Montenegro Edition
Resolution Map Day leads today's complete edition for Montenegro.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
New Year's Resolutions are nearly universal failures in every culture. Now that New Year's Day is a few days behind, if you truly intend to make change, today is when you map realistic goals on a calendar and write daily steps you can take to make goals real. If you won't write it today, you'll have nothing to follow tomorrow.
National holiday. The Montenegrin Christmas is celebrated on January 7 following the Julian calendar, and it begins with the church service and the breaking of the Christmas bread. The cesnica is a round loaf with a coin baked inside, and whoever finds the coin in their slice will have prosperity for the year. The Christmas table includes prsut, roast pork, kacamak, cicvara (a rich cornmeal dish with kajmak), and every dish that was forbidden during the Christmas Eve fast. In Montenegro, Christmas is not about presents. It is about presence. The tradition is to visit every relative, and Montenegrins take this seriously. You start with the closest family, then the extended family, then the neighbors, and by the end of the day you have eaten seven meals and drunk fourteen toasts. Christmas in Montenegro is a marathon of hospitality, and no one is allowed to leave a house without eating.
You witness the okapi and the Congo peafowl in the dense rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. You find that Congolese people primarily keep dogs, cats, and chickens as pets in urban and rural areas. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.