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My Russian New Year in Italy

Almost All my friends are leaving Russian Italians greet the new year at home in Russia. So it has become a tradition, shared by all the winter holidays of conscience: Catholic Christmas Day - with an Italian native, and New Year's Eve - at home, with parents and friends. Only this time the mountain will not go to Muhammad, Muhammad - in the face of my mother - came to me himself, and even in the midst of transportation and the collapse of the Arctic Moscow airport! And this, I tell you, was our first New Year in a foreign land!

Incidentally, it is worth noted the primacy of the Catholic Christmas over the New Year in Italy. Christmas - this is truly a family Italian holiday, with many relatives, endless feasts and gifts. Just like our New Year! At that time, as the New Year here - it is an occasion to gather with friends, organize a party at home or go dancing.

And here we have this New Year has turned completely Russian: from the tree, dressed old soviet toys and garlands (thanks mom) with the chimes and the speech of the president (thanks to streaming!), with the beloved "Ivan Vasilyevich (thank you friends for the DVD), which for me, the Future 31 December each year, with traditional Olivier (oh, no thanks !)... Later, however, we went for a walk on New Year's AC Milan in the vain hope expressed by her husband "Spend at least half the calories eaten."

And that's what we saw: the city center was packed elderly ladies in mink coats, arm in arm with cavaliers, merry youth, sharing a bottle of champagne from plastic cups, teenagers, intimidating above mentioned ladies, homeless dogs and unexpected explosions of firecrackers, the young Italians and Slav in short skirts who want to ... kh! ... meet ... tourists and numerous representatives of Asian and Arab community in Milan. Police in parade bdila on many street corners.

to the main tree of the city that before the Duomo, we have never reached: we nastrozhila brisk cannonade Amateur fireworks coloring the night sky in all colors of the rainbow, and a crowd of mink coats, obviously trying to take away those same skins away from obkurennyh teenagers with firecrackers.

Trams from the center were filled: people are tired, apparently, drive home - who some sleep, and who continue to feasts ... The result of these festivities the next day we read TV: mangled firecrackers children hospitalized with alcohol poisoning teens - Just like here in Russia! Only here and warm in a fight no one climbs!

Happy New Year to you!