January 30, 2012

Nick's New Year experience

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My Japanese New Years was very different compared to a Danish New Year’s Eve, since in Japan New Year’s Eve is considered as the main event of the holiday.



This holiday I was together with my host family and two of their friends, when the friends arrived at our house we started the preparation of our dinner, Sukiyaki and homemade Onigiri. After dinner we talked and played Wii. Just before midnight we went to some friends living nearby so we could “jump” into the New Year together. Afterwe all said “Happy New Year” and drank all of our champagne we went to the local shrine、to pray for a good year. However my uncle must be careful because the shrine’s fortune telling told him that he is going to have a bad year again!


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The Japanese New Year is very different to the Danish because in Denmark usually young people celebrate New Year’s together with their friends at a party instead of sitting together with their family, but the reason of this is that in Denmark Christmas is the day where you are together with your family and New Years you are together with friends, and this is other way around in Japan where Christmas eve is considered as a Date night and New Years is the day you spent together with your family.

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Seiritsu Gakuen is a private co-educational high school created in 1925 and it is located in Tokyo, Japan.

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