Thursday, July 5, 2007
Happy 4th of July!
Many of you spent the 4th of July at the Tucson Convention Center where you listened to music, ate hot dogs and hamburgers, and watched the fireworks. This week, we invite you to share the traditions of your homeland's independence day celebrations. Please include the date, history, activities, and special meals associated with independence day in your country.
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I heard a lot about fireworks in USA and even though I am not so exited about it but I wanted to see a real one.
When I saw the notice in CESL that some students are going to arrange a van to get to down town for fireworks, I became so happy and my friends and I wrote our name on the list.
But when we went there on the evening of 4th July, I didn't expect what I saw. First, there was a parking lot where we wanted to watch "fireworks" and second there were not too many people. Even I couldn't find something to eat; they had only pizza and hot dogs.
I said to myself it's fine, let's wait for the "fireworks", but after the "fireworks" started, I thought I just wasted my time coming there, Is this the "fireworks"??? I heard some other student said, " in my graduation party I had a better fireworks then this"
In my country,Afghanistan, and specially in my City , Herat, for independence day we have a ceremony for several days, and each governmental office will have a big tent and they will serve food and play videos. For several days people go to work in day time and then come to the ceremony at night, playing games, watching movies and chatting.
It was nice to see firework. I was waiting for that ocassion. However, it was not as excited as I expected. In my country we also do some firework during specific ocassions, especially on the independance day. We celebrater our Independence Day on on 19 August. Afghanistan got its independance from Britain in 1919. There are different kinds of picnics and parties organized by public and private sectors. Usualy the governmental authorities celebrate the day by gathering in public parks and doing some parades.
In Afghanistan, where I come from the independence day is celebrated every year on 19th August. In August19,1919, Afghanistan got its independence from Great Britian.And for the 1st time the British governemnt officially recognised Afghanistan as an independent state.
The Independet Day celebration varies in diffrent parts of the country. In Kabul, the capital city, the celebrations are organiseed and encouraged mainly by the government and most of the time the president participate in the official ceremoney, while in other parts of the country the activities which includes taditional games and sports, life musics, camping and exhibitions are carried out maily by the public with little involvement of the governemnt.
Every year, we celebrate three different days for Independence related occassion. The first one is the 28th of April, an occasion which triumphed Mujahedin overthrew the communist regime. The second one is the 15th of February each year. We celebrate this day because the last USSR troop left afghan territory, embarrassedly. We have an official independence day which we celebrate on 19th of August. Because of defeating the Great Britain and became a full-fledged sovereign country, this day is important for every afghans. The celebration of these days associated with official military parade, fireworks and playing national game (Buzkashi) in different part of the country. Culturally, the Independence Day used to be a big occasion for holding music and cultural show festival.
When I was a kid growing up in Virginia, we used to go into nearby Washington, D.C. too see the fireworks. They were great. We also used to buy "illegal" fireworks (ones that had been smuggled into the area) and set them off in the neighborhood. That was even more fun.
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