Happy new year!

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#1

Hi!

I wish you all a happy new year!It’ll be nice if anyone share the way of celebration in each country!

Yesterday I had dinner with my parents, but usually the dinner is also with our cousins etc. Our typical new year food is a piece of pig meet called cotechino. The dinner is Always mainly made of fish, like shrimps or jellifishes.

Today, at 12:== P.M, there is an opera concert we Always (every beginning of the year) see at home. wWe lunch together, mainly with meet-made food. At the end of the lunch, we open panettone, a typical food of my country!!! It’s soooooooooo good!

#2

明けましておめでとうございます！

My family mainly just sits around at home haha.
We watch the celebrations on TV and all and I’ll be practicing shamisen. But, there’s lots of food!

#3

明けましておめでとう～！

Haha! Our new years was the same, Ian. :wink: I lacquered a doukake, worked on my homemade shamisen, then my family watched a movie and afterwards ate smoked salmon and champagne (plus a little shot of tequila). The mistake was finishing off the evening with a half-smoked cuban cigar I was saving. I had the first half three months ago. It was so sweet and smooth, so I saved the second half for later. Big mistake! Oy, it was so harsh and bitter! Hopefully that’s not an omen for the rest of my year. :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Happy new year everyone. I can’t really remember what I did outside of playing some sanshin. It shocked me, but my sanshin playing is even worse than my shamisen playing.

Have a pleasant year.

#5

I am sorry for your cigar Kyle! Did you had a case for it or was it in the freezer?

For New Year we always gather at my Grandma’s house for lunch and we eat too much… But this year the car went in the snow ditch and I was with Calvin. It happened 3 minutes before we arrived at my Grandma’s place.

Calvin just went out of the car, looked at his cellphone, turned to look at me and started laughing. So I started laughing too! The most amazing accident I’ve ever been in in all my life.
And the towing was quick and almost nothing on the car.

Memorable New Year memories!

#6

Without a serious off time and after the usual christmas tour of visiting parents and almost all other relatives I desperately was in need of doing sort of nothing as for that following weekend so I made it happen and had a good night’s sleep after all :slight_smile:

Seriously though as for the city of Graz you otherwise would want to ascend the one and only and 123 meters high “castle mountain” to watch the fireworks before descending and drinking again or alternatively as for my Salzburg county mountainous countryside original and about 1000 snow covered meters higher located home you would want to rent a little hut without any serious event facilities and party there . . . :slight_smile:

Meanwhile in Vienna . . .

#7

My friend, who lives in Japan, celebrated new year eating oseki! Then she stayed with her dad, who is sick and is suffering so much… and then she played koto for the olds of Chosei-mura

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