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The end of a long term

The Christmas holiday finally arrived.

Heres what the last days are like:

POLAND

We decorate Christmas trees at our school. There is

a big one in the corridor and smaller ones in the class-

rooms. All the classrooms are beautifully decorated

with baubles, ribbons, angels, Christmas cards and

decorations. Students belonging to one class have a

class meeting with their teacher. They share a wafer,

tell wishes to one another and then sing carols. They

also have a mela. They eat a traditional Polish dish or

just taste some cake. There is a special performance at

our school gym every year. Students present Christ-

mas traditions, tell

poem and sing car-

ols. The atmos-

phere in the last

day before the

Christmas break is

special.

Xmas in Maribor, SloveniaThere is a tradition that

we decorate our class-

rooms and on the last

day before holidays the

winning classroom is chosen.

Unfortunately our class has-

n't won yet. Some classeseven prepare a programme

inspired by a Christmas

spirit for the jury.

Here's a photo of a deco- rated classroom.

We also have a game in our

class and the game is called

The Secret Friend. Each gets

a name of a school friend

and has to surprise him or

her with small tokens of

appreciation

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Royal Grammar School,High Wycombe:

Prva gimnazija, Maribor: [Above putting up the treein the library]

Meanwhile in England ..... on thelast day of term we always havejust 4 lessons in the morning andthen the reports are given out. School

finishes at 1pm instead of 3.40.

In the last week we sing Christmas

carols in assembly instead of the usual

hymn. Pupils start giving out

Christmas cards and some lucky

teachers get a present.at the Polish school

MERRY

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Christmas Traditions

by Szymon (Poland)

In my house Christmas dinner

begins when everybody see

first star. Our tradition is

twenty dishes on table. We

make place for unexpected

guest. Only one dish In like .

Its be fish carp. Its delicious!!

Christmas in my home.

I describe you my typical

Christmas. In my home it's

really important time. We

spend it with all family. Every-

body are cooking, cleaning andsinging carols. We are waiting

for Jezus. When first star

appears in the sky we are

starting eat twelve special,

Christmas dishes. In my house

we prepare several zup like

urek, barszcz czerwony,grzybowa. We have also

fishes, potatos, salad, kutia,

peas and cabbage and many

more. We pray and wish eve-

rybody all the best with

Christmas Eve wafer in hands.

When we end do it we go to

Christmas Tree. Under the

Christmas Tree there are gifts

for every person of out family.

At the midnight we go to

church on pasterka. In next

day of Christmas we meet

with family again. We are

talking, eating and laughing.

Sometimes we go to walk.

Everybady are waiting for the

special time. We are happy

because we can meet with

lovely people and we get gifts.

ingredients include cinnamon

and sesame seeds. polvorn.

Basically it is a kind of mante-

cado, oval shaped, and usually

covered with powdered sugar.

roscn de reyes. king cake.

On January 6, it is a tradition

to eat a king cake with a small

CHRISTMAS RECIPES

FROM TENERIFE .

ALMOND NOUGAT, POLVO-

RONES, BATATA SWEET

TROUT OR ANGEL'S HAIR

ONE AND MERENGUE CAKE

turrn. Nougat candy, usually

made with honey, sugar, egg

white and almonds, and

shaped into rectangular tab-

lets. mantecado. Traditional

Spanish Christmas sweet

made mainly with lard, flour

and sugar. Other common

trinket hidden inside. The

person who finds it will have a

lucky year. mazapn. marzi-

pan. chocolate. chocolate.

champn. champagne.

cava. Another kind of spar-

kling wine, like champagne,

Christmas Eve in Poland

SPANISH CHRISTMAS FOOD

Prva gimnazija, Maribor, Slovenia

This is how our

school looks like in

December.

We call it the OldBeautyand in

December it's even

magical.

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The typical Christmas Evepre-dinner custom of thebreaking and sharing of aspecial rice wafer andoffering good wishes for the

year ahead

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mas

Pudding

Do you know what ElGordo is ?It is a Massive Christmaslottery in Spain which

takes place on 22ndDecember, almosteveryone buys a ticket.The results are sung bySan Ildefonso Schoolstudents as the balls comeout of the machine.

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Spanish Christmas tradi-

tion is the decorations, like

the street Christmas lights

and, of course, the Nativity

Scenes. A Nativity Scene is adepiction of the birth of Jesus,

generally with small figures. It

depicts at least the Child Jesus

in the crib, the Virgin Mary

and St. Joseph, but there are

also a lot of other figures,

such as shepherds, sheeps,

villagers, the Three Wise Men

on camels, etc.

Christmas customs in Slove-nia Christmas is very popu-

lar holiday in Slovenia, like

everywhere in the world

which is celebrated in family

circle. But it's not as popular

as New Year's Eve. It is a

tradition that we wait forChristmas Eve so that four

Sundays before Christmas we

lighten up candles on advent

wreath.

People send Christmas cards

and sing Christmas carols. We

decorate our Christmas tree

and bake Christmas cookies.

There is a pleasant atmos-

phere in our homes. It smells

of good food, candies, and

oranges. Our mothers or

grandmothers bake traditional

cake called potica (nut rolls)

or fruit bread. Under the

Christmas tree there are a

Christmas crib and gifts forgood children.

On Christmas Eve people go

to midnight mass. In our fam-

ily it is a tradition that we go

to church on foot with

torches and before that we

have traditional Christmas

dinner.

Christmas is one of those

holidays when we can spend

our time with relatives and

people who are very close to

us.

More Christmas Traditions

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EVERY YEAR ONTHE CHRISTMAS'

EVE. THE

SYNPHONYORCHESTRA OF

TENERIFEPERFOMS TO ALL

PEOPLE. YOU HAVETHE CHANCE TO

LISTEN TOCLASSICAL MUSIC

WITHOUT PAYINGFOR IT AT ALL.

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Christmas Eve in PolandMateusz Czernek

For me Christmas is the most beautiful time during the entire year. Whenthe family meets in its entirety at the same table doing amazing atmospherein August. This is a beautiful feeling. Christmas are successful in this way when thewindows for our home is cold and a lot of snow. I think that each ofus in their homes has its own habits, which remain

to this day.

Throughout the year, we are waiting for the only date:The twenty fourth of December!. This is such a period in life wheneveryone has a wonderful mood to feast and meetings with family. On this day, they met inmy house is a lot of people who do dishes on Christmas night. And he is embellished table andplaced him on board. Of course, no one can run into choink gifts because it would be without

gifts for the holidays and Christmas trees.

A Christmas tree in my house always looks wonderful. At the center of the table stands a Christ-mas candle next to it on the plate are 'opatki' which will be divided already evening. It can not runout of hay into a beautiful white cloth-table as tradition requires tries.Every year, when the mo-ment nastaje already on the table must be 12 dishes including min.: 'Barszcz', 'carp', 'herring',

'pierogi with cabbage', 'noodles with poppy'.

Once all sit at table, we are waiting only for one beautiful star in the sky that will give us the signalthat you can already start Christmas Eve. Everyone takes the hand and each wafer with each be-gins to share it or tell themselves desired. After the demands of children or me, my sister, and my

cousins, lets get to unpack gifts.

Then comes the moment on trying each of the holiday dishes to taste.The biggest gourmand in myfamily are: Dad, uncle and grandfather. Then, are beautiful carols that always starts my grand-mother. After a wonderful evening everyone goes to their homes but only for a moment. Why?Because at 12 at night my whole family goes to church for midnight mass.With midnight mass

returned to the house and everyone goes with a smile on your face, and each has a good humor.

That, focus Wigilie although each end holidays do not end with the past times. Then there's still 1day festivities, followed by 2 days of holidays. In the following days is a Christmas carol orpastoral priest comes to each of the houses and we pray. I think that the

Christmas holidays are the most beautiful in the whole year.

MERRYCHRISTMASoneandall!

dinner. At midnight, it is tradi-

tional to eat twelve grapes,

one on each chime of the

clock (well, as you can imag-

ine, not everyone succeeds in

doing that). Next, everybody

drinks a toast, with cham-

pagne or cava, and the partygoes on as much as we can

take, specially young people.

Epiphany. Spanish children

do not address their letters to

Santa Claus, but to the Three

Wise Men. On January 5, big

parades are organized in

which the Three Men partici-

pate in person, even though

they have a lot of work to do

that night.El Gordo. Massive Christmas

lottery which takes place on

22nd December, almost eve-

Other Christmas Eve. The

night before Christmas, it is

customary to organize family

reunions, in order to have a

dinner and celebrate together.

A Midnight Mass called Misa

del Gallo (Roosters Mass) is

also celebrated to commemo-rate the birth of Jesus.

Da de los Santos Inocen-

tes (Innocent Saints Day). On

December 28, we commemo-

rate the Biblical Herods

slaughter of the innocents. On

this day, all kinds of hoaxes

and jokes (called inocentadas)

are committed on friends and

relatives. In this sense, it is the

equivalent of the April FoolsDay.

New Years Eve. This day is

also celebrated with a family

ryone buys a ticket.

Spanish Christmas Traditions

Organization

The Christmas Market

in Oberhausen,

Germany

Veselboi! FroheWeih

nachten!

So this is Xmas

and what have you done,

another year over

and a new one justbegun.

And so this is xmas

I hope you have fun

the near and the dear

one

the old and the young.

A VERY MERRY XMAS

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

LETS HOPE ITS A GOOD

ONE

WITHOUT ANY FEAR

John Lennon

Wesolychwiat!

FelizNavidad!