New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand has many interesting holiday. Christmas holiday is one of them. On 26 December there's a carnival at Car0lain Bay. It's great for familys to spend their holiday here. It has air trampolin, bungee jumping, mini train and various kinds of contest or concert. That's how New Zealand people spend their Christmas.

newzealand also has a boxing day which is for postmen who delivered many plesents on Christmas. people give them some gift to show their gratitude on december 26. on this day people have big sales so they have no time to rest after they enjoyed their party.

Japan

In Japan Christmas is for lovers. Many couple would go to town to see illumination. They exchange their presents and have dinner together. It's different　from New year's holiday ｗｈｉｃｈis for familys. Ｎｅｗｙｅａｒ'ｓ day is much more importont for us. We go back our pearents' s home and eat special food ｌｉｋｅ rice cake, osechi. Ｍｏｓｔ of them are Japanese food. Eating them sometimes mean our wish ｔｏ live a long life.

Boxing Day (My speech)

Boxing Day is for postmen who delivered many presents on Christmas. People give them some gift to show their gratitude on December 26. On this day people have big sales so they have no time to rest after they enjoyed their party.

It is also said that church gather some money from reach people for buying pour people’s presents and this is the day when they opened presents. Boxing came from this custom. But nowadays people are more likely rash into shops to buy whatever left after Christmas season. Like Christmas many people want to enjoy this day.
　
Those sales are taken place in many countries like Australia, America, England, and so on… But in Japan many shops would soon change their products for New Year’s Day. Cues many Japanese spend their New Year’s Day in Japanese stile so many shops change pretty Christmas goods to gorgeous New Year’s goods.

Boxing Day is also called St.Stephen’s Day. St Stephen is killed by Jewish people, because he called Christ as a son of God.

This custom seems to start in England. So it’s possible that this custom spread to New Zealand while this country was part of England.

New Zealanders tend to go shopping with their family on this day, Because They buy a lot of goods which is discounted very cheap. So they need hands to carry them to their houses. Big departments are much clouded and there are some troubles every ear.

On the other hand Japanese people’s mind immediately change to their next event-New Year’s Day soon after Christmas is over. So they might be busy with writing their New Year’s cards.