UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - NEW YEAR'S DAY

By: Maria Jesus

The United States covers almost all the territory of North America. Forty-eight of the states are located on this land mass. There are two other states that are Hawaii and Alaska. These two states are not attached to the other 48. The U.S.A borders with Mexico, Canada, the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Washington DC.The language spoken in this country is English. It’s the fourth largest country in the land and third largest in population and the world’s largest economy center in the world.
New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 st. It’s a celebrated all over the country. On this day people don’t have a specific way to dress or a specific food to eat. This is because all people celebrate differently. For example some people go out to huge parties, others stay at home, and some people celebrate with there family. A place where everybody wants to be on New Years Eve is New York in Times Square. A million lights of different colors and fireworks cover the sky. On 1997 the city government of New York decided to go on with the festivities of Times Square New York and made an activity that is called “dropping of the ball”. This activity involves a half –ton Waterford crystal ball going down as almost all New York counts down 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Happy New Year’s!!!

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