Новый год. В конце декабря улицы, парки, площади одеваются в праздничный наряд. Через площади и улицы протянулись гирлянды разноцветных фонариков. Все готовятся к встречи Нового года! Это мой любимый праздник. Но больше всего мне нравится встречать Новый год дома. Я сама наряжаю ёлку, вешаю на неё игрушки, гирлянды. У нас много разных игрушек - новых и старых. И с каждой связана своя история. Вот этот фигурный конёк моей маме подарили, когда она впервые научилась кататься на коньках. Фигуристкой она так и не стала, но красивую ёлочную игрушку хранит. А вот этот невзрачный шарик - первая ёлочная игрушка моей бабушки. Если присмотреться, можно увидеть, как внутри мерцают волшебные огоньки. Ёлка вся блестит разноцветными огнями. К нам съезжаются гости. Мама накрывает праздничный стол. И вот часы бьют 12раз - наступает Новый год. Затем мы выходим на улицу, заполненный людьми. Все поздравляют друг друга с праздником. Новый год приносит много радости и веселья. Я каждый раз с нетерпением жду этот праздник!
New year. At the end of December of the street, parks, the areas put on in a festive attire. Through the areas and streets garlands of multi-colored small lamps were stretched. All prepare to a meeting of New year! It is my favourite holiday. But most of all I like to meet New year of the house. I decorate a Christmas tree, I hang up on it toys, garlands. We have many different toys - new and old. And the history is connected with everyone. Here this figured skate to my mother presented when she for the first time learned to skate. The figure skater it didn't become, but a beautiful fir-tree toy stores. And here this ordinary-looking ball - the first fir-tree toy of my grandmother. If to look narrowly, it is possible to see how magic sparks inside flicker. The fir-tree all shines multi-colored fires. To us guests gather. Mother lays a holiday table. And here hours beat 12раз - there comes New year. Then we go outside, filled with people. All congratulate each other on a holiday. New year brings a lot of pleasure and fun. I each time look forward this holiday!
Such original holiday is my favorite! And I want to tell you about it. Halloween is the holiday of vampires, witches, ghosts and other evil spirits. Because of that children wear costumes and masks with their images. This holiday until recently wildly celebrated only in the United States and now it is becoming increasingly popular in Europe and gradually USSR. What do we know about this holiday, from where it originates? For thousand years in October, different people celebrate different holidays and festivals. Halloween-is one of the oldest festivals in the world. It`s history numbers millennium, beginning from the Celtic festival Samhejn, the Roman Day of Pomona (the goddess of plants) and Christian "Day of all sacred". This holiday in strange way combines the Celtic tradition of celebrating of evil ghost and the Christian-worship all sacred. Across all Europe this night marked transition by the winter. They hold that at this time souls of the died visit the former houses to get warm at fire. They wander around, collecting donations of food and drink at other members of a family. Souls of the died could accept different appearances-malicious were installed in animals. Together with them other powers of darkness are also: demons, house, witches. All evil spirit goes down on the earth. Because of fear, people extinguished the centers in houses and dressed up as it is possible more terribly-in animal skins and heads, hoping to scare away evil ghosts. At the end of XIX century a Halloween have tried to transform it into a public holiday, and many superstitious traits of a Halloween were dissolved in the history. Now Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. Many of them carve jack-a-lantens out of plump kinds. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities. People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts and witches but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween.
New year. At the end of December of the street, parks, the areas put on in a festive attire. Through the areas and streets garlands of multi-colored small lamps were stretched. All prepare to a meeting of New year! It is my favourite holiday. But most of all I like to meet New year of the house. I decorate a Christmas tree, I hang up on it toys, garlands. We have many different toys - new and old. And the history is connected with everyone. Here this figured skate to my mother presented when she for the first time learned to skate. The figure skater it didn't become, but a beautiful fir-tree toy stores. And here this ordinary-looking ball - the first fir-tree toy of my grandmother. If to look narrowly, it is possible to see how magic sparks inside flicker. The fir-tree all shines multi-colored fires. To us guests gather. Mother lays a holiday table. And here hours beat 12раз - there comes New year. Then we go outside, filled with people. All congratulate each other on a holiday. New year brings a lot of pleasure and fun. I each time look forward this holiday!