The holidays around the world

A Q&A with some of our transfer students

Around the world there are different types of Christmas traditions. WSS interviewed our foreign exchange students to learn about their Christmas traditions in their home countries. 

 

 

 

Yuta Moroi (11) is from Japan. He reported that Christmas back home for him is the “ same as here.” He likes Christmas, and his favorite holiday foods are “Christmas cake, chicken, and vegetables,” Moroi said.  

Nicoline Veien (11) is from the Netherlands, where Christmas seems a little simpler. “We only celebrate the 24th and 25th, and we have a home meal,” she said. “We dance around the Christmas tree and sing Christian songs,” Veien added. “My favorite part is getting together with my family,” Veien said. When asked about traditional and festive foods, she said her family likes to eat “meat. We have potatoes, two different kinds. We don’t have a cake, but we have like a rice pudding.”  What does she think of Christmas here? “It’s a lot different,” Veien added.

Matheus Trighelli Adame Rodrigues (11) is from Italy. “We get our family like cousins and uncles and aunts, they come from far places and go to like my house or my aunt’s house. On the 24th we stay up until 5am. Then on the 25th we have a big feast. We do like a lot of Secret Santa and we cook on the 25th, we go to the tree and open our gifts with just my family.” Speaking of food, “We eat turkey, and I like the thing my dad does he does, like beans on the blender with a lot of sauce, and with a pasta. My mom puts like milk onto everything. She mixes it with cider and canned milk, and she puts that over chocolate and then she puts strawberry and grain.”