christmas parties
Christmas time is huge celebration event in London. There are so many parties and so many events that it is unbelievable. The city decorations are being placed from mid November while the offices decorations are putted at the beginning of December.
Nowadays, everywhere and everything is decorated. The formal celebrations are separated to two events. The first event is the Christmas which is taking place on the 25-26 of December. It is considered to be a family celebration event, plenty of the people are going home to their parents or relatives. Everything is closed at those days including shops and transportation, the city is going to be stopped….. The next event is the new year evening, the night between the 31/dec to 1/jan ... it is the party time while a huge mass of people getting drunk and going to the Trafalgar square to the happening. The huge Trafalgar Christmas tree (20meters long) is already standing at the Trafalgar square. This tree is donated each year to London people from Norway country for helping them during the Second World War.
Before the actual Christmas holidays are starting, from the beginning of December there are plenty of organised parties. This parties are social parties and mainly to bring together the colleagues of the work. In my case, we have already had; a research team dinner, a lab people launch, the student union Christmas party. The next week we have the department Christmas party and the institute Christmas party .... too many parties ... really ... in our research team we have decided to make the next year party in August ... so it will be a bit of change :-)
The research team dinner was really good, we went to German restaurant which was very nice as a place but the meal portions were so small that we were hungry after it. Our team is very multi origin ... British, Greek, Italy, Israel, China, Japan, Germany, Egypt, Spanish ... hmmm did I forget anybody ?
the guy with the blue shirt is Ferdinando, my supervisor :-)
The other party which we attended with my friend is the student union Christmas party. It was so-so because most of the people were really young ....
The friend who take me there is Abbi, he is like me - just started his ph.d in robotics. He is religious Muslim guy while his parents are originally from Egypt. As you probably know, it is not allowed to drink alcohol by the Muslim religion so he drinks Pepsi while I drink beer :-)
The funny thing was that we have decided to make a picture with the Santa Claus ... as the representative of our religions, me for the Jews and him for the Muslims wished him a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!!!
Nowadays, everywhere and everything is decorated. The formal celebrations are separated to two events. The first event is the Christmas which is taking place on the 25-26 of December. It is considered to be a family celebration event, plenty of the people are going home to their parents or relatives. Everything is closed at those days including shops and transportation, the city is going to be stopped….. The next event is the new year evening, the night between the 31/dec to 1/jan ... it is the party time while a huge mass of people getting drunk and going to the Trafalgar square to the happening. The huge Trafalgar Christmas tree (20meters long) is already standing at the Trafalgar square. This tree is donated each year to London people from Norway country for helping them during the Second World War.
Before the actual Christmas holidays are starting, from the beginning of December there are plenty of organised parties. This parties are social parties and mainly to bring together the colleagues of the work. In my case, we have already had; a research team dinner, a lab people launch, the student union Christmas party. The next week we have the department Christmas party and the institute Christmas party .... too many parties ... really ... in our research team we have decided to make the next year party in August ... so it will be a bit of change :-)
The research team dinner was really good, we went to German restaurant which was very nice as a place but the meal portions were so small that we were hungry after it. Our team is very multi origin ... British, Greek, Italy, Israel, China, Japan, Germany, Egypt, Spanish ... hmmm did I forget anybody ?
the guy with the blue shirt is Ferdinando, my supervisor :-)
The other party which we attended with my friend is the student union Christmas party. It was so-so because most of the people were really young ....
The friend who take me there is Abbi, he is like me - just started his ph.d in robotics. He is religious Muslim guy while his parents are originally from Egypt. As you probably know, it is not allowed to drink alcohol by the Muslim religion so he drinks Pepsi while I drink beer :-)
The funny thing was that we have decided to make a picture with the Santa Claus ... as the representative of our religions, me for the Jews and him for the Muslims wished him a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!!!
posted by KGena at 7:39 AM
3 Comments:
Yaroslav4ik, a kak je nasha ve4erinka u tebia, kak v tom godu :(
no worries, next year we will organaise a huge party in london ;-) are you planning to do anything together this year ?
nea, kol exad be seret shelo :(
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