Dear Thuy and members, Thank Th so much for your very fascinating and detailed discription ^_^ I totally agree with you at the idea that this is also a good opportunity for friends, family members and, of course, couples to show their friendship, their love by giving gifts to each other or having some parties together. It's not too difficult to understand the reason why the youth welcome such culture like this. Every event is just the pretext for them to gather and having some drinks. People drink both when they're happy and when they feel sad. Even the mid Autumn's eve, a particular evening for children only in my country, is now considered as a festival for couples and young adults to go out and have drink ^_^ It's one of the main cause contributing to the popularity of Christmas in a Buddhism country like ours ^_^
However, there was a historic event occuring to Vietnamese people in that special evening. The Viet Nam football team second time in the history defeated the ThaiLand's after 10 years of waiting, opening widely the door to win the first championship in Asia region. It was unbelievable. All fans in big cities rushed into roads, boulevards to celebrate the victory of their Vietnam's team instead of celebrating a special Christmas's eve for themselves. No matter who they are, boy or girl, young and old, children or adults, they all are fans of Vietnam's team and they all have an overwhelming love for the country Vietnam. They wore Vietnameses flag on their shoulder, runing cheerfully on roads and shouting clamorously "Vietnam - Champion! Viet Nam - Champion". That was a none-sleeping night for Vietnam's fans. I along with some friends were also of heated fans that night. We just returned home at about 3 AM. ^_^ four days later, we once more time had a marvellous party when Vietnam's team again defeated Thailand's in my own country to win the championship at the first time in our history. That was an extremely special happiness for Vietnam's team and fans. And it was selected as one of ten emergent events of Vietnam in 2008. It really deserves that high appreciation. Returning to the activity of our group, I guess many of you are in long spring festival and are busy with plans for a new year. So I suggest that we could consider this topic as a place to share your opinions or discription about your spring festival. OK? tell us more about your life if you don't mind ^_^ looking forward to hearing from you :) Thanks, Nam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nguyen Thuy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:10 PM Subject: [ESL Podcast] Re: Christmas description! > > Hi Nam, > > Although we live in a buddish country but Chrismas is still a special > season > for us to go out with friends or gather round family, isn't it? I agree > with > you that in recent years, Vietnam has imported many traditional cultures > from the Western countries, which makes Vietanmese people in general and > young people in particular have more opportunities to enjoy themselves. I > saw many people on the street on the Chrismas day, which made many big > streets in Hanoi become congested. This year I experienced the Chrismas > atsmophere earlier. Althoug I didn't have a big party with my family in > the > Eve night but it was still an unforgetable memory in my life. Three days > before the Chrismas, two my brothers, my sister in law and I bring two my > brothers' angels to the city centre to feel the Chrismas atsmophre in the > every corner of Hanoi. For me, it was a good opportunity for us to refresh > our relations because during the year we didn't have much time together. > The > children were very excited when seeing Big Chrismas Tree and Santa Claus > in > almost every stores in Hanoi. Then we had a cheerful dinner outside. I > spent the half of next day going out with my classmtes. Firstly, we sat in > front of the Opera House to talk each other because we hadn't seen each > other for a long time. Then we walked across many old streets in Hanoi to > feel the breath of them and the hustle-bustle of people who were preparing > for their Chrismas day. We took a lot of pictures of views and people in > Hanoi and realize that how beautiful Hanoi is. Finally we had a small > party > in a small restaurant in a small street in Hanoi and finished a joyful > days > with my friends in the Chrismas atsmophre. > > On the Eve night I didn't go out but stayed at home to watch the final > football match between Vietnam and Thailand with my roomates. I guess that > like me millions of Vietnamese people had a football party instead of a > Chrismas party in the Eve night because this was only the second time > Vietnam had won Thailand. Of cource, to celebrate the victory of Vietnam's > football team and welcome Chrismas day we also had a Chirismas cake > without > candles. Although the Eve night was very cold in Hanoi but the victory of > Vietnamese team was warm enough for me to have a nice sleep on that day. > By the way, for Vietnamese people in this group, can you describle for me > how people living near your house and you celebrate the victory of VNmese > tean when we got golden medal in AFF cup?^_^_^_^ > your friends > Nguyen Thuy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
