Slovak Holidays

Every country has it's own culture. Here we talk about Slovak culture. Let's start it with holidays, shall we? Today, we are talking about holidays like christmas, not about the "not working days" holidays. We can talk about that later... Anyways, like a lot of countries we celebrate:

• Christmas
• Easter
• New year's eve
• Valentine's day 
• and other holidays

But we don't celebrate:

• St. Patrick's day
• Thanksgiving
• Halloween
• And if you are from a different country than the USA there can be many more differences but let's stick to those for now.

Christmas

Like many people around the world, we celebrate Christmas. The magical day for kids that get presents. On 25th of December right? WRONG! We actually celebrate christmas in the evening of the 24th of December. We have a special dinner and then we go and open up our gifts. And we do not have Santa also. The gifts come from Jesus. Right. Santa does not bring gifts to everyone in the whole wide world. I know, shocking but that is how it is. 

At the special dinner we have usually a special food pick. So in Slovakia we kind of have Thanksgiving and Christmas at the same time. Usually we have carp fish with potatoes or a potato salad. And a soup we call ''kapustnica'' which is a very good soup from mostly cabbage, a type of sausage, potatoes and beef.

Easter

If I remember correctly, americans celebrate easter by ''finding gifts''. In Slovakia, we come around our family and sometimes friends' houses (men) and women stay home and wait for the men that are basically ''armored'' with water and what I could call wood sticks. So women get splashed or whatever the technique is with water and then the men say a poem while beating women with the wooden sticks (not hard, it's pain-less).

Valentine's day

I haven't really experienced a full on Valentine's day experience, so I would just tell you stuff that is not true. But I know we do not celebrate cupid.

The one's that we don't celebrate

For example we do not have halloween also! I would love to experience it one day though. Walking around in a costume for free candy. We sometimes have a party but it is not like a straight up "holiday".

Thanksgiving is something that we all want to experience. It brings two of the best things in the world together: family and food. But we do not celebrate it.

I am not going to talk about mother's day and stuff like that, if you'd like to know about that write it in the comments.