The last month of 2007 started!!Wow……it's 5th on December today.Too fast!!I'm really surprised about the time passing.Before this class I heard from my professor that there's a kind of pre-Christmas in Netherlands on 5th December, so the children can get presents!!Sounds really nice because there're 2 oppotunities to get PRESENTS!!!!I really envy them. If I can get something I really want, I want Nintendo DS like many children.
(image source)By the way, today's topic is "At the last day of the year……". What do you do in the U.S. or another places??In Japan, we eat "年越しそば（toshikoshisoba）" with my family at night. It's one of the popular Japanese meals, and a kind of noodle dish. The soup of it is based on the soysauce, so it tastes really delicate and light. There are tempura, spinach,green onion and so on as a ingredient.It's really healthy dish!! However, this isn't just normal "soba"."年越しそば" has important meaning of its name. You know soba is thin and long. By eating soba at the last night of the year, we hope that our lives will continue long and healthily like soba. The special soba is more delicious than nomal one!!I want to eat it soon!!
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Hi! I really like getting presents as well but my favorite part is unwrapping them because it is a surprise. ^_^ My mother is from Spain so we do a lot of Spanish traditions during Christmas and New year's. For Christmas we have a big meal on the 24th and my mom will cook seafood and chicken. For dessert we will have turron which is a type of candy dessert made with almonds. We also have a lot of marzipan. For New Year's on the strike of midnight when the bell gongs 12 times we'll have one grape for each gong so 12 all together. If you manage to eat them all by the end of the last gong it is considered good luck! In America it is different though. I am excited for the holidays it is a lot of fun!
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