Hello Lucy,

              I haven`t heard from you for so long, that`s why I was very glad to have received a letter from you. I do hope you are doing well and all members of your family are ok.
             In your letter, you touched the topic of national holidays in my country, it is a very interesting one, and I can proudly say that we have a number of them to celebrate. Just, for instance, we celebrate  Constitution Day on December 12th, Independence Day on June 12th and lots of others on different dates.
             My family does not celebrate all of them. We celebrate only our favourite holidays - International Women's Day and Spring and Labour Holiday. Usually, my mom cooks some delicious meals and we go for a picnic because the weather on these days is fine more often than not.

       Yours sincerely,                                     Maria.