Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day

By Anastasia Macovei, Rosa Lina Aragón

Mother’s day is a festivity which commemorates the mothers. In each country it’s celebrated in different dates. This festivity was created by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, and at first it was the day of the mothers for the peace, and then it became a festivity for every mother in every country, in a lot of countries in the world.

The first celebrations of Mother’s day were in the ancient Rome, in Rea’s honor, the mother of the gods Zeus, Poseidón and Hades.

Mother’s day in Perú

In Perú, this special day is on 2^nd of May, and it is a very special day for all the mothers who live in this country. In this the mothers meet with all the family.

Nowadays In the villages, people contract bands or orchestras to celebrate this day.

Furthermore, students make presents for their mothers in the schools. They devote poems, songs and dances to them. They also prepare a basket with products for their mothers.

Teachers and students decorate the classrooms, and the last they invite their mothers to dance.

Mother’s day in Romania

After the first World War the ONU decided that at 8^th of March will be celebrated the mother’s day.

In this date the boys give a special gift to the girls, they give them a species of flowers that only exist in Romania: ‘’Martisor’’.

In Romania, when we celebrate mother’s day we celebrate also women’s day, mother’s day, girl’s day, this is the reason because the boys give presents to the girls.

All the boys give present to the girls, it doesn’t matter if they are dating or they are only friends, this is a tradition.

Also they can pay homage to his mothers, or prepare the dinner, or go out with all the family. In this day all the family is very united.

The small students do performances, or recitate poems, songs etc.

For all the mothers it’s a very special day, in this day we can show our love, because a mother is a very important person in our lives, she gave us the life that we have and their love for us is enormous!