Start Esperanto with a few easy words A-Z and some grammar rules

Dr Zamenhof created the language Esperanto (which means I hope). An easy language. 

I started this list from words I learned on Duolingo.

 I filled in the missing letters by checkling online and a paperback Teach yourself Esperanto Dictionary.

 Esperanto - English

al - to

avo - grandfather

bela - beautiful

blanka - white (adjectives end in a

blua - blue

bruna - brown

capo - cap

Dankon - thank you

estas - is/are 

estis was/were

flago - flag

griza - gray

havas - have

helpi - help

infano - child

januaro - January

kara - expensive kastelo - castle kisas - kisses

libro - book

Londono - London (all nouns end in the letter o)

Mi - I

Ni - we

oktobr - October

parko - park

q - NO WORDS quality - kvalito

restoracio - restaurant

Saluton - hello!

tago - day

unu - on ne urbo - city

Vi - you varma - warm

w NOT USED

x NOT USED Xmas - Kristnasko

y No y, use the letter j, pronounced y

zebro (nouns end in o) - zebra zipo - zip 

mi estas instruisto - I am a teacher (instructor)

Mi havas uno filon. - I have a son (add n for the object of a sentence)

Tips

1 See my other posts on Esperanto for inspiration and encouragement.

2 You see how easy it is to recognize vocabulary, which you can do on Esperanto websites. 

3 You can convert Wikipedia into an esperanto version. 

4 Or turn a short article into Esperanto after reading the English.

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Xmas, Hanukah and Winter Food and Festivities Around the World

 

Hanukah Coinciding With Christmas

This year, 2024, unusually, the 8 day Hanukah celebration coincides with Christmas. The start of Hanukah is on Christmas Day, December 25th. The Jewish calendar, changes dates each year. 

In the USA Christmas celebrations include a Santas' run. 

The Christmas celebration started as a religious holiday which included a midnight mass in the church,. These still take place in modern times in the UK and Europe.

Midnight Mass

 I attended a midnight mass in a church in Prague. Also one in London at a Catholic church. The one we went to was free, but to ensure seats for everybody, and comply with regulations preventing overcrowding, you might need to apply several days in advance for tickets. 

Advance Booking

The musical and/or religious event organizers may also need to know numbers to provide seating for all. Also to cater for any water or wine or wafers to be distributed, and for sufficient ushers, security or first aiders.) Be prepared for a donation box for charity being passed around. You might need cash, unless the health regulations banning coins and notes handled by many people, require donations in advance or arrears by cheques, bank transfer, phone pay or some other means.

Christmas was established on December 25th as the birthday of Jesus (whose date is not mentioned in the two books of the Christian New Testament. The date in December was to replace the pagan festival of Saturnalia, and to be in the week of the Solistice or sun's calendar's shortest day, so that a festival of light would cheer people and seem a good omen.

USA Streets

Street lights in the USA adorn skyscrapers in business districts, and rooftops of houses and on front lawns.  One street is entirely decorated by a man to cheer his wife who has dementia.

In some places the lights are such as attraction that traffic jams form, and there is a ban on non-residents and for cars, and/or pedestrians of tourists / a charge / voluntary charity collection.

New York has famous lights such as the Christmas tree. To accommodate people of all faiths and none, some places have renamed trees winter trees. Jewish organizations or commercial enterprises have offered blue stockings resembling the red ones, and a Hanukah bush in place of the tree. 

Chrismukah

The ideas multiply each year. A combined festival for mixed faith families or gatherings has been named by the combination word, or abbreviation, Chrismukah. At first this was probably intended by some to be viewed as mocking and negatively but it has become popular and positive.

Russia

Russia celebrates with grandfather Frost. He wears blue and white. He has a house you can visit.

North Macedonia

North Macedonia is Eastern Orthodox Christian. They celebrate the birth of Jesus in January.

Useful Websites on Christmas

https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

Useful Websites on Hanukah

Wikipedia - Hanukah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah

Grapevine Kosher Wine Shops

https://www.kosherwine.co.uk/

tel> 020 8202 2631

Latkes and Salt Beef\

https://www.bksaltbeefbar.com/about

Donuts for hanukah time only in London, England, Margot Bakery 121 East End Rd, East Finchley.

https://www.margotbakery.co.uk/chanukah

Carrot and ginger soup recipe from the BBC

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/carrot-ginger-soup

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Tanglin Club Singapore, Xmas tree decoration, lights, choir

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 

Tree

The Tanglin Club in Singapore celebrated Xmas with a Christmas tree light-up. This year , 2023, a reinder was in blue lights. 

Santa

Santa as usual paraded around, then sat, so people could be photographed standing alongside. 

Choir

A choir sang carols from the sweeping senu curcular staircase.  

Stitl walker

Other entertainments included a stilt walker. You could be phtographed alongisde.

Photo Booth

My favourite was the photo booth. This was free. They had a series of hats and decorated glasses, headbands, beards. After having my photo taken, I went back to look at the table of accessories. I had seen somebody wearing somthing I preferred to what I had chosen. I was considering queing up again but the queue was too long. So I decided to wear it and ask somebody else to take my photo. Nobody was to hand. So I reversed the camer on my mobile phone and took a selfie.

Then I spied another head dress which I fanced wearing. Nobody in charge noticed or cared. So I took selfies of myself with all the props in turn.

Xmas Lights in Central Singapore, Decorate Scotts Road Trees

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
 

See previous post for pillars covered in fairy lights for the Xmas shopping season. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Winter white, light and bright.

Singapore is a fairyland of decorations in the centre. 

Useful Websites

https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/getting_around/public_transport/rail_network.html

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Cookery courses - travel to a bakery or cookery course - or learn online

 I looked up the IRCA recipes and found that they offer courses on bakery (making bread and pastries), gelato (Ice cream) and chocolate!They are in Italy, where they offer one to one courses and one to many courses. But also soon online.

If you want a free demo of what to do, the contests at the trade shows offer opportunities if you are not anchored to a stand. If you are looking for a distributor, you could stagger your lunch times so that your stand is always manned but use a lunch break to go off and watch the contests.

Courses

Who are the courses for and where can you do courses? For students and the professionals, to update, to train your own staff, as a perk or prize, as a holiday where you come home with a skill, to improve your status as a spouse or on a dating site, or to gift for a birthday or Xmas for a child (or spouse or sibling) or a grandchild. 

UK Armed Forces

At an exhibition in London I saw a stand by the navy. School leavers without academic qualifications and aptitudes, those who are more practical and like using their hands and seeing results, can sign up to the catering corps and receive in house (or on ship) training, accommodation taken care of, instant friends and social life.  

Not the usual situation of take a training course and then have the stress of applying for a job.  Instead a guaranteed job at the end of the training in a situation you already know,

Singapore

For the retired or approaching retirement, Singapore has a Skills Future programme which subsidizes courses within Singapore.

 Annual Training

For some years now it has been a requirement for workers to take about four days of training every year to update themselves in new technology, and to brush up their old skills and re-ignite their enthusiasm, as well as connecting with colleagues or others working in the same field as well as the experts. You have probably heard about teachers being away from schools on training courses - sometimes as surprise or inconvenience to parents!  My father who had two optician's shops, after retiring did locum work a couple of days a week, and he had to take updating courses on the latest equipment and identifying abnormalities inside the eye for noting possible diseases to ensure that patients got checked out medically. My son did an NLP course with doctors from a London hospital, keen to improve patient's morale and the doctor's bedside manner and the staff-patient relationship and communication.

My husband took a course on wine with WSET in London, which has now expanded worldwide. I have seen courses on chocolate making offered by chocolate shops at Xmas time. You can also give a cookery course to newlyweds, as retraining for the redundant, or as a new interest. The opportunities are expanding.

Warning

After a day at the exhibition, despite walking around the Singapore MRT stations, and around the exhibition halls, my weight had gone up!

Useful Websites

www.fhaHoReCa.com

https://www.irca.eu/en/company/history

https://www.irca.eu/en/recipe/recipe-detail-slug~192476

https://www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg/upskill/?

Your Favourite Photo? Pick your favourite from other people's. Sort your own photos by themes.

Fishguard Bay Hotel, Wales. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

A classic picture with a frame from trees meeting overhead. I had to run back along the road to the right spot to create this view.

A photo contest prompted me to look back at some of my favourite photos. What are your favourites? Can you make a montage? Or group the best ones?

Food and drink which tells a story. Madeira wine in Madeira. Photo by Angela Lansbury

I thought it was a British red postbox. But it is a Spanish or Portuguese one in bright red, known as pillar box red.
.

Snow. Andorra. Sharot Family.

Outside in the gardens of Singapore. Palm trees and fountains. Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Red carpet entrance and Christmas decorations. Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

I like the way the musical instruments made of glass are celebrating on the gallery.

I know he is only a plastic blowup snowman, absurdly in the tropics, but he looks so jolly that he makes he smile.

The colours of the ceiling change in rotation. Singapore.

Madeira. Triangular traditional houses. Now shops.

The blue bridge. Singapore.

The delightful drink dominates.

At New Year, the universal new year, it is good to look back or forward. For Chinese New Year, to plan ahead. 

How to sort photos? I was shown how to do it by the head of the New Zealand national photographic club years ago. 

Logically, list chronologically in numerical order. Add lists which group photos by theme, such as countries, and/or cities, or subjects such as museums, nature, people, family. 

You find each picture using the generated numbers, which could include the year, perhaps after a decimal point. For example, if you went to Edinburgh for New Year's eve and took a photo, it might be listed under Edinburgh 1.31/12/2000. The second photo you took would be 2.31/12/2000. Or the year and then the number. Edinburgh: Year 2000. 1 Castle. 2 Scotsman in kilt.

 Another list might be Castles: 2000.2. Scotsman in kilt.   

Nowadays you can group photos on pages by theme on Instagram and in Pinterest. Or start blogs by subject. I have a blog on travel. Another blog covers myself in Dress of the Day.

Useful Websites 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10473005/The-stunning-winning-images-2021-Travel-Photographer-Year-awards.html

 About the author of this blog post

Angela Lansbury

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

 Please share links to your favourite posts.

Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

Easter Eggs on Sale in England, already, In January

The Christmas decorations are down in some areas of Singapore. Our condo had removed the big blow up Santas and Xmas tree. Just the little ones on the ceiling were still swinging about, waiting to be taken down.

Over in Bukit Panjang shopping mall, the Xmas lights were gone. Chinese New Year lights were up in the atrium.

Meanwhile, over in England, the first Easter eggs are out in the shops. I made a typo. I called them Eater eggs instead of Easter eggs.

Easter Sunday is April 17th. In 2022.

 The Xmas and New Year holiday week is prime time for buying (customers) and selling shops for Champagne. Easter is the prime time for chocolate.

In the UK the home grown chocolate is Cadbury's. Milk Chocolate. It has a creamy taste.

American Chocolate

Hershey's is a brittle, black chocolate. Designed to not melt. Waxy. 

M & M's devised the alliterative and succinct selling slogan: Melts on your mouth, not in your hands.

Egg Choice

In the UK, on the far end of the family friendly are Easter eggs and chocolate rabbits and other animals and objects.   You can buy big hollow chocolate eggs wrapped in foil in an open sided presentation box. Chocolate eggs the size of a chicken's egg. Chocolate rabbits in foil.  Mini-eggs.

The good news is that Panettone which we have got used to seeing in supermarkets in London and Singapore and worldwide are also a food for Easter.

Whilst Xmas is over for some, others still have Xmas ahead. January 5th (Wednesday in 2022) is New Year's Even for some. Thursday 6th January is Christmas Day in Belarus.

We  bought Japanese chocolates called Royce. A nod to Rolls Royce. Each chocolate is wrapped in a see-through wrapper. A bit like After Eights. Royce has good presentation. However, I was not overwhelmed by the flavour or texture.

My favourite was the white orange chocolate bar we bought at Heathrow airport.

Useful Websites

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/easter-eggs-exeter-tesco-store-6435904?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=exchange

https://www.honeycopy.com/copywritingblog/melts-in-your-mouth-not-in-your-hands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/08/chocolate-day-hurray.html

About the Author

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

 Please share links to your favourite posts.

Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

Andorra Xmas lights in red and gold: tree, clock, slide

 

Shopping mall in Andorra, lit for Xmas 2021. Photo credit: A Sharot family.

In this photo, if you see it on a large screen, you can see:

The overhead lights with red baubles, 

The gilded Santa with a big beard, big belly, big boots and a conical hat, on the front left, 

On the right the word Farmacia (pharmacy or chemist as we say in the UK)

 The sign for Hotel  ...eka? 

Families with children, a man walking a dog. Everyone in winter clothes with covered legs and covered shoes. My family went there for the skiing at Xmas 2021.

 More photos to come!

Andorra at Xmas, Decorated clock. Credit Photo by A Sharot family. 

In this photo you see:

A decorated clock with an A shape roof bedecked with baubles. In the clock face is a bird wearing a red Sant hat. On the base of the

clock are a green tree and a bird with a red santa hat. In the shop window behind left is a  mannekin beside a red and white striped candy cane.

Hotel Roc Blanc, tree, angels with musical instruments, Santas in red and gilt,  parcels. Photo credit A Sharot family.

The slide in Andorra. Xmas 2021. Photo credit A Sharot family.

Andorra at Xmas, lights. You can see the slide here on the right. A mock tree is made of balls of orange and blue spheres of lights on the left. Photo credit from the A Sharot family.

Useful Websites

wikipedia

wikivoyage

About the Author

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

 Please share links to your favourite posts.

Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

I remember being shown how to use the panorama on my mobile phone at the Apple shop in Watford, NW London, England. 
 

PR CALENDAR. Planning PR for a year's worldwide themed meetings, online if not in person

BHA Meeting online.

TCA meeting online.

I am PR for two Toastmasters International clubs in Singapore, BHA and TCA - the A stands for advanced, so one of my jobs is to plan and distribute posters for forthcoming meetings, using themes and colours. The three obvious ones for the calendar are New Year for January, Love for February (Valentine's Day) and Christmas or winter celebrations for December. I am looking at pictures of foods and festivities so that people can either cook up the recipes to eat at home, or wear fancy dress (red Santa hats), or have a background colour. 

Here are the Ideas I have found for themed meetings.  

I thought of starting with August, but it is simpler to arrange things by the calendar from January to December. So, as I am writing in July, the calendar is Jan to Jun for 2022 and July to Dec for 2021. Here goes.

JANUARY 2022

Colours

Foods Scottish porridge, haggis, potato and neeps (turnips), shortbread

Music

FESTIVALS

January Sales

Famous People's Memorial Days

Jan 1 New Year's Day (New Year's Resolutions. Plans. SMART goals)

Jan 7th. Orthodox Xmas. (Family. Food. Gifts. Religion.)

Jan 26 Australia Day. (Australia flag.)

Photos

Jan 26 Burns Supper Night. (Haggis. Burns poetry.)

Jan 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Anne Frank. Jews. Holocaust. Yiddish. Gypsies. Homosexuals.)

2nd Monday coming of Age Day in Japan. (Age. Youth.)

3rd Monday Martin Luther King Jnr Day.

Online Toastmasters Club Dates: 

BHA (First Wed eve and third Sat afternoon) Wed eve 6.30 for 7 pm Singapore time, Wed Jan 5 in 2022.

BHA 3rd Saturday afternoon Sat Jan 15 in 2022, 1,30 for 2 pm Singapore time.

TCA  4th Tuesday evening Jan 25th 2022 7.15 for 7.30 Singapore time.

Both on Zoom.

FEBRUARY 2022

Colours Pink (for love) OOO Valentine's, red roses and hearts and , or orange for CNY

Food: Oranges, Lo Hei, chocolates

Music (I just called to say I love you)

FESTIVALS

Feb 1 and 2 (fluid) Chinese New Year (CNY)

Feb 6 Sunday 2022 New Zealand Waitangi day (Themes and symbols kiwi ,New Zealand map and flag, Maori, travel) (Mondayised so Monday is also a national holiday because Sunday is not a working day)

Feb 14 Valentine's Day (Themes and symbols. Love. Gifts. Hearts.)

Shrine to St Valentine in Ireland

Feb 15 USA Presidents' Day

Feb 21 2022 Chinese Yew Year (Singapore Lo Hei platter with fish and coloured vegetables and chopsticks)

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA first Wed is Feb 2nd 2022; 3rd Sat is Feb 19 2022

TCA 4th Tuesday is Feb 22nd 2022.

Music

MARCH 2022

Colours Green (St Patrick's Day) OOO

Foods Irish whiskey, potatoes, sourdough 

Music

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Molly Malone (In Dublin's Fair City, where the maids are so pretty)

FESTIVALS

March 1 2022 Pancake Day/Mardi Gras (using up food before Lent) 

March 8 International Women's Day. (Themes. Equality. Sex. Women.)

March 9 Teachers' Day (Themes books. Teach. Knowledge.)

March 17 St Patrick's Day (Themes Irish. Song. Speech.)

2nd Monday Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth flag

Online Club Dates

BHA 2022 first Wed is March 2nd; 3rd Sat is Mar 19

TCA2022 the 4th Tues is Mar 22nd

APRIL 2022

Colours Red Poppy for Anzac Day OOO

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

April 25 Anzac Day (Australia and NZ, Gallipoli, WWI)

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA 1st wed is wed 6th April 2022

3rd Sat is Sat April 16th 2022 

the 17 th is Easter Sunday so people could be busy away all weekend

TCA 4th Tuesday April 2022 is Tuesday 26th

MAY 2022

Mental Health Month and Mother's Day

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

May 1st April Fools Day

May 1st Labor Day

May 8 VE Day (Victory. Europe. Peace. France.)

Famous People 

May 7 Rabindranath Tagore - tribute to Tagore

May 16 2022 Vesak Day - Birth of Buddha

Buddha Statue. Vietnam.

2nd Sunday Mother's Day USA.

Last Monday in May is Spring Bank Holiday in the UK.

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA WED May 4th 2022
SAT 21st 2022
TCA  TUES May 24th 2022

JUN 2022

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA Wed 1st Jun 2022

BHA 3rd Sat is Jun 18th 2022

TCA 4th Tues is 28th Jun 2022

JULY 2022

TCA 4th Tues 26th

BHA first Wed 6 July 2022

BHA 3rd Sat 16 July 2022

TCA 4th Tues 26July 2022

(JULY 2022

(Hari Raya Haji July 9 2022)

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JULY 2021

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

July 4 American Independence (American flag. Themes: Freedom. War.)

July 14 Bastille Day. (American flag. France. Revolution.)

3rd Monday in July in Japan, Marin Day. (Sea, ships, sailors.)

July 20, 2021 Hari Raya 

Photos

Online Club Dates

In 2021

BHA  1st Wed was the inauguration of the new committee 

3rd Sat (past Lim Tong Lee)

AUGUST 2021

Colours Red and white for the Singapore Flag and the Swiss flag.

Foods Swiss Chocolate. Singapore chicken rice.

Music

FESTIVALS

August 1 Swiss National Day - Swiss flag, chocolate, time pieces, time

Aug 9 Singapore National Day, Singapore flag, chicken rice?

Photos

Singapore Flag

I have shown this bordered so that the white of the flag can be seen against the white background of the page. The plain flag is in Wikipedia but after months of searching and stress I finally found a bordered version in Wikimedia Commons.

Singapore flag. Red and white.

Swiss Flag

Flag of Switzerland. Red and white.

Online Club Dates

AUG 2021 BHA 1st Wed 2021 Aug 4th

3rd Sat 21st Aug 2021

4th Tues 24th Aug 2021

SEPTEMBER 2021

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

3rd Monday in September. Respect for the Aged in Japan.

Photos

Online Club Dates 2021

SEPT BHA 1st Wed 1st Sept. 3rd Sat is 18th

TCA 4th Tues is 28th Sept2021

OCTOBER 2021

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA Oct 2021first Wed is 6th; 3rd Sat is 16th 

TCA Oct 2021 fourth Tues is 26th

NOVEMBER 2021

Colours

Foods

Music

FESTIVALS

Photos

Online Club Dates

BHA first Wed is Nov 3rd . 3rd Sat is Nov 20th 2021

TCA fourth Tues is Nov 23rd

DECEMBER 2021

Colours

Red, white and green.

Foods

Music

Auld Lang Syne

Silent Night

Religious Christian

Secular Xmas

Xmas carols

FESTIVALS

Dec 24 Xmas Eve

Dec 25 Xmas Day

Dec 26 Boxing Day (UK) Sales Start!

Dec 31 New Year's Eve

Photos

Xmas Spruce tree London

Online Club Dates

BHA first Wed  DEC 2021 is 1st 

3rd Sat 2021 is 18th

TCA Fourth Tues 2921 is 28th

2021

JULY - JUBILANT JULY

Theme/WOD Jubilant

WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)

1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)

2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Wed July 7th 

Saturday 17th

July 4th American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST

1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches

2 Evaluations

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER

Wed 1st

Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS

Humorous Speech Contest

Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER

Wed 3rd

Sat 20th Wed

Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.

Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.

Hanukah (floating) starts in 2021 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER

Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)

Sat 18th

Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY

Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past

Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY

Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year

Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day is  upcoming, Feb 14, which is a Monday in 2022)

Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH

Theme

Wed 2nd

Sat 19

March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.

Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April

 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE

Wed 1st

Sat 18th

I am working on this list. It may take all day. Come back later to read more.

Useful Websites

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Singapore Public Holidays

https://publicholidays.sg/2022-dates/

USA Public Holidays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States 

UK Public Holidays

Australia Public Holidays

NZ Public Holidays

Canadian Public Holidays

South African Public Holidays

Indian Public Holidays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake

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