One of my favorite events in Japan is… Omisoka! This day is a last day of one year. We clean house hardly and make an osechi (like a lunchbox which we eat them on new year day) to ready for a new year day.
Japanese have a culture called ‘toshi-koshi soba (year-crossing noodle)’. Japanese people traditionally eat toshikoshi noodles on New Year’s Eve before midnight. But most members of my family don’t stay up late usually, so I spent this day at midnight with my younger sister every year. That means my sister is the first person for me to say ‘Happy new year’ word.
But this year, I’m going to spent Omisoka with my old friends at friend’s house. Because this year is special for us! (We have coming-of-age ceremony in January.)
How about you?
What plan do you have in the day end of this year??
When I was younger I used to spend New Year's eve with my friends. We would all get together and order food, play games and watch movies. About 5 minutes to midnight, we would turn the TV onto the channel where they show the ball being dropped in Times Square and we'd watch that. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunatley now I always have to work on New years so I celebrate the coming of the new year with the other employees who couldn't get the night off.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment, Kelsey!
ReplyDeleteYou have a job on New Year's day... I hope that you have nice time with them!;)
I usually watch special music program on TV with my sister at that time:)