"Do you believe in Santa Claus? " - I asked the nice girl standing nearby in a queue in office of Nova poshta. It held a pretty color bag, on a place of the return address was written "From Santa Claus". "It is worse, - she smiled. - I play it".
It’s a snowy fairytale outside, the tear-off calendar is completely empty, we live full of New Year's worries and preparing gifts for "under the tree". This year, children presented the Advent calendar.
Of course, the main concerns of housewives are fussy New Year days - it means better to lay the table, what to present to family, how to meet the guests, or what to visit friends with. Yet, this is not the only concerns. The main question is what to wear on New Year's Eve ...
The Ukrainian-Japanese center NTUU “KPI” regularly organizes events which are aimed for the acquaintance of Kiev citizens with the Japanese culture. There was a Japanese New Year holiday Motitsuki in the hall of the National-technical library NTUU “KPI” on the 3d of February 2013.
The arrival of the New Year is the most favorite holiday for children and adults. Indispensable attributes - fairytale characters Father Frost and Snow Maiden.
In the XV century the New Year in Russia has been met on March 1 on the Julian calendar, and later - September 1 (summarizing harvest). Only in 1700, Peter 1st, following the example of Europeans issued a decree about celebrating New Year on January 1st.
During holidays, there are many beautiful fireworks, and each of us can become pyrotechnic. We must remember that careless handling fireworks can pose a threat to life and can lead to accidents.
February is unusual month. Indeed, it is the shortest month of the year. At the same time it has unstable number of days. I remember as a child we sympathized classmate, whose birthday is February 29, and to celebrate it can be only once every four years.
New Year celebrations in our minds are firmly connected with the winter frost and snow.
Year begins in January ... but why in January? From calendar and astronomical point of view, nothing interesting is happening this month - we remember it from school-days. Our Mother-Earth revolves around the Sun at its usual speed.
