The Thanksgiving Day that I had this year was something awesome. I think it is very interesting and important to learn something new in life. And traditions of celebrating this or that holiday is important as well as useful. I mean when you live in another country to know some particular customs about the holiday. The thing is that we do not celebrate such holiday in my native country. That is why I learnt many interesting facts about the Thanksgiving Day and the way it is celebrated. I really enjoyed the holiday, and I am looking forward for the next year when I will have an opportunity to celebrate it once again and recollect all traditions which are connected with the holiday. As a foreign student I participated in the annual program organized to show us how the Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. One of the parts of the program was the dinner. Frankly speaking, it was my favourite part of the holiday. Other foreign students and our teacher were like a family. I liked the dinner not only because it was a very delicious, but also of the atmosphere which was during the preparation of the evening. The whole day I had a feeling that it would be a happy evening. I liked that feeling, because it was like a fairy-tale in which everything is possible. While preparation the teacher told us about the holiday. I learnt that the aim of the holiday is to celebrate harvest. In other words, the aim of the holiday is to God and everybody for warm relationships, help, and care. Many years ago it was a religious holiday, because people thanked to God for the harvest. Today, during the holiday people say “thank you” to everyone, not just God. The holiday is primarily celebrated in the United States, but it is also celebrated in other countries. As I already said, there are many traditions during the holiday. Our teacher told us that several generations of one family gather together to celebrate the holiday. Each of the family has to say “thank you” to everyone who is present on the dinner. By the way, I liked the fact that the meal which is eaten during the Thanksgiving Day today is the same as it was several centuries ago. By the way, the first year when the holiday was celebrated was the 1621 year. One of the traditions of the Thanksgiving Day is to present gifts. The presents are the symbols of thanks to older people, relatives, and friends. For example, the usual gifts during the Thanksgiving Day are chocolates, flowers, jewelry, candies, etc. another tradition of the Thanksgiving Day is decoration of the house. Usually, American people decorate their homes with flowers and wreaths. We decorated the place where we celebrated the holiday as well. Other students and I used different lights to decorate the room in which we celebrated the holiday. I liked the process of decoration because we spoke about different pleasant things with my friends and our teacher. Now I understand, why American people enjoy this holiday: because it is one of the ways to unite with dear people. Another interesting and pleasant tradition is to send messages to different people to say them “thank you”, and other pleasant things. I prepared several messages and sent it to several people. I also received messages in which my friends and close people congratulated me with the holiday. I liked this