New Zealand says goodbye to 2020, celebrates 2021 with fireworks
- New Zealand is one of the countries of the world already celebrating 2021 as other nations are waiting to be ushered into the new year
- The country joins other nations like Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati/Christmas Island in celebrating the new year first
- 2020 came with a lot of challenges and people around the world hope 2021 will be a better year
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As the world waits to walk into 2021 in some hours from now, New Zealand is already celebrating the new year with fireworks.
In a video that was shared on Twitter by Bloomberg Quicktake, beautiful fireworks could be seen announcing the beginning of a new year as the people immersed themselves in celebration.
Other countries that are also in 2021 already include the small pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island.
Tweeps took to the comment section of the post to celebrate the new year.
Source: UGC
A Twitter user with the handle @SarahChamps3753 wrote:
"Im (sic) in Auckland City with my family and just saw the fireworks - Happy New Year Comfortably Smug!"
@MichaelNotABot8 commented:
"I’m jealous. I’m just starting December 31st."
@AnObliviousGeek commented:
"New Zealand has just been lucky all year; The (sic) did a wonderful job handling the virus/pandemic.
"They have Jacinda Ardern as their leader. And they get to go into 2021 before us 2020-ers."
In other news Briefly.co.za reported that an SA lady spent the last morning of 2020 taking breathtaking pictures. A young South African woman is saying goodbye to 2020 and she is doing so wonderfully. The beautiful young queen can be seen braving a clearly dangerous waterfall to take some stunning pictures - and boy are they stunning.
The post that was made by TuttiRamzy on Twitter, features herself laying down in what looks like the most refreshing water that overlooks a waterfall that is graciously yet viciously spilling water down the beautiful landscape.
"Last morning of 2020," she captioned the beautiful post.
South Africans loved the beautiful pics. Many of them took to the comment section with dozens of questions. Read one of them below.
@ntshuni asked: Hi there I am just a stranger on the internet curious about this, please help "1. How do you get up there? 2. How do you make sure you don't slip and fall? 3. Is the water not pushing you to the edge?
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