NEW YEAR’S EVE:
In Spain, one of the most important days of the year i New Year’s Eve or as we say Nochevieja, when all the Spanish people are awake until very late with family and friends to leave a year and start a new one.
At midnight, we listen to the strokes of clocks on TV. The most popular is the clock in Madrid, in “la puerta del Sol” street.
As each stroke sounds, people have to eat a grape if they want to have good luck in the New Year. That means: first stroke, one grape, second stroke, second grape, we continue until the 12th stroke.
When the strokes finish, and all the people finish their grapes, the sky is full of fireworks and lights, it is beautiful, and everybody is happy making noise. Then we congratulate the year to each other.
After the strokes, there is lots of interesting TV programs about things that have happened in the year that finished only minutes before.
When we are in the New Year, people go to celebrate it with their friends to the night clubs and they dance all the night. Other people stay with their family in home remembering the past year, making future plans and having fun. And we have to stay with our family because we are too little now; maybe in a couple of years we will go to celebrate New Year together.
To stay with family and friends for New Year’s Eve is the best way to have fun and start a New Year.
Puerta del Sol in Madrid in New Year’s Eve.
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