I would say, happy holidays! ❄️🎄⛄️ Yes, today is kinda White Christmas in New Jersey. Snow adds a good mood for sure! I am Russian living in NJ , and for me Holidays is reason to do something festive, to add a little magic in my life, to see people who I like, just to spend quality time together. В общем, людям нужен праздник. Просто будни вводят в уныние иногда. Так что праздник это разнообразие в жизни. Я отмечаю это, а не религиозные смыслы. Собрались люди вместе, посмеялись, пошутили, отведали вкусняшек всяких, обменялись положительной энергией, насладились компанией друг друга, - вот это праздник. А религии и всё такое, это всё чисто индивидуально. Но это правда, что праздники поставлены на коммерческие рельсы, деньги делают. Но перемены идут, и скоро всё будет совершенно по-другому.
I’m sorry to hear about Diesel’s screams, hopefully isn’t anything serious. I find it really interesting you don’t celebrate holidays, does your family have celebrations together of some sort though? Admittedly they are rather arbitrary but it is pleasant to take a bit of time that is focused on spending time with family, at least given that one enjoys that sort of thing. For me at least, my traditions around Christmas are very traditionally Finnish. We start our celebration on Christmas Eve, with rice porridge with an almond inside it. Whoever gets the almond can’t talk until someone notices, and also gets to make a wish. Around noon, we go and watch the declaration of Christmas peace, which every city does, wherein they declare a time of peace for all people and animals, during which everyone should be peaceful and kind to each other. In addition, if you break the law between them and the end of Boxing Day, fines or punishments are doubled. This is partially to encourage good behavior, but also to let even police and enforcement people to spend the time with their families instead. After that we have a hearty two course meal, except so far divided apart that it’s more like two separate meals. The first meal is composed more of starters, such as a variety of canned fish, cold smoked salmon, pickled herring, liverwurst, potatoes, and some Karelian pies, except made into a wheat based dough so they are white. We eat this as much as we are able and save the leftovers for a redo on Christmas Day. The second meal is the main course, with three kinds of casseroles: liver, turnip, and carrot (maksalaatikko, lanttulaatikko, and porkkanalaatikko). You might have tried them in the cafeteria at LUT for example. In addition, we have a ham, smoked salmon and rosolli, which is a bit like Olivier from the CIS, or herring under a fur coat without the herring. On Boxing Day, often, my family will go to our cabin and light a fire and enjoy a coffee outside with our extended family, however we haven’t done this much as my parents are living abroad. Later in the evening we often drink mulled wine and eat gingerbread. At some point during the evening, we get visited by Santa, in person, though this year it was me as I was doing it already for a few families over here. He gives us our presents and we open them through the evening. Christmas Day itself is more of a complete day off, without really any formal plans besides going to the Christmas sermon at church, but more time to relax, enjoy spending time with family, and introspect on the year so far. It is much less celebratory, but for me, it is still more important, though that does really vary from person to person. We eat leftovers from the previous day in about the same groups and just generally have a good time, not taking anything too seriously. We do decorate a lot less than I’ve seen in the US and in general I would say it’s a lot less materialistic in Finland. I think we generally are much more focused on the spiritual part of Christmas, as well as spending time with family. Customarily Christmas is also a time when the families would eat and drink things that they couldn’t afford during the year, as a feast of all the things they wouldn’t normally have, a bit of respite from the winter. In addition we listen to and sing a lot of Christmas songs, in Finland, we even have a national radio station called Christmas radio (jouluradio) that you can tune into in December. This year I’ve been listening to it online at jouluradio.fi though as I’ve been abroad. Speaking of people only going to church on Easter and Christmas, that is probably the majority of Finnish people who belong to the church. It helps were Protestants and generally see religion as more of a direct relationship between us and god but it’s very common in Finland. The American PTO system is crazy to me though. In Finland, if you’re sick on your vacation you can get a doctors note and get those days back, not to even speak of being sick while you’re working. I was in New York one new year and considered going to see the ball drop, just to check it off the list, but honestly, I saw a bit of it beforehand, heard how insane it is around there and how long one should wait, that you can’t leave, go to the bathroom, or generally how uncomfortable it is, and decided it isn’t worth it. I would much rather spend it with the people important to me and have a nice calm glass and maybe have some fireworks than to get into a crowd of people to look at a faraway light show. We don’t really have a tv thing for the new year in Finland, but I’ve also spent a few new years in Kazakhstan for the new year and I found it really interesting. They treated it much more like Christmas there, and it was an occasion of gift giving, going to a bunch of friends and family, as well as a generally huge party. Do agree with you about a presidential speech not really feeling too fun, but it does make sense when considering that the Soviet Union was the one who shifted people from Christmas to the new year in order to minimize any religion from their lives, and how could they not make these new traditions center their glorious leader… Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a merry Christmas time of year and to all those that do, a merry Christmas to you too!
Christmas is not even called by the name of the Christ in Nordic countries or in Estonia.. It is Jul, Joulu or Kekri in old Finnish and something similar in Estonian. It is a winter solstice feast originally up here :D
Микаела, вы отмечаете новый год? В Америке мало кто отмечает новый год так как отмечает его в СНГ. В Америке больше отмечают рождество, собираются с семьей
""Christmas Peace Declaration 2023 (Turku, Finland)"" This has been read out about 700 hundred years in Finland.ua-cam.com/video/os5frQrqdDw/v-deo.html Finland settles down for this holiday. We take it easy. Also ""There are no provisions for Christmas peace for game animals, but many hunting clubs declare Christmas peace for forest animals. Some clubs declare Christmas peace for game on Christmas Eve at 12 noon and it lasts over Christmas Day. Others include Boxing Day as well.""
------------------- If I lived in America, I would buy myself THREE pistols at once: Parabellum, Uzi, and Ak-47. Also a TANK and an automatic grenade launcher. I don't know how Google translated it correctly...
Mikaela, new year is more important than christmas for russians because of bolsheviks who literally killed this holiday during the revolution in 1917 in our country. Communists did not believe in God, so they decided to vanish all the holidays which were connected to a church. This is very sad, but now we have what we have. That's it. Anyway, even nowadays there are some people who celebrate Christmas. Yesterday I saw some guys in a catolic church, the atmosphere there was wonderful. And also I know that some people will go to an orthodox churches 6th of January to celebrate the orthodox Christmas as well. P.S. Merry Christmas to you and Diesel!
In Finland the President speaks on New Years day at around noon. It's a boring nonevent, but some people are sort of obsessed about listening to it, even tho nothing of importance or surprising is ever said. Also a "Christmas peace" is declared on Christmas Eve at around midday. Crimes that are committed after the peace has been declared get judged slightly more harshly in court. People choose the traditions they want to follow, and recently a lot more people have been going out to dinner on Christmas Eve instead of cooking dinner for their families. It's kinda hard to get a table anymore unless a reservation is made early.
Your videos are quite nice to watch otherwise, but your way of speaking is fast and you don't pause after sentences. Also, the way you pronounce words is unclear. Listening is quite demanding for someone who doesn't know English well. It would be nice to watch your videos all the way to the end, but it's very difficult for me. Happy New Year and continued success to you.
Jesus origin story is copied from Hinduism and Lord Rama , who was born round easter. Xmas time is from pagan traditions, having party at winter solstice, was very typical pre christianity, it was easier to adjust religion to that. Julbocken (Sweden) Joulupukki (Finland) translated is Xmas ram / Yule goat , its from Krampus , There is nothing forcing people have xmas in Finland , i have lights in windows, but we dont really gather to one place anymore and shops i use do not even play Xmas music.
Merry Christma! Warmth in the soul - to warm yourself. To warm your dog. And so that there is enough warmth for your family.
I would say, happy holidays! ❄️🎄⛄️
Yes, today is kinda White Christmas in New Jersey. Snow adds a good mood for sure!
I am Russian living in NJ , and for me Holidays is reason to do something festive, to add a little magic in my life, to see people who I like, just to spend quality time together.
В общем, людям нужен праздник. Просто будни вводят в уныние иногда. Так что праздник это разнообразие в жизни. Я отмечаю это, а не религиозные смыслы.
Собрались люди вместе, посмеялись, пошутили, отведали вкусняшек всяких, обменялись положительной энергией, насладились компанией друг друга, - вот это праздник. А религии и всё такое, это всё чисто индивидуально. Но это правда, что праздники поставлены на коммерческие рельсы, деньги делают. Но перемены идут, и скоро всё будет совершенно по-другому.
🤗🤗🤗
Мика,будет ли прямой эфир (лайв)?на Ютюбе?
I’m sorry to hear about Diesel’s screams, hopefully isn’t anything serious. I find it really interesting you don’t celebrate holidays, does your family have celebrations together of some sort though? Admittedly they are rather arbitrary but it is pleasant to take a bit of time that is focused on spending time with family, at least given that one enjoys that sort of thing.
For me at least, my traditions around Christmas are very traditionally Finnish. We start our celebration on Christmas Eve, with rice porridge with an almond inside it. Whoever gets the almond can’t talk until someone notices, and also gets to make a wish. Around noon, we go and watch the declaration of Christmas peace, which every city does, wherein they declare a time of peace for all people and animals, during which everyone should be peaceful and kind to each other. In addition, if you break the law between them and the end of Boxing Day, fines or punishments are doubled. This is partially to encourage good behavior, but also to let even police and enforcement people to spend the time with their families instead. After that we have a hearty two course meal, except so far divided apart that it’s more like two separate meals.
The first meal is composed more of starters, such as a variety of canned fish, cold smoked salmon, pickled herring, liverwurst, potatoes, and some Karelian pies, except made into a wheat based dough so they are white. We eat this as much as we are able and save the leftovers for a redo on Christmas Day.
The second meal is the main course, with three kinds of casseroles: liver, turnip, and carrot (maksalaatikko, lanttulaatikko, and porkkanalaatikko). You might have tried them in the cafeteria at LUT for example. In addition, we have a ham, smoked salmon and rosolli, which is a bit like Olivier from the CIS, or herring under a fur coat without the herring.
On Boxing Day, often, my family will go to our cabin and light a fire and enjoy a coffee outside with our extended family, however we haven’t done this much as my parents are living abroad.
Later in the evening we often drink mulled wine and eat gingerbread. At some point during the evening, we get visited by Santa, in person, though this year it was me as I was doing it already for a few families over here. He gives us our presents and we open them through the evening.
Christmas Day itself is more of a complete day off, without really any formal plans besides going to the Christmas sermon at church, but more time to relax, enjoy spending time with family, and introspect on the year so far. It is much less celebratory, but for me, it is still more important, though that does really vary from person to person. We eat leftovers from the previous day in about the same groups and just generally have a good time, not taking anything too seriously.
We do decorate a lot less than I’ve seen in the US and in general I would say it’s a lot less materialistic in Finland. I think we generally are much more focused on the spiritual part of Christmas, as well as spending time with family. Customarily Christmas is also a time when the families would eat and drink things that they couldn’t afford during the year, as a feast of all the things they wouldn’t normally have, a bit of respite from the winter. In addition we listen to and sing a lot of Christmas songs, in Finland, we even have a national radio station called Christmas radio (jouluradio) that you can tune into in December. This year I’ve been listening to it online at jouluradio.fi though as I’ve been abroad.
Speaking of people only going to church on Easter and Christmas, that is probably the majority of Finnish people who belong to the church. It helps were Protestants and generally see religion as more of a direct relationship between us and god but it’s very common in Finland.
The American PTO system is crazy to me though. In Finland, if you’re sick on your vacation you can get a doctors note and get those days back, not to even speak of being sick while you’re working.
I was in New York one new year and considered going to see the ball drop, just to check it off the list, but honestly, I saw a bit of it beforehand, heard how insane it is around there and how long one should wait, that you can’t leave, go to the bathroom, or generally how uncomfortable it is, and decided it isn’t worth it. I would much rather spend it with the people important to me and have a nice calm glass and maybe have some fireworks than to get into a crowd of people to look at a faraway light show.
We don’t really have a tv thing for the new year in Finland, but I’ve also spent a few new years in Kazakhstan for the new year and I found it really interesting. They treated it much more like Christmas there, and it was an occasion of gift giving, going to a bunch of friends and family, as well as a generally huge party. Do agree with you about a presidential speech not really feeling too fun, but it does make sense when considering that the Soviet Union was the one who shifted people from Christmas to the new year in order to minimize any religion from their lives, and how could they not make these new traditions center their glorious leader…
Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a merry Christmas time of year and to all those that do, a merry Christmas to you too!
Christmas is not even called by the name of the Christ in Nordic countries or in Estonia.. It is Jul, Joulu or Kekri in old Finnish and something similar in Estonian. It is a winter solstice feast originally up here :D
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why don't you celebrate christmas?
Микаела, вы отмечаете новый год? В Америке мало кто отмечает новый год так как отмечает его в СНГ. В Америке больше отмечают рождество, собираются с семьей
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""Christmas Peace Declaration 2023 (Turku, Finland)"" This has been read out about 700 hundred years in Finland.ua-cam.com/video/os5frQrqdDw/v-deo.html Finland settles down for this holiday. We take it easy.
Also ""There are no provisions for Christmas peace for game animals, but many hunting clubs declare Christmas peace for forest animals. Some clubs declare Christmas peace for game on Christmas Eve at 12 noon and it lasts over Christmas Day. Others include Boxing Day as well.""
------------------- If I lived in America, I would buy myself THREE pistols at once: Parabellum, Uzi, and Ak-47. Also a TANK and an automatic grenade launcher. I don't know how Google translated it correctly...
Mikaela, new year is more important than christmas for russians because of bolsheviks who literally killed this holiday during the revolution in 1917 in our country. Communists did not believe in God, so they decided to vanish all the holidays which were connected to a church. This is very sad, but now we have what we have. That's it. Anyway, even nowadays there are some people who celebrate Christmas.
Yesterday I saw some guys in a catolic church, the atmosphere there was wonderful. And also I know that some people will go to an orthodox churches 6th of January to celebrate the orthodox Christmas as well.
P.S. Merry Christmas to you and Diesel!
Долой уныние!
Negative Nelly at it again lol.
In Finland the President speaks on New Years day at around noon. It's a boring nonevent, but some people are sort of obsessed about listening to it, even tho nothing of importance or surprising is ever said. Also a "Christmas peace" is declared on Christmas Eve at around midday. Crimes that are committed after the peace has been declared get judged slightly more harshly in court.
People choose the traditions they want to follow, and recently a lot more people have been going out to dinner on Christmas Eve instead of cooking dinner for their families. It's kinda hard to get a table anymore unless a reservation is made early.
Your videos are quite nice to watch otherwise, but your way of speaking is fast and you don't pause after sentences. Also, the way you pronounce words is unclear. Listening is quite demanding for someone who doesn't know English well. It would be nice to watch your videos all the way to the end, but it's very difficult for me. Happy New Year and continued success to you.
Are you orthodox? Well, finland is far away from rest of europe, i don't even know where's best for housing anymore.
Как видно английски родной, в финляндии тяжело будет, но есть русский и в России будет нормально, если что Карелия не сильно отличается от Финляндии
Jesus origin story is copied from Hinduism and Lord Rama , who was born round easter.
Xmas time is from pagan traditions, having party at winter solstice, was very typical pre christianity, it was easier to adjust religion to that.
Julbocken (Sweden) Joulupukki (Finland) translated is Xmas ram / Yule goat , its from Krampus ,
There is nothing forcing people have xmas in Finland , i have lights in windows, but we dont really gather to one place anymore and shops i use do not even play Xmas music.
Как быстро что переводчик не успевает, с русским на много лучше))
Надо в настройках уменьшить скорость видео до 0,75 в правом верхнем углу звездочка над видео
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