My 2017: Welcoming the new year - The beginning of a new chapter for a Writer
Writing this for the contest held by @anomadsoul, thank you for giving we minnow the opportunity to participate in.
Celebration of a new year in Nigeria
Crossing Over Night
Well, this is when people go to churches and pray to God for a new beginning. They leave as early as 7pm or as late as 10pm to pray to God to give them a year of plentiful blessings, good health or any personal desire they want in the new year.
Though we have some people who would rather pray at home before the clock strikes 00:00am 2018, praying fervently for a better year than the previous.
They usually pray into the new year and finally get some sleep later after praying.
- Party Freaks
Parties are held in communities or towns in celebration of the new year. A DJ is usually called for entertainment, foods and drinks are usually served.
Its like one big festival of party, you drink all the booze you can drink, eat what you can fill yourself with and party like never before. The party can be done in the night of the eve of new year or at night on new year's day or sometimes both.
Going Clubbing
Its time to party in the club, dancing all through the night. Yes, you can go clubbing to celebrate the new year. Enjoy your life, drink away your sorrows from 2017 and start afresh this new year.
- Foods and Drinks
As you might expect, there would be different kind of food people use to celebrate the new year,
- Nigeria Jollof Rice - The Nigeria Jollof is amazing and delicious. Its the best feeling the world when you taste it (if prepared by an excellent chef). Its rice that has a reddish-orange color. We can have sliced carrot, minced meat or sometimes slice tomatoes.
Fried Rice - Well, let's call it the senior brother of Jollof Rice. Its more of a matured kind of food. Greenish in color contains all sorts of veggies cabbage,corn, green pea, carrot, sometime thyme leaves. We can also corned beef and minced meat in it. its also super delicious.
Wine - Any kind of wine can be used to celebrate the new year from champagne to red wine to baileys or fruit wine even the local palm wine can be used to celebrate the new year.
Carbonated drinks and Alcohols - For those who prefer Beers and Carbonated drinks, they can also use it to celebrate the new year.
Pepper Soup- A soup so spicy, you could spit fire when you drink it. Pepper soup is delicious even though its really spicy. It contains all sort of stuffs. Depending on the type we have Fish pepper soup and Meat pepper soup. Both can contain all sort of stuffs like plantain, dried fish, cucumber, crabs etc.
Suya - A spiced meat which is smoked then added is sliced onions. Its awesome to eat and tasty. We have different kinds of suya also like the chicken suya, turkey suya, beef suya and so on.
Local Delicacies - Foods like pounded yam and egusi(melon), amala and efo riro(vegetable), ogbono, isiwu and all kinds of local delicacy you can think of.
Family Get Together
Spending the new year's day with family is quite popular, you could have a party or goto the mall and buy new stuffs. You could even have a picnic or view an amusement park.
- Fireworks
Yeah they are beautiful to watch. You could have fun with fireworks on new years day or watch people have fun with them.
Gratitude
I would like to thank @blocktrades for supporting @anomadsoul in this contest. I am grateful to them for supporting we minnows as without @blocktrades we won't get the opportunity to participate in this contest. @blocktrades I wish you a happy new year and a successful year to come. A plentiful new year and fulfilled new year.
Happy new year