Antón. San Antón is the patron saint of animals and is said to cure animals of disease on this day.

Bakers celebrate this Saint's day by making panecillos, small round cookies marked with a cross. It is said that if you save one of these cookies with a coin throughout the year, it will make you financially fortunate!
How will you ring in a lucky and prosperous New Year this year?
No matter which good luck ritual you're following this New Years, we at Spanish Sabores wish you a Prospero Año Nuevo!

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7 Lucky New Year's Eve Traditions in Spain - An Insider's Spain Travel Blog & Spain Food Blog!

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Midnight kisses and black eyed peas won't do you any good on New Years in Spain. Here luck, love and prosperity come with a whole new host of superstitions and traditions. Starting with the Christmas lottery on December 22 and going through that first step out into the street on New Year's Day, the holiday season in Spain is ripe with opportunities to call in good fortune.

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In Sydney Harbour Bridge and the  Sydney Opera House fireworks explode during midnight. on New Year’s Eve on January 1, 2018 in Sydney, Australia.

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New Year is considered as a time of optimism by one and all, and Australia is no different. The whole of Australia engage itself in enthusiastic celebrations of New Year, with customs and traditions holding the core of it.

They follow the rule of Georgian calendar, and thus consider January 1 as the date and celebration of New Year. New Year celebrations are traditionally made over an extended period of six days, with January 6 being the last day of celebration.

New Year Celebration in Australia

No matter, whether one chooses to stay at home or come out, the mood of zest and celebrations of New Year remain on a constant high among people of Australia. Usually, with New Year being a public holiday, people along with their friends and families come out of their houses to be a part of the group celebrations as made at beautiful beaches, discotheques, pubs, clubs, hotels, and social parties organized for the purpose.

Celebrations with high degree of fervor all over the place continue for the first six days of New Year. The highly fervent New Year celebrations in Australia are world popular, which is the reason why Australia emerges to be the favorite tourist spot among visitors in and around the time of New Year.

Traditionally, people prefer to make a visit to the Church to offer their prayers to the supreme Lord. People along with their families make an early morning visit to the local or main Church to pray Lord in order to get confer with His blessings for the New Year. For the fact, the traditional customs of formally announcing the arrival of New Year is officially considered to take place with the twelve rings of the bell in the Church on the midnight of the New Year.

As soon as people hear the twelve rings, they mutually show their bliss by cheering and making noises through drums, trumpets, horns, and other musical instruments. It is followed by sharing of hugs, kisses, and wishes with all those who are present. Also, beautifully crafted show of fireworks, which take place at exactly the 00:00 hours of January 1, is something which people enthusiastically and eagerly wait for.

Major New Year Celebration Hubs in Australia

Though, the entire Australia celebrates New Year with customs and traditions with unparalleled degrees of happiness and joy, the New Year celebrations and parties as made out in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Darwin are highly popular, more prominently for their grand celebrations and peculiar show of fireworks.

New Year in Sydney, Australia: Sydney hosts one of the most enthralling of New Year celebrations of the whole world. With the arrival of New Year, the famous Sydney Harbor Bridge is lit up with more than 80000 fireworks, creating an extraordinary and unforgettable experience for the spectators. The degree of firework is intense and extravagant to an extent that it can be viewed anywhere within the radius of 16 km. around Sydney.

The fireworks are perfectly string along with the soothing music, presented by a group of vocalists of Sydney Council. Another major attraction is the Sydney New Year beach party, along with other New Year parties thrown on the eve of New Year, in which people pleasantly engage in with activities such as bonfires and camping. A ride through a cruise is necessary to complete the New Year celebration experience in Sydney.

New Year in Melbourne, Australia : The Melbourne city of Australia is another major hub for celebrating New Year with an experience that remains etched in mind till the end of life. Melbourne is highly popular for the parties it throws on New Year's Eve. Discotheques, pubs, hotels, and restaurants saw masses of people coming and becoming part of high energy parties, where arrangements are made for special buffets and exceptional dinners.

The famous rock bands performing across the Melbourne city add a complete new oomph to the New Year vigor. Another major attraction which one can't afford to miss is the depiction of the Chinese-Australian rituals, as a part of which traditional practices of 'sacrificing to ancestors', are performed with dedication and enthusiasm in the China place in Melbourne.

More New Year Traditions

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New Year in Australia - Traditions and Customs

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New Year is considered as a time of optimism by one and all, and Australia is no different. The whole of Australia engage itself in enthusiastic celebrations of New Year, with customs and traditions holding the core of it. They follow the rule of Georgian calendar, and thus consider January 1 as the date and celebration of New Year.

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Some History about the Times Square Ball 

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Some History about the Times Square Ball 

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Before the ball dropping the ball will always drop at one o'clock every afternoon. until they use it for New years day. They had about 7 different balls in total.

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The ball has a total of 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles

It can display about 16 million vibrant colors

The ball has about 32,256 LEDs

It has 12 red, 12 blue, 12 green, and 12 whites. It has about 8,064 of each color

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People usually go with loved one to celebrate a new year together. And a lot of people stay up until 12 a.m. to watch the Times Square Ball drop.

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US History:New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Holiday

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US History:New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Holiday