Celebrations

Valentine’s Day in Spanish-Speaking Countries: For Love and Friendship

Chocolate, flowers, dinner, dancing, and most of all love. Everywhere you look on Valentine’s Day you can see love-birds holding hands and trading sweet poems and gifts, and friends exchanging Valentine’s cards, balloons and hugs. Valentine’s Day can be celebrated by all and in many different ways, depending on where you are in the world.

In most of South America, Valentine’s Day is known as “Love and Friendship Day”. This special day is not just for lovers! Many groups of friends exchange Valentine’s cards and gifts and later go out for dinner, all in the name of friendship.

In Spain, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in much the same way as in the U.S. and the U.K. But many people also celebrate “El día del libro y la rosa” on April 23 in which men give their special lady a rose and she gives him a book in return.

Colombia celebrates Valentine’s Day on September 20, where it is very popular to send gifts from secret admirers.

Bolivia also favors September for its day of love, celebrating the love and friendship on September 21 in conjunction with Students’ Day, Day of Spring, and Children’s Day. It is common to give cards, flowers, chocolates, and teddy bears to friends, family, and loves.

No matter where you are, Valentine’s Day is a day for love and friendship and a great time to show those you love how you feel.

 

Difference between love and friendship valentines

Valentine's Day 14 February

What is Valentine's Day? St Valentine's Day is an annual festival to celebrate romantic love, friendship and admiration. Every year on 14 February people celebrate this day by sending messages of love and affection to partners, family and friends. Couples send Valentine's Day cards and flowers and spend special time together to honour their love for each other.

The Early History of Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is named after Saint Valentine, a Catholic priest who lived in Rome in the 3rd Century. There are many stories about St Valentine and over time these stories grew into the legend we know today. Devoted to Rome and therefore passed a law preventing them from marrying. St Valentine began to marry these soldiers in secret Christian ceremonies and this was the beginning of his reputation for believing in the importance of love.

Eventually Valentine was found out and jailed for his crimes against Claudius. While imprisoned, Valentine cared for his fellow prisoners and also his jailor's blind daughter. Legend has it that Valentine cured the girl's blindness and that his final act before being executed was to write her a love message signed ‘from your Valentine'. Valentine was executed on 14 February in the year 270.

Valentine's Day Symbols

The practice of sending love messages developed into people sending special cards expressing their affection. These cards were beautiful creations handmade by the sender and individually designed to show how much they loved the recipient. Cards would usually contain sentimental verse, proclaiming the beauty of the receiver and how much they were loved.

Colombia’s Day of Love and Friendship

The rest of the world celebrates Valentine’s Day on 14 February, but Colombia has never been one to go with the flow. Rather, on the Day of

Love and Friendship, citizens go a little loopy sending love letters, exchanging gifts, and indulging in a bout of ‘secret friend’ (known to the rest of the world as Secret Santa, whereby gifts are anonymously given to one’s designated person along with clues as to one’s identity).

By: Yessica Damian

Paola fonseca 

Milena González

Happy New Year 

Happy New Year is a celebration on 31th december of each year, the people gether with their families celebrating this day with diferent activities, for example, eating twelve grapes and make a wish por each grape, another people prefer walk around the neighborhood with a baggage.

Many people just eating a special diner with their families, drinking wine and they hug celebrating the happy new year giving thanks to God.    

Many times, some people prefer to go to a park to see the fireworks.

For other cultures, this celebration is in other time, for example, the chinese new year start on february. 

Other example is the jewish new year than start on seventh month hebrew calendar.

By: Duvan Sora
       Christian Carrillo

Oktoberfest

Means October is celebrated among October and September in bavara de Munich since 1810.first

with a ´prince wedding and it is a celebration that starts at the moment that they eat German

gastronomy Oktoberfest has built a social event of some of those cities because it is an

opportunity to celebrate the ancestry and German culture.

In countries like Argentina Oktoberfest it takes place in in villa general where is chosen the general

Quinn of beer there are two million of people in this party

Brazil

It takes place inn blumenco the people dances and sings and they wear typical dress

Chile it is celebrated  in malloco city  near to Santiago and the gastronomy of ten country

Venezuela

It is celebrated in colonia Tovar there are many guest groups form Germany  and there are 12

variety of beer

Colombia

It is started in 2013It is served  typical foo’s  from Germany  and beer b

  Mexico

It is celebrated in Mexico City since 1971in Puebla, Cuernavaca Mazatlan y Guadalajara with

German gastronomy

by:leidy veloza
luz florez
Erika Arango

                                  HALLOWEEN

Halloween is the "Halloween" or "Noche de Muertos" which is held every October 31. It originated in Europe in ancient times, became popular in America in the twentieth century, and spread in recent decades worldwide. Many satanic and occult groups have taken on October 31 as the most important date in your calendar. This day is called the day of "Festival of Death" and is the eve of the new year for witchcraft.Satanists say the most important for the followers of the evil day is Halloween. On this night the hidden satanic powers and witchcraft at your highest power level. Satan and his powers are at their strongest point tonight.Halloween is directly linked to the occult. It is a fact recorded and documented that on the night of October 31 in Ireland, the United States and many Latin American countries black masses, spiritualist cults and others related to the bad and the occult meetings are held.Making a simple analysis, it is clear the negative connotation of the images that "decorate" cards, posters, stickers and costumes related to Halloween. Salta at a glance that the message of love, charity, peace and hope that brought us our Lord Jesus Christ is fully divorced from these bloody images that portray witches, witches, walking dead, vampires and other monsters that have nothing constructive. Halloween is, in itself, a "celebration" of evil. Halloween has its roots in Samhain, the festival where the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain announced the end of summer and the arrival of the "New Year". The participants wore masks and made bonfires to scare away evil spirits. Animal sacrifices were also made."Halloween today is, above all, big business"
   
BY: Stephanie Estrada  & Lourdes Franco 

Carnival of venice

The carnival of venice is an annual festival help in venice for ends of religious and is the colorful fest takes just the day before ash Wednesday. Its roots go bacj  to 1162 venetian masj  define the carnival, also attracts many theaters and troupes to participante in it.

If you want to participate, you must register whit good weather before of travel.

The festival is world famed for its elaborate masks,The people started to dance It was very famous during the eighteenth century Venetian masks can be made of leather, porcelain or using the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design, decoration, and often had a symbolic and practical function. Nowadays, most Italian masks are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.

 by : fernanda jimenez

YI PENDG LANTERN FESTIVAL, THAILAND VS DAY CANDLES IN COLOMBIA

It IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL festivals held in mid-November in this country, also known as a ritual of "floating candles" in order to help bring back their ancestral spirits, but the main idea of ​​this custom is a prayer, a wish and watch as your "Krathong" or "khome" floats away.

Every year millions of peoples have given their KRAHONG which is kind bowl, made of banana plants and increasingly become more famous because they in recent years has become a festival that lasts more than a day, three to five days. In no other part of Thailand's Festival of Lights is celebrated with more passion than in Chiang Mai, because it is the city that is beautifully decorated with lanterns and flags. However, it is the sound of firecrackers and fireworks what is most surprising to last until long hours of the morning. It is also an emotional performance and is not as expensive or too difficult to float the "khome" in heaven.

The moment GOING ON LAMPS ARE MADE PEOPLE CIERCULOS with family, relatives, loved ones and friends. Then make a wish and then floating in the sky lantern is released. Many people believe that with the first leg of the torch their problems go away. WHILE IN COLOMBIA CELEBRATES THE DAY OF CANDLES each year, the seventh day of December, it has some similarity AND ALSO MEET IN FAMILIES AND make wishes to image called Virgin Mary as in Thailand the god Buddha basically are religious beliefs and tributes that are made to these gods, in order to commemorate their existence.

The Christmas traditions, and the history of the coming of Jesus to earth, tell the time of the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary as a sacred time and full of light. Mary was chosen from before birth to be the mother of God, so she is the only human being who has been born without original sin. She was preserved from the stain of sin and his whole being is immaculate and full of grace is indicating religious belief.

  

 by:

Erika Correa 

Happy New Year

1. The celebration more know in the world is the party of end year that is called happy new year. The party is celebrated in differents countries with differents beliefs.
2. The families gather to celebrate the end of the year count, drink bear, wine or wisky because is the last day of year.
3. In this day count starts from 10 to 0 and screaming coming happy year and giving hugs, kisses and best wishes for who accompanies and at midnight (24:00) starts to eat twelve grapes of luck for the coming year.
4. Another way to welcome the New Year is with yellow shorts or running with a suitcase full of clothes according to travel all year.
5. When the people do this the look is present in this people because are beliefs that have everyone.
6. This event is very important in the New Year because it is only one day and has much encouragement to start the New Year.

By Deiver Herrera




CHRISTMAS

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JOHN CAMILO GORDILLO ESPINOSA

YANETH ROSERO YANEZ

CARNIVAL OF BRAZIL

The carnival of Brazil is an annual celebration. It is hold 40(forty) days before the easter. It has some variations Europe an also difference in the Brazilian territory.

The main celebrations are held in Rio of Janeiro, Salvador of Bahía, recifelolind and sao Paulo, where the schools of samba, blocos and bands take entire neighborhoods, some of the are: Mangueira, portela, unidos do viradouro, vai- vai, mocidade alegre.

Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil, the country completely stops during for a week all the morning and night of day. The typical genres of music carnival Brazilian are: the samba enredo, the samba de bloco, the samba marchinha, the maracatu and axe music.

The samba was originated in Bahia, but in the 19^th and 20^th century to developed. In Rio of Janeiro becoming in the most popular styles of Brazil. The sambas always have an environment warm and vibrant.

The samba is characterized for a sensation rhythm; the essential instrument characteristic of brazil are: tamborin, chocalho, reco- reco and cabaca. These dance with music of rhythm (2)two times of  (8) eight. The dancer has that play with the girl, and to seem very extrovert, they should use figures and movements that is difficult of realized.

The garotas most beautiful parade in the carnival show hers colorful fancy dress and decoration, are exhibiting her wonderful body. 

Heidy Gallo and Karen Ríos :p

YI PENDG 

LANTERN 

FESTIVAL, 

THAILAND

It IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL festivals held in mid-November in this country, also known as a ritual of "floating candles" in order to help bring back their ancestral spirits, but the main idea of ​​this custom is a prayer, a wish and watch as your "Krathong" or "khome" floats away.

Every year millions of peoples have given their KRAHONG which is kind bowl, made of banana plants and increasingly become more famous because they in recent years has become a festival that lasts more than a day, three to five days. In no other part of Thailand's Festival of Lights is celebrated with more passion than in Chiang Mai, because it is the city that is beautifully decorated with lanterns and flags. However, it is the sound of firecrackers and fireworks what is most surprising to last until long hours of the morning. It is also an emotional performance and is not as expensive or too difficult to float the "khome" in heaven.

The moment GOING ON LAMPS ARE MADE PEOPLE CIERCULOS with family, relatives, loved ones and friends. Then make a wish and then floating in the sky lantern is released. Many people believe that with the first leg of the torch their problems go away. WHILE IN COLOMBIA CELEBRATES THE DAY OF CANDLES each year, the seventh day of December, it has some similarity AND ALSO MEET IN FAMILIES AND make wishes to image called Virgin Mary as in Thailand the god Buddha basically are religious beliefs and tributes that are made to these gods, in order to commemorate their existence.

By: Leidy Rojas