St. Valentine’s Day – February 14

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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.

February the fourteenth day.

It's Valentine they say.

J choose you from among the rest,

The reason is I love you best.

Sure as the grapes grow on the vine,

So sure you are my Valentine.

The rose is red, the violet blue,

Lilies are fair and so are you.