Turkey and dumplings

My husband and I (the second from the right in the photo) and two Chinese friends once spent Christmas with a friend’s family in the city of Licester, UK, in 1998.

Magical Christmas memories

With a cinnamon-scented tinge spicing up the air and snowflakes settling softly on the pine trees outside, my family and I pulled out the decorations for the Christmas tree. Each ornament held a memory as we placed them one-by-one on our tree, which stood grandly in our living room. My sisters and brother joked and jostled with one another as we hung the tinsel.

A Canadian country Christmas

The kids were still pretty small, probably 3-1/2 and 5, and they informed me that it would be much more fun to go to the forest out back to cut a Christmas tree by ourselves rather than just buy one from a lot in town. (I guess they got the idea from a Christmas cartoon on TV)

Kiwi kungfu Xmas

I study at high school in Christchurch, New Zealand. I live with a local family and another overseas student from Brazil.

Roast duck – German style

Christmas is Germany’s most important public holiday. t’s winter in Germany and the perfect Christmas is white. In Germany, children often leave home very early and live far apart from each other, but Christmas is time for a get together.

Christmas Dinner Bulletin Board

Central Garden Hotel
6pm-7:30pm grand dinner buffet; 7:30pm-11pm live entertainment and lucky draw; 11pm-midnight ball. 388 yuan per person for adult, 120 yuan per person for children Contact: 62178888
Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong
7pm—midnight Chinese, Western and Japanese style Christmas dinner buffet. Lucky draw first prize is a ticket to the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup or [...]

Parties

Christmas is the most important festival of the year for many people. Usually we like to stay with family and friends, but some people are forced to spend Christmas far away from their loved ones. For those expatriates who work or study in Beijing, how will you spend this Christmas? What kind of Christmas do you want?