HALLOWEEN PARTY

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31st. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating wearing costumes, carving jack-o´-lanterns, apple bobbing, telling scary stories and watching horror films.

Homes are often decorated with symbols around Halloween like ghosts, witches, skeletons, bats and black cats.

The colours black and orange are associated with Halloween perhaps because of the darkness of night and the colour of fire or pumkins.

Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches and devils...to scare off demons.

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children. They go in costume from house to house asking for treats such as candies or sometimes money, with the question "Trick or treat?"

ANIMALS IN AUSTRALIA

In Australia there are a lot of animals, but the most common ones are koala, kangaroo and the tasmanian devil. Koalas live on trees and they are very quiet, they don´t run. They can climb up trees, walls, pilards, they are very agile. They eat leaves and they sleep twenty hours a day.

The kangaroo is a very strong animal, he uses the tail ti sit down; and they have a bag for babies, like koalas. The babies are there until they are ready to survive out. They eat grass and plants. They spend six hours a day eating. They can´t walk well because their feet are too big; but they are really good at jumping.

The tasmanian devil looks like a teddy bear but it is really like a "devil". They smell very bad and they shout a lot. They only eat meat and and their teeth are very hard. They swim very well.

CHRISTMAS IN FINLAND

Christmas time is very different depending on the country. Each country has got its own traditions. In Finland people put a tree in their houses, but they don´t put balls on it, they put many different flags as symbol of Peace.

At Christmas Eve people go to the sauna. It is a tradition and later they go to the cemeteries to light a candle. They have dinner together and children wait for Joulupukki, that is Santa´s name in Finland. Children wear gnomos that night and they sing. Santa comes and tells them a story about their trip and give them presents. While havig dinner they ask for peace, love and good luck for everybody.

At Christmas day the whole family gives a walk in sled. They enjoy it a lot, they love Christmas time!!!

SEASONS IN SWITZERLAND

There are many children all around the world, you can find children in Russia, England, France, China, Japan, Spain... and each of them does a different activity depending on the season.

She is nicole, she lives in Switzerland and she does a lot of things in the different seasons.

In spring she likes drinking fresh milk and look for different kind of flowers; there are many flowers in Switzerland in spring time.

In summer she likes eating ice-creams with her friends and she likes going for a walk and fly her kite.

In autumn there are many pumkins and they cook soup. She loves the pumpkins soup!!!

And as many other children in the world she comes back to school in autumn.

In winter there is a lot of snow in Switzerland and many times she can´t go outdoors, so she spends many hours at home, reading books and eating chocolate. Chocolate in Switzerland is realy good.

She likes skiing and she does it very well. And... What do you do??

SCOTTISH NATIONAL DRESS.

In Scotland it is quite cold in autumn and winter so people wear scarves, coats, boots, hats, gloves and jumpers.

But traditionally clothes were much more different. They wear traditional clothes in many events, such as weddings, festivals, etc. Traditional clothes for men are a kilt, a white shirt and a waistcoat. They also wear stocking shoes, a bonnet and a sporran.

It is very important, don´t call the kilt skirt, bacuse it isn´t.

On the ather hand, women do not wear kilts, they wear dresses or skirts and a blouse, a bonnet and a waistcoat.

For Scottish people their traditional clothes are very important because they love their culture and traditions, taking care of them seriously.

We should do the same.

I AM FROM CHINA. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

There are many countries in the world, each country has got its own culture, traditions, music, art, etc.

I am from China; and in China people speak Chinese; we have got six different varieties almost inintelligible because we use a different alphabet. Our language is really different from Spanish, French, English... We love travelling and that´s why many people study other languages in China.

Houses in China are also quite different, they are really beautiful. Although in many towns and cities people live in flats like in America or Europe, we can still find many traditional houses.

China is one of the main countries producing rice in the world, they love rice.

and when you talk about my country everybody knows the Big Wall, that is a symbol in China.

We also like practicing many sports, specially karate.

If you want to know more things about us, come to visit China!!!