On holy week I helped my mum and dad to clean the house.

On Tuesday I went to the shops and I bought newer shoes and clothes.

On Wednesday we went to my father's village at Paphos and see my aunts, uncles and cousins. We had a very good time together.

On Thursday we dyed many eggs red as traditional.

On Friday we made flaounes with my grandmother and my mum. We had also made koulouria. After that we went to the church and went around the streets with Epitafios 

On Saturday we went to the church early in the morning to see the black clothes falling down from the pictures when Christ resurrected. At 11 p.m we wore our new clothes and we went to the church. At midnight I celebrated with my family Christ's resurrection. A few minutes later many kids started playing with their sparkles, we burned Judas and we lit our Easter candles.

In the end we went to my grandmother's house and we eaten egg and lemon soup, flaounes and we cracked red-dyed eggs. Of course I won!!

Christos Hadjimiltis

Throughout the duration of Lent young and old, fast and even the oil and go to Church.
They go to churches, lit the candles and censes. For each passing week say: "go one Kalogria" until he reaches the Holy Week, so they say: "go and Reverend."
On Holy Week begin preparations for Ea  ster. They prepare your home and make eftazyma buns and colic. On Holy Thursday dye red eggs. On Holy Friday, after the procession of the Epitaph, returning to church and clubbing saying various chants and the "Lament of the Virgin Mary". On Easter Sunday, the traditional feast they make cribs and children, one to one turn, sit and sing. On Easter Monday, all getting ready for tour, known as "cooking."
The food of the day is "giaprakia" from the new grape leaves and rice pudding from newborn goats.The games are "jumping rope", "three and strap mother", "shoe paliopapoutso ', the' insults ', the' sklavakia" and many others.On Easter Tuesday, the "Niotrito" turning their icons in all the houses. Those who worship, give money and various foods.   

In Easter I'm at gandparents house beacouse my parents were in London for one week.We shopping every day.It was very good.HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!

In  the Easter I worked in my grandpa΄s bakery.After the worked I made biscuits.Then we painted the eggs.We went the church.The other weekend we went to the Saint Napa and I played mini golf.In my rest time I saw TV!!!

MICHALIS  CHARILAOO    

Easter in France

Celebrating Easter in France is very much a part of the French culture, and many of the French Easter traditions directly relate back to the fact that much of the country (about ninety percent) considers itself Roman-Catholic. Whether they are truly practicing Roman Catholics or not, Easter is a major holiday celebrated by all.

The Ringing of the Bells

Churches, with their soaring architecture and revered history, are an intrinsic part of the French culture. It makes sense then, that these very same churches are central to Easter celebrations. The tradition begins on Maundy Thursday, before Good Friday. On this day, all the bells in France remain still and silent in remembrance of Jesus' passing.

As one might imagine, this is quite a somber remembrance, and one that's made all the more acute because the church bells typically ring out joyously at different times of the day. To ease the discomfort or any fears of the children, parents tell them that all the church bells have flown off to Rome to visit the Pope.

Luckily, this silence is fairly short lived; when Easter morning dawns, the bells ring out once more to rejoice in Jesus' resurrection. Much of the French community takes joy in this, fanning out into the streets, shouting boisterous greetings to neighbors, and giving warm hugs and kisses to those they know. You may hear all sorts of Easter holiday greetings, however, the French say "Joyeuses Pâques!"

Easter Games

While it's true that Easter is a joy for both young and old alike, it's the children in particular who seem to have the most fun. It's in this spirit that French children delight in Easter games. One such game involves rolling raw eggs down a gentle slope. The egg that makes it down the slop, without breaking, is declared the victor. Many believe that this game symbolizes the stone that rolled away from Jesus' tomb when it was discovered that he had risen.

The second game involves tossing uncooked eggs into the air. The first child to drop and break his egg is the loser, who must then give up some of his candy to another child. However, in some versions of this game, there is no such penalty.

On Holy Week i helped my mom cleaned the house.After that webought new clothes.On Wednesday we made flaounes.

On Good Friday we went to the church.People  went to the church and decorated Epitafios.

On Easter Saturday people celebrated Christ's resurrection at midnight. Then went home and eat  red  dyed eggs,soup and flaounes.

On Easter Sunday i went with my family at my mum's village,we went to my aunt's house.We eat lamb,koupepia,pasta,potatoe and other.At the afternoon we went to see the traditional games.    

The Holy Week is a great and wonderful week to spend time with your family. 

On Holy Monday i passed great time with my mom to clean my house. My sister and i went shopping to buy new clothes.
Everyone in the family helped to make flaounas, bread and cookies.
Good Friday my family went church and decorated epitaph with colourful flowers

I like paint eggs and we did this on  Easter Saturday. On the Easter Saturday we stayed home and we were waiting for the resurrection.
When the midnight arrived i went with my family to the church to light our candles from holy light and say Christ has arisen.

As always after the church we went home and we ate egg and lemon soup.
And at the end cracked the red eggs.

These were my Easter Holidays!!!!                           

ATHINA 

This year easter was amazing, just shut the schools. I went to my village. In my village we built and toasted with my grandmother flaounes. Saturday night around 11 o'clock we heard the church bells that rang joyously. So we figure it was time to go to church. Everybody grab the lamp and we went to church walking. After the church, everybody when back home to eat chicken soup and then we went to bed.. The next day at launch, everybody crack eggs.None of my family in not    defeated in crack the egg.  

      I LIKE EASTER HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!

       We are on holidays, the schools are still close we just celebrated Easter.

            I had beautiful Easter holiday. On Good Friday first of all I helped my mother and we cleaned our house and then we dyed red eggs. When we finished, I went to the church with my friends. There we decorated Epitafio with beautiful colourful flowers. After that I wore my new clothes and I went back to the church with my family when Epitafios was carried around the streets. We were lucky because Epitafios was carried out of my granny’s house.

            On Easter Saturday my grannies baked cheese pies called flaounes. At the church’s bells started ringing at 11p.m. and I wore my new clothes again. My parents, me and my brother we went to church to celebrate Christ’s resurrection at midnight. In church outside was big bonfire where Judas burned lots of children used dangerous sparkles and fireworks. At the midnight we lit our Easter candles and we took it home.

            There my family sat on the table where we first cracked red dyed eggs, my aunt won. Then we had our lemon soup and flaounes was a beautiful night.

            I enjoyed a lot Easter Saturday.

Christiana Kyriakou