For most people, winter associates with Christmas illuminations, hot cocoa, ice skates, carols, and snow.
My story will be about all of these, except snow. Winter holidays here began with the St. Nicholas Day. Every year, all children find sweet gifts in their boots. We were lucky because Saint Nicholas visited our kindergarten in the first place. The Gift Season has been officially opened.
After the St. Nicholas Day, we started to prepare for Wigilia – Christmas Eve. At first, together with the Christmas elf, we learned kolędy – traditional Polish songs, which we performed later at the Christmas party.
We cooked ginger cookies for the parents. It was the first time when I cooked Christmas cookies in my life, but they were delicious, especially with hot cocoa.
We decorated Christmas trees and the whole classroom area. Now I know how to deal with tons of Christmas lights.
We went to the Christmas party to another kindergarten, where I sang the kolęndy we had learned together.
Also, we made gifts for parents, went on a tour to the old town, and a skating rink. It was my first Christmas without snow, but it was no less fun.
