COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS

I still haven't met a person that doesn't get excited about this time of year, and if I did, he/she wouldn't be a friend,I assure u. It's in a month from today!!!! Today is when you hang your calendar  filled with little chocolate treats, or those are the only my Grandfather used to bring back home from Germany. I am sure there are different ideas of Christmas calendars on walls hanging all around the world.

It's the time of the year where we indulge in family traditions, reminisce of our childhood memories, or this Christmas is when we make new traditions. Make it the best Christmas yet!

Since our planet is divided by equator, people celebrate Christmas in different seasons. And here are ideas what you can do in the upcoming month in your hemisphere.

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

It's cold, it's snowing, it's warm at home, it's Christmas time with family in front of the fireplace. Decorating the house and bringing in the fresh-smelling Christmas tree. Wrapping yourself up in red coat or scarf. Painting your nails red or gold.

Get your beloved, best friend or mum and have a date month. Go for a hot chocolate reunion in your favorite cafe. Christmas shopping of ornaments, new, warm and snugly PJ's, stockings,red underwear for the big night, and dresses. Find the biggest erected Christmas tree by your town and hug it, take picture. Find Santa and sit on his lap, no matter what's your age. Write a Christmas list. Organize a date on an ice ring and go skating. Go out and snow ball fight, slide down from a hill. Get recipes and make mulled wine, too much of it. Help mum or a friend with preparing and cooking of a Christmas dinner. Make Christmas cards and send to friends. Every one loves getting mail, especially if is especially hand-made for them. Sit one day and make your Christmas mix tape or playlist. Download or try and catch Christmas movies on TV cozy on your couch with your favourite blanket, with your favourite person. This year, make presents instead of buying expensive ones. Will be more appreciated since you put time, effort and lot of thought into it. Or tell of the ideas for secret Santa. That is when all your friends, colleagues or family members put their name in a hat or bowl, and each goes to pick one paper with the name of the person for which he/she needs to buy/make a present. This way you are only buying/making one present and right there is the Christmas spirit, anticipation and surprise of who is getting who what. Drink a lot of tea. Get yourself a Santa's hat to go with your outfit for work's Christmas party, or rain-dear ears, antlers and nose. Have fun with it. Read much. Reflect on the past year, write of what you've accomplished, are thankful for, what you could have done better and possible solutions for it. Write of your resolutions for the new year.


SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Well, in this part of the world is summer in its peak yet still you can go on a search for the biggest Christmas tree. Make cards, and make presents for secret Santa. Go shopping for a new bikini and a huge hat. Paint your nails in lighter, summer colours. Spend time tanning and reading at the beach. Play ball and frisbee, have competitions in water sports or who can consume the most cocktails. Organize BBQs on the beach and dancing around big fires. Ride the bike to and from work, go walking. Decorate a tree in your garden. Wear flops and light dresses. Have a big Christmas party on the beach or in your garden. Drink a lot of water, home made lemonade and write your lists. Make refreshing cocktails and fruit cakes. Go for drive-in cinema and watch a movie. Still make your Christmas playlist, being the summer try and get into the xmasy mood. Party Party Party, go outside as much as possible, feed on the vitamin D.

From the size of the paragraphs and picture you can see I am a northern hemisphere child spending Christmas in the southern and still not familiar how they get down with it.

Wherever you happen to be, be merry. Twinkle.


What is your big plan or tradition for Christmas?