St. Patrick's Day

Hey everybody!


Have you ever heard about St. Patrick's Day? I think you have. Today a lot of people celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Let me give you some Information about this day.

I think it is a really cool day and it is celebrated in Ireland and all over the world by people of Irish heritage. It has become a celebration of Irish culture.

St. Patricks Day is celebrated 17th of March, but why it is even celebrated on the same day each year? Lets have a look at the history of this day.




St. Patrick

This day is the feast day of Ireland's patron saint Patrick. But who was St. Patrick? Patrick was born is Britain in 387. His parents, who were christian, named him Padráig. When Padráig was 16 years old, he was kidnapped by raiders from Ireland. The raiders took him to Ireland as a slave and there he had to tend sheep. He found out that his new home Ireland, were no Christian, the people there practiced a different religion. So Patrick was lonely and that was the reason that he start to pray. When he was 20 years old he escaped form the Irisch people and he was able to get back to Britain with a ship. Back in Britain, he found his family and decides that he wanted to be a priest, so he began to study and some years later he became a bishop. Patrick returned back to Ireland to tell the people there about what he believe. It lasted 40 years to tell all the Irish people about god, and some say that he converted all the people there to
Christianity.



shamrock

Everybody of you knows that one of the important symbols of this day is the shamrock, or three-leaf clover. This symbol is so impotent for this day, because Patrick used it to help the people to understand and to visually the concept of the Trinity = the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


Patrick died on March 17, 461 in the same place he had built his first church.







the found of the White House

So where ever the party is on March 17, everything is green: for example in Chicago the dye the Chicago River green, the found on the lawn of the White House gets dyed green too. Some People dye also their hairs or foods green. Everywhere are great parades, people wear green clothes or little plastic shamrocks or stickers saying "Kiss me, I'm Irish". Although this day is an Irish tradition the first parade that ever took place was in New York City in 1762. People drink Irish beer and eat Irish food, like a meal of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and soda bread and most of the people go to church in the morning. It is a time when children can eat a lot of sweets and adults can enjoy a beer at a local pub.



St. Patrick's day parade

I really like this day and that is why I would like to celebrate St. Patrick's day once in Ireland or in New York.








I hope you know now more about this day and maybe you also celebrate it once.


See you soon,

   Sabrina




This video is helpful to understand the reasons about that day.

Selena Gomez, a former teen celebrity

Hey everyone!

 

Everybody of you knows Selena Gomez, a former Disney star. Selena has become famous as a solo artist and actress and therefor she is for some of you a role model. Selena was also my favourite teen celebrity and for this reason I decided to inform you about my idol.

Selena Gomez was born on 22^nd July 1992 in Texas. Her career has begun with “Barney and friends”, there she played for two years. She got her first film role in “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over”, although she was only 10 years old. After that she played some small minor parts in other films. A few years later she was discovered from the Disney's channel and there she got roles in few series which have never appeared. Then she got roles in the films “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody“ and “Hannah Montana”, but she had her breakthrough in 2007 with the movie “Wizards of Waverly Place” and in 2009 she released her first pop album Kiss & Tell. Gomez entered into an on and off relationship with pop star Justin Bieber in 2009, but their relationship ended in 2013. Other projects over the years include the film Spring Breakers and the album Revival, with the single "Good for You.".

Currently there is the rumor that Selena Gomez is together with The Weekend, because the two were often seen together lately. However, she also published new songs in 2017 which are a catchy music. In my opinion, we will hear some more news from Selena in the near future.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 

See you soon,

 

   Sabrina

Selena Gomez, 2017