Christmas Eve in Poland

Hi guys! ♡
So.. Christmas Eve is definitely one of the most important days (or rather evenings) for the most of people from Poland. Personally it's my favourite day in a year. I know that for example Americans celebrate Christmas just in 25th December (unfortunately I don't know exactly, how do it people from other countries), but yes, we most celebrate in 24th December. So what do we do?
We meet with our family, some people meet with their immediate family, like me, and some with their extended family too. A lot of persons start when the first star appears in the sky. Then we pray or read a fragment of the Bible, afterwards wish all the best to each other. Afterwords everybody sit at the holiday table on which are usually twelve traditional (and sooo yummy ♡♥) Polish dishes, like e.g. borscht with dumplings, pierogis, carp, salads, cakes and many of the other! In the middle of Christmas Eve is time for children who wait for their presents from the beginnig (of course, adults also get presents :p). Santa Claus is called Święty Mikołaj or just Mikołaj, by the way he also brings present in 6th December, because it's his feast!
We celebrate to about 8 o'clock and then start to prepare for the Shepherdess which is at 10 or 12 o'clock. It's really amazing mass and I honestly love it. We can already start to sing carols at this mass.
I think that I have written all the most important informations about Polish Christmas Eve. Obviously some people don't celebrate it or do it in another way, but I just wanted to describe overall this Christmas Eve which I and most of my friends know from our childhood ^^