How do people celebrate
New Year around the world?
...in Switzerland?
On the last day of December,
everybody is very busy. All the food shops and liquor shops are crowded.
People are unfriendly and impatient because shopping takes a long time
on this day.
Finally, people get home
late at seven o'clock, tired from working and shopping, hardly enough energy
to start cooking the big meal. Until 11 o'clock, nobody is very excited,
but deep inside we all feel that soon there will soon be coming a moment
to think about our past and our future. When finally the clock turns to
12 o'clock, we raise our glasses and make a toast for all the good things
that happened in the last year.
We kiss everybody not only
3 times, but many times, and hug everybody several times. (Sylvia Bopp)
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