Here is a video I made last year. It shows the Christmas lights in people’s homes in Sydney:
Do you celebrate Christmas in your country?
Do people decorate their houses or the street?
Let’s share our culture with each other!
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Christmas isn’t an important celebration in Viet Nam because we’d a lot of religions. But two of popular religions are Catholic , Buddhist . Buddhist and non_religion is almost Vietnamese.At Christmas , somewhere we decorated our houses , streets, trees and stores with colorful lights and Christmas trees( they’re unreal because there weren’t any pine in VIet Nam ).Ho Chi Minh city’s so luxurious every Christmas Holiday .People who is Catholic celebrated Christmas . They made a cave and put small statues of Jesus’s family in it.They went to Church and had a big super .You can see the Buche de Noel at every bakery , it looks like a wood but its a roll cake covered by chocolate( so cute and yummy !!!)If it’d had snow , that’d have been perfect Christmas , so I wish I can walk under the snow oneday.
Sounds fun Jane! So what is your favourite celebration in your country?
Yes ,John in Egypt we celebrate , We decorate our houses ,our church ,shops ,hotels ,christian schools and coffee shops but decoration shapes are less than what I had seen in the video .In our houses we decorate tree with colorful lights and different toys,also some houses decorate a cave with small statues of baby Jesus,Virgin Maria ,Youssef and some animals ( to show Jesus birth).This celebration starts on 23rd December to 7th Janeuary and 31th December at 12P.M is the new year`s Celebration
and we all from Egypt say MARRY CHRISTMAS JOHN .
Hi Suzy
Sounds very nice! Is it hot at Christmas time in Egypt? In Australia it is summer time.
HI , Christmas time is in Winter ,so it`s cold in Egypt in this time as in Canada and USA ,Thank`s
Does it snow anywhere in Egypt?
hi, No snow in Egypt because the lowest temperature is 13 degree at night and 16 degree by the day ,we have nice and warm weather in winter ,therfore the tourists visit Egypt in this time .They enjoy their time in swimming ,visiting ancient monements and so on ..,we hope to visit my country Egypt
I see – not too cold. Do you have 4 seasons?
Hi John ,Yes we have 4 seasons ,First the weather was differs than nowadayes ,may be due to the polution in environment ,open on ozone layer or other scientific reason . Winter is less cold and short but few dayes are rainy and cold (special in christmas days ),Spring is nice ,sunny and warm, Summer this year was and still until now very hot so there isn`t Autumn season this year .
Hi Suzy
It is starting to get hot here now. It is still spring but summer is not far away.
And, not many months till Christmas too!
Have a great week!
John