Thanksgiving

Hey everybody!

 

In our last English lesson we talked about Thanksgiving. When, where, why and how is Thanksgiving celebrated? Let me answer These questions.

This day is celebrated in Canada on the second Monday of October and in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November. Thanksgiving Day is a national Holiday in Canada and the United States.

The reason for the celebration is really easy to explain. Families and friends get together and thank God for the harvest.

The story of thanksgiving has begun as the british settlers came to America. They built a settlement, but in the hard and deep winter they had nothing to eat, except some fish. So they needed somebody to show them, how to grow things. In the spring of the following year some native Indians showed them how to do some farming. And a year later for the first time they managed to be successful in agriculture. In the end of the season they made a big event and thanked god for the good harvest. That was the beginning of the tradition.

 

Today families and friends come together and eat together a big stuffed turkey, with potatoes and vegetables. At the same time all over America, families come together on thanksgiving and that leads to traffic jams, but on the same day the people start moving, because on the next day the shops want to motivate people to start with the Christmas Shopping, they offer big discounts. That day is called black Friday.

 

I hope you know now more about this tradition and you enjoyed my entry and read my next again!

 

See you soon,

 

Sabrina