St. Valentine’s Day – February 14

In England and in the United States, February 14 is St. Valentine’s Day. Boys and girls, as well as grown-ups, send valentines to their friends. A valentine is a little picture, very often a funny one, with a little poem or some kind words on it:

I'll be your sweetheart, if you will be mine. All of my life I'll be your Valentine.

Schoolchildren enjoy buying or making valentines for their friends and teachers. Very often they write on the valentine “From guess who,” and the person who receives it must guess the name of the sender. In schools, boys and girls make a gaily decorated box with a slit on the top where they can “post” their valentines. Usually each classroom has such a box, and at the end of the school day they open the box, take out the valentines, and the boy or girl who gets more valentines than the other children feels very happy.