Monday, 7 December 2009

The Swedish New Year

New Year’s Eve!

I don’t think we do anything very special at New Year’s Eve in Sweden.

But we sure do celebrate it!

Some famous person makes a speech and we count down to 00.00.

The moment the New Year begins we shoot fireworks into the sky like everybody else.

We make toasts with champagne etc. to celebrate the New Year.

Some makes New Year resolutions about stuff like stop smoking, don’t waste money etc.



Jesper Sannerborg writing about the way he celebrates New Year’s Eve:


I don't know how you guys celebrate New Year, but I'm going to write a short text about how we do it the Swedish way!

At New Years Eve we usually eat some good food, then later on at midnight we go out and light some fireworks, Fireworks are great!

But unfortunately you can get seriously injured if you do something wrong...

I know a guy, he went out and lit some fireworks, but he wasn’t careful at all! He lit a firework and he didn't let go of it, he held on to the rocket

and was just about to let go of it, but he was too slow...

The rocket exploded in his hand, the hand just disappeared, the only thing left was some scraps of the hand! It was blood everywhere, like a fountain!

He ran in to the house screaming, they took the car and drove immediately to the nearest hospital.

He was lucky, he was close to die due to he loosed a lot of blood, But he survived!

However, that's not the greatest start of a new year.



Joel and Jesper.

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