Halie
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Post by Halie on Nov 17, 2008 23:42:43 GMT -5
We have Australia Day (which celebrates the settlement of the British here) and Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, honouring those who fought at Gallipoli in WWI), can't really think of any other unique ones. Stupid American Comment Alert: Loved the Mel Gibson movie. So sad
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Post by Dominique on Nov 20, 2008 6:37:10 GMT -5
We have Australia Day (which celebrates the settlement of the British here) and Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, honouring those who fought at Gallipoli in WWI), can't really think of any other unique ones. Stupid American Comment Alert: Loved the Mel Gibson movie. So sad Lol yeah that's a good movie, I had to study it in high school though so I think that ruined it a bit for me!
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annak
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Post by annak on Nov 21, 2008 18:08:42 GMT -5
hmm... theres 'Sinterklaas' who is our dutch santa on December 5th. DUUUUDE! Poland totally has this too! Mikowai I think it's spelled. My parents are from Poland and when I spent a year there I got cool candy and small toys on that day. Do you guys have the tradition that you leave out your shoes and the morning of Dec. 5th they're full of cute little things?? I'm 20 years old and my mom still gives us ziplock bags of candy and she always throws in a fresh tube of mascara for me, haha.
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Post by Pilleriin on Nov 22, 2008 6:06:17 GMT -5
In Estonia children have this tradition of leaving their "christmas slipper" to next to a window and every December morning you'll find something in it left by elves.
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Post by Hanna on Nov 22, 2008 16:55:06 GMT -5
hmm... theres 'Sinterklaas' who is our dutch santa on December 5th. DUUUUDE! Poland totally has this too! Mikowai I think it's spelled. My parents are from Poland and when I spent a year there I got cool candy and small toys on that day. Do you guys have the tradition that you leave out your shoes and the morning of Dec. 5th they're full of cute little things?? I'm 20 years old and my mom still gives us ziplock bags of candy and she always throws in a fresh tube of mascara for me, haha. That sounds like an amazing tradition! I'll have to tell mom about that one. Even though she can't really do anything about it since we live so far away from each other...She usually sends me an advent calendar though, is that common anywhere else? A calendar with little presents every day in December up till Christmas Eve? Usually it's candy but last year I got like gum, and a toothbrush and necessary stuff instead
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Post by Hanna on Nov 22, 2008 16:55:37 GMT -5
Although, reading what I just wrote, candy absolutely qualifies as necessary stuff!
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Nov 22, 2008 17:27:34 GMT -5
My grandmother usually sends me one! It usually just has chocolate, which I love. I wonder if she'll give me one this year.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 30, 2008 12:01:58 GMT -5
Don't forget Memorial Day, Veterens' Day, Thanksgiving, MLK Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Columbus Day... None of which are independence days Plus schools usually get Thanksgiving break, Christmas Break, winter break, spring break, summer break, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur... The schools around me never get breaks for religious holidays except for Christmas, which is hardly a religious holiday in America anymore. I wish that they would give holidays for Jewish, Muslim, etc. holidays, but they don't. In my school, we even got Good Friday and the entire next week off for our Spring Break because of Easter. I don't like how public schools handle holidays
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 30, 2008 12:10:29 GMT -5
hmm... theres 'Sinterklaas' who is our dutch santa on December 5th. DUUUUDE! Poland totally has this too! Mikowai I think it's spelled. My parents are from Poland and when I spent a year there I got cool candy and small toys on that day. Do you guys have the tradition that you leave out your shoes and the morning of Dec. 5th they're full of cute little things?? I'm 20 years old and my mom still gives us ziplock bags of candy and she always throws in a fresh tube of mascara for me, haha. I took German in high school and on the 5th we celebrated St. Nicholas day. We made paper shoes in class and our teacher filled them with candy. I love this tradition. I especially like that Nick's birthday is on St. Nicholas day...unplanned by his parents, so they say.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Nov 30, 2008 15:23:58 GMT -5
My grandmother usually sends me one! It usually just has chocolate, which I love. I wonder if she'll give me one this year. Same here My grandma used to send us (my brother, my cousins and me) an advent calendar with chocolate, it was such fun! Now I think she gives one just to my youngest cousin. I wouldn't get one anyway because I know she couldn't find a calendar with chocolate that is certified being gluten-free.
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annak
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Post by annak on Dec 5, 2008 3:39:51 GMT -5
I remember getting a lot of advent calender's for christmas in Poland, haha. I still get one every year!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Aug 11, 2009 9:48:03 GMT -5
Thought of this the other day.
We have the American system instead of the metric system, I know this. And, for cooking, we measure in cups, ounces, etc whereas everyone else would use liters, etc. But for small measurements, what do you use (everyone else)? Like, we have tablespoons and teaspoons--so what is the everywhere-else equivalent?
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Post by killjoykali on Aug 11, 2009 10:39:26 GMT -5
I've thought about that before. I always thought it was weird that America was pretty much the only country that doesn't use the metric system. I don't know though because I live in America.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 10:59:09 GMT -5
I am terrible at baking... but for the small measurments we also use tablecpoon and teaspoon. And in some receipes there is coffeecup instead of desilitre (?)..
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Post by killjoykali on Aug 11, 2009 12:37:16 GMT -5
You use tablespoons and teaspoons? In America we at least use that too. But I've never seen the other 2 for measurements.
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