Friday 20 March 2009

Easter Celebrations and Easter Foods


How do you celebrate Easter in your Country ?


When do you celebrate Easter in your Country ?


What special foods do you eat at Easter ?

Post your answers.

Remember to write your first name, your school and your Country.

HAPPY EASTER

Mr W - St Lukes School - England

17 comments:

  1. Hello!
    Like England, here in Scotland, we enjoy Hot Cross Buns- just like those in the photo.
    Children always roll hard boiled eggs, which are decorated or painted. This is a Christian celebration, relating to the rolling away of the rocks and stones around Jesus' tomb.
    Children in Scotland always look forward to receiving chocolate eggs at Easter!

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  2. Hello..!=)
    We are three students from Cyprus~ Latsia Gymnasium...
    Elena, Elena and Ioannis!!!=0
    We celebrate the Easter in 19th of April.. Easter is the greatest holiday in the Orthodox Church.
    On the Good Thursday most women do their Easter baking of “flaounes” and “koulouria”. We also make red eggs and we decorate with lot of paint!!! =)
    On the good Friday we are preparing the Joudas it is a big bonfire is lit in the Church yard…On the good Saturday we barn it. In the night we go to the Church with candles and in the end of the sermon we go out and we enjoy the fireworks!! On Sunday morning most people go home, where red eggs are cracked and we eat “flaounes” and “koulouria”. On Easter Sunday we play traditional games and we change chocolate eggs and presents!!!

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  3. Hello, my name is Arda I live in Istanbul.Here in Turkey we celebrate Easter at 12th of April, it lasts 3 days.The first day we start coloring eggs and baking cakes for easter.During Easter we first go to the church and pray, sit there for a while then we visit our family members starting with my grandma, she is always prepares wrapped eggs, collored eggs and Ester cake for us.Everyone we visit gives us a basket full of chocolate shaped as a rabbit or another animal, sugar and collored eggs.I visit my friends and we talk for a while, eat the things we collected and watch a movie.We eat the things we collected but sometimes we can't finish it (Because it is too much) and leave it for other days.

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  4. Hi I'm Delfin I teach German at Istek Bilge Kagan Primary School. I've been working here for 4 years and I'd like to share my comments about Easter celebrations here in Turkey.

    Every year,in March first we do the necessary preparation for Easter, first we start to color the eggs, then as a tradition we prepare Sutlac (a dessert called milky rice) and Easter cakes, and we definitely cook Zeytinyaglı Yaprak Dolma (stuffed grape leaves with olive oil). 2 days before Easter we come together in the churches at night and we turn off the lights and pray in the church. On Easter day we put on our new clothes which are especially bought for that day and then we go to the church first and then visit the family members starting from the eldest member of the family.During of our visits we take eggs and an Easter cake with us to be given to the host.The next day we go to the graveyard to visit the graves of the family members.We really feel happy that day because it's a very important holiday for us.

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  5. Hello, my name is Adelina, my colleagues are Alina and Sanda and we are from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
    We learn at Colegiul Tehnic Raluca Ripan and we want to say that in our country at Easter we paint the eggs or we use beads to make wonderful egges for Easter.
    In the morning we go to the church and bring home "Pasti", holy bread and wine.
    For food, we are cooking sponge cake with nuts and poppy, we eat lamb meat prepared in the avon, and salads.
    The next day, boys are coming to the girls homes to spray them with parfume, to grow up! Girls serves the boys with cakes and juice.
    Wonderful holiday for all of us! It's a pleasure to be together and to celebrate this holy Easter!

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  6. Hello, my name is Arda I live in Istanbul.I'm a student at Istek Bilge Kagan Primary School. I'm in grade 8 and I'm 14 years old.Here in Turkey we celebrate Easter at 12th of April, it lasts 3 days.The first day we start coloring eggs and baking cakes for easter.During Easter we first go to the church and pray, sit there for a while then we visit our family members starting with my grandma, she is always prepares wrapped eggs, collored eggs and Ester cake for us.Everyone we visit gives us a basket full of chocolate shaped as a rabbit or another animal, sugar and collored eggs.I visit my friends and we talk for a while, eat the things we collected and watch a movie.We eat the things we collected but sometimes we can't finish it (Because it is too much) and leave it for other days

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  7. Enjoy your easter eggs & Don't forget to brush your teeth when you finished

    Jonathan
    St Lukes
    England

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  8. I eat easter eggs then go to bed then play on my xbox 360 play halo 3 and halo wars.

    james innes St lukes school England

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  9. I eat easter eggs and we have easter lunch and I see friends and we have a hoiday off school.



    Joseph stlukes in England

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  10. Hello my name is Suna i live in England. I don't celebrate Easter but in Easter in school i have Easter lunch with my friends and teachers and at 12:00 in the afternoon i go home and i play with my sisters to play Easter hunt. Thank you for reading my story.

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  11. I go to yorkshire to see my cousins with my family and do day out trips
    Joe in St lukes in England

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  12. I normally go to Jersey for Easter with my mum and dad and my Brother.I like
    to eat a chocolate Easter eggs and I like to visit other places.
    By Steven wilkins, St Luke's School, England

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  13. i STAY AT HOME WITH MY FAMILY . my friends at school get chocolate eggs but I don.t like chocolate.
    christopher porter
    st. lukes school Redbourn England

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  14. "My mum bought me chocolate eggs. On sunday, (12th of april, this year), she will hide them in our garden and in our house; she and me, we usually eat salad and pizza."
    Syntia (Yr 3) Boudonville, Nancy, France.

    "We stay as a family. Easter Bells are coming above our house and we have to find chocolate eggs (or others), to pick them up ...and to eat them !
    Olivier (Yr 3) Boudonville, Nancy, France.

    " On the early morning, on Easter sunday, we are looking for the chocolates that the Bell and the Easter RAbbit put in our garden.
    Manon (Yr 3) Boudonville, Nancy, France.

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  15. " We have feast at grand-ma's and then we pick Easter eggs in her garden. We generally eat "pâté lorrain" (meat pie traditional in Lorraine) with plenty of salads and some home made desserts, eggs white with custard, "charlotte au chocolat" = chocolate sponge cake.
    ... (Yr 3, Boudonville, Nancy, France.

    " The Easter Rabbit bring us eggs in our garden and children are looking for them everywhere.
    We usually eat lamb, vegs, chocolate and a cake in the form of a lamb !
    Elias (Yr 3), Boudonville, Nancy, France.

    " We don't celebrate Easter.
    Asia (Yr 3) Boudonville, Nancy, France.

    " We gather one or the other family. After our feast, we are looking after eggs in the garden.
    Of course, we (parents) tell the origin of that celebration. At the moment, children mix Easter Rabbit and Bells from Roma.
    Menu : at maternal gdma's, the "mouna" is our traditional Easter cake.
    At paternal gdma's we eat the traditional leg of lamb.
    Louise (Yr 3), Boudonville, Nancy, France.

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  16. Dear John,
    Thank you for asking us that question because I had never share that with my pupils'parents. You perhaps know that in France we have no religion lessons. So we are not used to speak about Easter, only chocolate and eggs...
    But last week I read the Bible (catholic) with my Yr3. They were really interested. Even if we have muslims or atheists or...
    And we explained all our bank holidays explaining if they come from religion or other.
    And parents participated at home. Very rich !
    Isabelle, Boudonville, France

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  17. "We only keep the tradition of chocolate eggs."
    Léandre (Yr3), Nancy.

    "We have a family meal, with leg of lamb. Then children pick up chocolate eggs in the garden. And we make an Easter tree (is this a german tradition, asks Lou-Anne 's Mum??).
    Lou-Anne (Yr3), Nancy.

    "We have a family meal at grad-parents'home. We eat leg of lamb."
    Christophe (Yr3), Nancy.

    "We don't celebrate religiously Easter, but usually, we hide chocolate eggs everywhere in the house, in the garden, on the balcony...We eat leg of lamb or roastsbeef with potatoes and green beans."
    Emma (Yr3), Nancy.

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