Season’s greetings my friends!

Christmas is just a few days away. Oh, don’t you just love the spirit of Christmas? Christmas trees and Christmas decorations are looking spectacular across the city and neighbourhoods. Christmas carols are around almost every corner I turn. And I can almost taste the roast turkey already.

Can you also taste the festive season of Christmas around the world?

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Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noel! Mele Kalikimaka! Geseënde Kersfees! Meri Kirihimete! Sheng Dan Kuai Le!

That’s “Merry Christmas” by the way, in Spanish, French, Hawaiian, Afrikaans, Maori, and Mandarin. And that’s just to name a few!

Even Santa Claus has different names around the world. In Brazil, little kids know him as Papa Noel , In China, he is known as Dun Che Lao Ren , which means “Christmas Old Man”.

It’s also interesting to know the different ways people give Christmas gifts. In Ecuador, children write letters to the Christ child, which they place in shoes on the windowsill. These letters are “exchanged” for gifts on the night of Christmas Eve when the Christ-child is believed to pass by. It is similar in Germany, where children also like to decorate the letters with glue sprinkled with sugar to make them sparkle. While in Syria, presents are actually exchanged on New Year’s Day.

Isn’t it beautiful how we celebrate the same Christmas fun and gift giving across different traditions and languages around the world?

The great thing is, you don’t have to get tongue tied to join in on the fun of Christmas around the world. Sending a Christmas card expresses the warmth and joy of Christmas in any culture!

So, with just a few days left before Christmas, don’t forget to send a Christmas wish and a holiday season’s greeting card to everyone in your life, whether they are near or far.

Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas!