Traditions

Hey, when I started to write this article was 12:41 am of Sunday, but I was very busy and so I'm writting now the other part of the article. Well I'm going to talk about traditions. This because last Sunday I went to my uncle's house to celebrate my cousin's birthday, and I thought that in Italy there are a lot of traditions, I'm going to describe them. The best tradition is: we have the habit of eating together, infact we eat every day together, we don't eat fast food, but for  lunch and for dinner we all seat at the kitchen table and we eat together , talking and laughing, and having fun, this for some people is a good thing, but for other is not a good thing, for me for example is not very good, because I have a lot of homework and spend a lot of time for eating is not for me the best idea to spend my “ free” time. Many families oblige their kids stay like 1 hour at the table, I have never liked that. The next tradition is: stay for lunch at granmother house, usually granparents invite their “ children” to eat with them and their family, so all the family is together at least for a day. Mum and grandmother prepare all tipical dishes of the family and sometimes children play together, I don't have cousins that have my age, so have never played with them.
All the family and friends of the family  are reunited for Christmas, for this party all families prepare their dishes and take them to the landlord.
For Christmas usually people exchanges a kiss to their partner under a sprig of mistletoe.
I don't know if in other places ther is the wedding list, here  this is  disappearing, but many people still do this, the wedding list is a list of the most important things that a couple wish for their future house, so the guestes don't give them useless things.
Here in Italy teenagers become adults when they are 18, so this is like in America for 16, these teenagers/adults do a very big party with their family and their friends, and after they can have their car.
Talking about wedding, in the South of Italy people do a very long marriage, like 3 or 4 days of party, and all the guestes must stay with the newlyweds. Sometimes friends cover the floor of the new newlyweds' house with glasses with water, so when they want go into their house, they must remove all the glasses.