	Advent Calendar - Day 9
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St Joseph's Como/ Oyster Bay in Sydney
New South Wales, Australia,
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In Australia, a different animal is often pictured pulling Santa's sleigh.
What animal do you think it could be?

Australians often call this animal a boomer

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Answer

Santa's sleigh is often shown being pulled by six white boomers! (That’s slang for Kangaroos!)

With special thanks to St Joseph's Como/ Oyster Bay in Sydney Australia, for providing us with the content of this page.

In Australia, many people decorate their houses with lights, figurines, etc.

Australia is in the southern hemisphere.

Winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in th southern hemisphere Right now children in the northern hemisphere are wearing thick jackets and scarves to keep themselves warm, on the other hand, children in Australia are enjoying hot sunny weather by going to the beach and swimming in their pools.

Australians eat a cold Christmas dinner rather than a hot one because their Christmas Day is often high twenties - sometimes mid thirty degrees!

Most Australian families have a variety of seafood, turkey, chicken, pork or beef as well as lots of yummy salads. Some people have traditional hot meals and pudding.

For pudding (dessert) they often eat pavlova or cheesecake.

On Christmas day, most kids swim, play cricket in the backyard (garden), go to the beach and generally have a fun time outdoors with family and friends.

A special hello and thank you to the following Australian students for sharing their special Christmas traditions with us. It is the end of the school year in Australia and they are all looking forward to their Christmas Summer holiday.

My family plays cricket on Christmas Day. Georgie A.

We have a nativity scene on display at our house. Lizzie.

We go to Church with my Grandmother on Christmas Eve. Matt H.

My mum makes a small village under the Christmas tree and it lights up. Tim W.

On Christmas Eve we walk around the streets looking at Christmas lights. Then we go home and watch carols on TV. Hannah.

We put a Christmas Wreath on our front door. Michael M.

We sit by the pool all day or sometimes go to the beach and have hot chips!! Riley

map Thank you St Joseph's Como/ Oyster Bay in Sydney for telling us about Christmas in Australia

St Joseph's Primary is a two-stream, co-educational Catholic Primary School located at Como - Oyster Bay, in the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. map

A typical Perth Christmas Day is VERY hot (38 Celsius)

Our family get together for breakfast at one of my daughter's home, where all presents are opened. Later, we will meet again for lunch. We have some of the "traditional" food, with hot beef, pork and turkey, but prefer some of the cold meats and salads. Desert will be some Christmas plum pudding, but again to have fruit salad and pavlova with LOTS of ice cream. We have to cool down somehow!

Have a happy Christmas!

David and Loyola Wares and family

Greetings from Melbourne, SE Australia. Map

Christmas is very hot here, as it falls in summer.

On Christmas eve, there is usually a church service outdoors on the school oval, everyone brings a picnic rug to sit on and we sometimes light candles to sing carols. On hot days there is a total fire ban, so then there are no candles allowed.

Christmas day afternoon is a good time to go down to the beach to try out any new beach toys. Once on a really hot day, I saw kangaroos cooling off in the surf. Some people celebrate with the traditional meal of turkey, but many people opt for seafood salads or barbeques.

Merry Christmas to you!
Paula Witney

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16 days till Christmas!

I hope it will snow this Christmas.
I want to go sledging and build a snowman.

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Australia

In Australia, a different animal is often pictured pulling Santa's sleigh. What animal do you think it could be?

Santa's sleigh is often shown being pulled by six white boomers! (That’s slang for Kangaroos!)

In Australia, a different animal is often pictured pulling Santa's sleigh.
What animal do you think it could be?