HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL DAYS

All countries have their holidays and special days. There are some of Belarus holidays:

• New Year.

Every Belarussian person looks forward this holiday. In the beginning of December they decorate their houses ahd New Year's trees, buy presents for each other. 2 days before New Year's Day they buy products for New Year's dinner. People usually celebrate this holiday at home but sometimes visit any event.

On New Year's Day people speak, eat and drink, give presents, make New Year's Resolutions, watch New Year's films, listen to the President's New Year's Message.In the morning of the first of January childen open their presents that brought them Ded Moroz.

• Maslenitsa

Maslenitsa is celebrated on the week before Lent. All week people make and eat pancakes. It's a holiday when people "say Goodbuy" to winter. They make effigies of winter and burn them.

On Sunday people say "Sorry" to all their relatives and friends for all the bad things that they did for them. And they answer them "God will forgive".

• Kupalle

Kupalle is celebrated on the night between 6 and 7 of Jule. People make bonfires and jump over it. It look likes a purification of evil spirits.

Girls make wreaths of wild flowers. At night they lower them to the water. In the morning of 7 July girls look at the wreaths: if it stayed on the water, it will bring a lucky.