“Check” traditions
24 Dec 2007 | Life in Prague
It’s an honor to study in the Czech Republic, being part of local culture, share the traditions, but sometimes I don’t clearly understand their traditions and customs. I really adore Christmas atmosphere, decoration, snow, good mood, nice people in public transportation and how every employee of different shops, banks, post offices wishes me “Veselé Vánoce”. It’s a pity that I am already out of the Czech Republic and I didn’t have the chance to enjoy the streets of snow and how Czechs really enjoy staying in queues for Christmas presents 😉 . Speaking about customs and traditions, is it there somebody who is able to explain me the tradition of staying in the queues for at least 30 minutes, when outside is -10C and to buy carp? I like carp, but I don’t like freezing in the queue 🙂 . Before leaving Prague I have visited 5 places where authorized people were selling fish. Everybody were selling dead fish :- )!!! , so what’s the sense of buying dead fish, cleaning it at home, putting some salt and frosting it for 2 days? Come on friends, go to Cesco, ohh sorry to Tesco 😀 and buy how much fish you want whenever you want without freezing in the queue….or maybe you enjoy them 😉 .
In United States of Moldova everything is OK, a lot of snow and no queues in the shops, not because we don’t have money for presents, or we don’t like carp 😀 , it’s just we celebrate Christmas (Crăciunul ) on the 7th of January. Until then wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!