December, 2007:

Denpasar- Corby sentence may be cut to mark season. Convicted Australian cannabis smuggler could be in line for a Christmas present. The governor of Bali’s Kerobokan Prison Ilham Djaya today said he was recommending the former beauty student recieve a small cut to her sentence to mark Christmas Day, in recognition of her good behavior.
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Shopping centers become busier. Speaker systems in them play Christmas ‘carols’, the traditional Christmas Christian songs. Very often groups of people sing these carols raising money for charity. By mid-December, most people decorate their houses with Christmas trees, colored lights, make different decorations around the rooms. Some people decorate their trees with apples, nuts, and candles as it was in earlier times.

In many countries, most people send Christmas greeting cards with many wishes to their friends and family, and these cards are hung on the walls of their homes then. Traditional Christmas cards showed religious pictures – Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, or other parts of the Christmas story. Today pictures are often winter pictures, jokes, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times.

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