New Year's Day
New Year's Day is listed as a public holiday in Nauru.
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New Year's Day is listed as a public holiday in Nauru.
The calendar flips and every Argentine household is eating vitel tone, the cold sliced beef with tuna sauce that somehow became the definitive New Year dish. Toasts happen with cider, not champagne, and the pan dulce from the panaderia sits half-eaten on the counter until someone finishes it off at merienda the next day.
The whole country moves slow after last night's festivities. Sydney Harbour fireworks are still playing on every TV, and someone's dad is already firing up the barbie for a leftovers lunch. Recovery happens poolside or beachside, thongs on, cold tinny in hand.
National holiday. The dzezva comes out before noon because Bosnians do not nurse hangovers with water. By afternoon someone has already proposed kafa at a kafana and you will not see your couch again until evening. Every New Year starts the same way: with good intentions about being productive and a coffee that turns into four hours.
Jordan observes the Gregorian new year, and Amman celebrates with fireworks over the Citadel and family gatherings. The new year is a secular holiday in a country that observes both Islamic and Christian calendars, and the celebration is inclusive: Muslims, Christians, and Druze all celebrate, and the only thing that is not inclusive is the traffic.
The world's smallest island nation rings in the new year at the same moment as Australia, but with about 12,000 people instead of 25 million. The church bells ring at midnight, families gather for fried fish and rice, and someone inevitably points out that the entire population of Nauru could fit into a single Sydney suburb.
A day for practical kindness when weather interrupts the plan.
A day for the entrance that tells visitors someone cares about this place.
You encounter Samoan flying foxes, Pacific pigeons, and endemic Samoan parrots as the most iconic wildlife native to Samoa. You see that dogs, cats, chickens, and pigs are commonly kept as pets by Samoan families and farmers. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.