OUR ADVENT CALENDAR 1st December- CHRISTMAS, in Australia and Finland Follow our Advent Calendar! Click on English and then Festivals!! Christmas in Australia At Christmas we sing Christmas Carols. We put up a Christmas tree. On Christmas Eve children put their Christmas bags out and wait for Santa to come. Some kids try to stay up and wait for him. At some shops people dress up as Santa and ask kids what they want for Christmas. After they do that they usually give them lollies. We eat a Christmas turkey, baked potato and baked vegetables. Christmas is a time we give and receive gifts from each other. We celebrate it in different ways. At home with relatives or with friends. We eat so much food and it is a tradition to have rumballs, white Christmas and trifulls. The weather at Christmas in Australia is warm in most places. Some people go the beach for Christmas day and some people have Barbeques in their back yards. Lots of houses are now having competitions to light up their houses and they put lights in their gardens and on the front of their houses, it gets very competitive (there is a lot of prize money involved). Goonellabah School Christmas is a jolly time of year. Every Christmas, Santa Claus comes to your house and go down your chimney. Then he leaves presents under the Christmas tree. He goes back up the chimney, then he gets on his sleigh and goes to the next house. Next morning you go downstairs and open your presents. Then you go out and play in the snow (if there is any). We don't have much snow here, but we hope you get a lot. For us, Christmas is a long vacation, and we have family gatherings. Christmas is a good time of year. by Vincent DeTommaso, Austin Sim, and Charles Meehan Harford Day School Christmas is a jolly time of a year also here in Finland. Our Santa Claus comes in the evening and gives presents. Then he leaves for the next house. In Christmas we have lots of snow. Many people eat ham in Christmas Everybody loves Christmas (presents)! Katja.I. & Eerika Kissanmaa School Christmas is snow time. There's lots of snow at Christmas. Every Christmas Santa Claus comes to your house and gives presents for everyone. In winter we make snowmen, snow angels, snow castles, snowballs... everything. Christmas is a cold time here in Finland. At Christmas we eat ham, potato casserole, swede casserole, carrot casserole, vegetable salad with herring, gingerbread biscuits, mulled wine, rice porridge, liver casserole, home-brewed ale, finnish mince pies... Christmas is a good time of year! Margit Saarto, Anne Aholaita, Laura Pietarinen 6A

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