Сочинение на тему: Christmas

Хотя зимние праздинки уже прошли и мы все с нетерпением ждем весны, я добавляю в "копилку" и этот рассказ. Требовалось написать о каком-то конкретном дне из Рождественныских праздников, который запомнился.

Позже я отправила это рассказ на Международный конкурс по английскому языку - конкурс сочинений на английском языке.

Christmas
In Ukraine we celebrate Christmas on January 7th. It`s family religious holiday. It`s a peaceful and quiet event, which begins on January 6th with Sviata Vechera (Holy Supper). When the children see the first star in the eastern evening sky, which symbolizes the trek of the Tree Wise Men, the Sviata Vechera may begin.

I remember one particular Christmas when, in the evening, our family gathered in my granparent`s old and warm home. At that Christmas I was 15, the age when teens think that they are adults and that nobody can understand them. My father took out from a bookcase an old photograph album with dingy black & white photos and started to tell stories about his childhood. And I saw a picture of a young man: he wore bell-bottomed trousers, his shirt was unbuttoned, its ends were tied in a knot, his hair was uncombed. My father said "It`s me at 17". Then he added "Don`t stare at me; it was fashionable".

I was speechless. In that moment I realized that this always serious man with a bald spot, who wears glasses, has not always been like this. That at some time he was full of crazy ideas, did some thoughtless actions, and thought that nobody can understand him.