Christmas is my favorite holiday

There are many holidays celebrated throughout the world. Christmas is one of the traditional holidays to celebrate the birth of Jesus. No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth, but most Christians observe Christmas on December 25. On that day, many people like to go to church to enjoy their time, to stay together at home with family and to sing Christmas song. Christmas is my favorite holiday because of the presents, the good spirit of the city and my family getting together.

Firstly, it is well-known that the Christmas holiday is about spending the time for gift giving. Everyone is happy to exchange presents, which is a traditional custom to express our wishes to our friends, relatives and co-workers. Every Christmas holiday I receive many different kinds of precious presents. Last year, I received a Christmas card from my best friend Mei, that was one of a beautiful and unique gift for me as it was made by Mei herself. Giving is a joy seeing the one opens a present with joyful emotion, and receiving is the time with surprise and delight. Every year, I enjoy the moment of choosing some special gifts for my friends, relatives and partners. Even as time goes by, our memory of Christmas holiday will stay forever as our precious presents.

Secondly, when Christmas is coming, the city seems to be filled with good spirit. Every place has displays of various decorations including Christmas trees, lights, nativity scenes and holly. People are well dressed to celebrate Christmas traditional holiday. You can hear different Christmas songs and poems anywhere, and you can see the red hats and dresses fill with the world. We are like princess in a fairy kingdom. I am accustomed to hanging out with my friends on that day as we can receive the special gift from Santa Clause. It is a wonderful time for us to embrace ourselves into a city with good spirit.

Finally, Christmas is a time for family to be together. We get together to decorate our house and be ready for our Christmas dinner. My younger sister and I always volunteer to decorate Christmas tree with gifts, lights and dolls, and my parents prepare our delicious dinner which is with turkey, pudding, and roast duck. I like to stand by my parents to learn how to make a turkey, but until now I still haven’t learned to how to make it delicious, so the only thing for me is to enjoy our dinner. After our dinner, our family spends this wonderful time singing songs and chatting with each other. Laughter and happiness are full of our house. Christmas almost always creates a sense of family and belonging.

Christmas is celebrated in most countries around the world, which has both a strong religious and traditional meaning. The Christmas holiday is an amazing time for me, because I love the presents, the good spirit of the city and being together with my family. The Christmas holiday is approaching, I hope Santa's bag is stuffed full of goodies for all of us in 2008.