Christmas Around the World

Candy Magazine
December 2006
Summit Media
Candy Rap, p.26

Christmas Around the World
This season, greet your friends in 10 different ways!

1. Arabic: Milad Majid
2. Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
3. French: Joyeux Noel
4. Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
5. Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
6. Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka7. Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova8. Hindi: Shub Naya Baras
9. Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie10. Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto


Ever wonder how Christmas is celebrated on the other side of the world?
· Mexican and French children don’t put out their socks for Santa to leave presents in, but their shoes.
· Before Santa’s visit, people in Finland have a neat tradition of having a sauna bath first!
· Lebanese go green a month before the holiday season by planting seeds of grain that they can place beside the nativity come Christmas day.
· New Zealand seems to have a summer holiday by hitting the beach on the 25th. Plus, Santa gets a beer instead of steaming hot chocolate!
· True to their national animal, Australian Santa Clause has a sleigh pulled by eight white kangaroos!