Happy Belated New Years!
As you can imagine, New Years is celebrated a little differently here in Brazil. New Years is actually more anticipated and much more celebrated than Christmas.
While a majority of Brazilians celebrate New Years on the beach, watching fireworks and jumping over 7 waves for good luck, we stayed in the country with about 45 youth from church.
New Years Eve started with a lot of cooking. There were probably 10 people in the kitchen from 2 or 3 pm until midnight. Everyone else just rested, hung out in the pool, and helped cut vegetables when they requested help.
At 11pm we had a little devotional. At midnight, we shot off fireworks, everyone hugged and said happy new years. Then we had a secret santa with chocolate and then we all ate dinner!
Look at all that food! It was delicious!
Then we all stayed up for a few more hours and some people even stayed up until the sun came up.
You may have noticed all the white? It is traditional to wear the color of what you hope your new year will be filled with. White represents peace and is the most traditional.
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