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Christmas Eve in Poland
Christmas is a very important time in Poland. Traditionally, it is the time when a whole family gets together, celebrates, and rests.
The most important day of Christmas is Christmas Eve which takes place on the 24th of December. On this day families get together to eat a traditional Christmas Eve dinner. The dinner starts when the first star can be seen on the sky. The menu varies from region to region but there are some common elements and dishes all across Poland. Most of Poles are Roman Catholics and religious elements are much present in celebrating Christmas. The table is set with a white tablecloth under which some hay is put to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Customarily Christmas Eve is a day of lent so there is no meat (except for fish) on the table. The dinner starts with a prayer and sharing of holy wafers. Family members wish each other happy Christmas and a lot of joy in the comingyear.
All in all, there should be 12 dishes served during the dinner, which stand for 12 apostles. The first course is soup. It is either beetroot soup with mushroom-filled little dumplings, sour rye soup (white borscht), or mushroom soup. Then the dinner continues with pierogi with various fillings and fish (especially carp) that may be fried or served cold in gelatine.
The time of Advent is time of preparing to Christmas. There is a lot of cleaning, washing and wiping windows. Sometimes we clean carpets. Everything must be clean for Christmas Day!
Before Christmas, children in schools and pre-school are making "Jasełka" (Nativity play). They have many commons with Christianity.
Christmas Eve starts when the first star shines. Before we begin Christmas Eve we share a wafer and a we wish Merry Christmass to each other . 
Mateusz Snopkiewicz, Kamil Kosianko, Paweł Ćwikilewicz
Christmas Eve in MACEDONIA
We celebrate Christmas Eve on 6th January. The whole family gather on Christmas Eve and have dinner. Mothers make bread and put coins into the bread.She breaks the bread into pieces. There is a belief that who ever finds the coin in his/her piece of the bread will have luck the whole year.
Christmas Eve in Romania
We celebrate Christmas Eve on 24th December. ON the Christmas Eve children decorate their Christmas Tree.Their parents take care and finish the last details for the Christmas dish. The honsewives finish the forcemeat rolled in cablage leaves and put them in the pot to boil, they fry pork and bake the pound cakes and take them ont of the oven .There is a wonderful flaviour in the house.People wait with much joy for the children and the young people who come carroling , then they all sit arount the table to eat and have a glass of plum brandy or wine.They also sing carols.
CHRISTMAS EVE IN LITHUANIA
Christmas eve in france
At Christmas Eve,you watch TV,go to minight mass,play games and decorate the table.At afternoon,you play games and visit the family.At evening,you open the present and go to mass.