New Year’s Eve Traditions

Whitney Norman
SJHS Staff Writer

New Year's Eve is one of the greatest times of the year. When everyone gets with their family, and either watches the news to wait until midnight, or just do family traditions and activities. Students at Springville Junior high explained that New Year’s Eve is a fun time to get together, and to just be with family and friends.

“We get together with our friends and stay up, and we dance to Mexican music. It’s just really fun!” Abi Santiago, an eighth grader at SJHS, explained, “Its very fun to see the New Year, and to spend the first day of the year with our favorite people.” Abi has a very special tradition that she does for New Year's. She and her family get 12 grapes, one for every month. Then they eat them all, and they make a wish after each one that they eat. They also like to drink apple to go with the grapes.

Eighth grader Shiri Stewart’s tradition on New Year’s is that her family gets to go over to her house, and they get to play games. One of her most favorite memories from New Year’s was when her uncle came down from Kansas to spend New Year’s Eve with her family.

“For our family traditions, friends and family comes over, and we do fireworks. It’s a lot of fun,” Trevor Bartholomew, another eighth grader, explained what his traditions were. “Once, my brother bought a whole bunch of fireworks, and when we lit it, it flew back into my house!”