eTwinning Special Christmas Edition MERRY

19th December

Special Christmas Issue

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The end of a long term
Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule
Oberhausen
The Christmas holiday finally arrived.
IES MARINA CEBRIÁN, Here’s what the last days are like:
CALLE CANDELARIA, Nº 1
San Cristóbal de la Laguna POLAND

Zespól Szkól Gimnazjum i

We decorate Christmas trees at our school. There is
Szkola Podstawowa nr 13 a big one in the corridor and smaller ones in the class-
rooms. All the classrooms are beautifully decorated
Royal Grammar School, with baubles, ribbons, angels, Christmas cards and
High Wycombe:
decorations. Students belonging to one class have a
class meeting with their teacher. They share a wafer, [Above —putting up the tree
Prva gimnazija, Maribor:
tell wishes to one another and then sing carols. They in the library]
also have a mela. They eat a traditional Polish dish or Meanwhile in England ..... on the
just taste some cake. There is a special performance at last day of term we always have
our school gym every year. Students present Christ- just 4 lessons in the morning and
mas traditions, tell then the reports are given out. School
poem and sing car- finishes at 1pm instead of 3.40.
ols. The atmos- In the last week we sing Christmas
phere in the last carols in assembly instead of the usual
day before the hymn. Pupils start giving out
Christmas break is Christmas cards and some lucky
at the Polish school special. teachers get a present.

Xmas in Maribor, Slovenia

Christmas Tree
decorations in the
Canary Islands are
made of recycled CDs
There is a tradition that Here's a photo of a deco- rated classroom.
we decorate our class-
We also have a game in our
rooms and on the last
class and the game is called
day before holidays the
The Secret Friend. Each gets
winning classroom is chosen.
a name of a school friend
Unfortunately our class has-
and has to surprise him or
n't won yet. Some classes
her with small tokens of
even prepare a programme
appreciation
inspired by a Christmas
spirit for the jury.
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Christmas Christmas Eve in Poland
Do you know what El
Gordo is ?
It is a Massive Christmas
lottery in Spain which
takes place on 22nd
December, almost
everyone buys a ticket.
The results are sung by
San Ildefonso School
students as the balls come
out of the machine.
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 .
It’s be fish carp. It’s 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 and
singing 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
żurek, 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
The typical Christmas Eve
pre-dinner custom of the
breaking and sharing of a
special rice wafer and
offering good wishes for the
year ahead
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.

Prva gimnazija, Maribor, Slovenia

s This is how our
lish C hristma
Eng school looks like in
g
Puddin December.
We call it the Old
Beauty and in
December it's even
magical.

SPANISH CHRISTMAS FOOD

CHRISTMAS RECIPES
FROM TENERIFE .
ALMOND NOUGAT, POLVO-
RONES, BATATA SWEET
TROUT OR ANGEL'S HAIR
ONE AND MERENGUE CAKE
ingredients include cinnamon
and sesame seeds. polvorón.
Basically it is a kind of mante-
cado, oval shaped, and usually
covered with powdered sugar.
trinket hidden inside. The
person who finds it will have a
lucky year. mazapán. marzi-
pan. chocolate. chocolate.
champán. champagne.

turrón. 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 roscón de reyes. king cake.
On January 6, it is a tradition cava. Another kind of spar-
and sugar. Other common
Page 2 to eat a king cake with a small kling wine, like champagne,

More Christmas Traditions
Spanish Christmas tradi-
tion is the decorations, like
the street Christmas lights
and, of course, the Nativity
Scenes. A Nativity Scene is a
depiction 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 for
Christmas 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
Special Christmas
Issue
grandmothers bake traditional
cake called “potica” (nut rolls)
or fruit bread. Under the
Christmas tree there are a
Christmas crib and gifts for
good 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
Slovenian Christmas cake
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.

Multi-Lingual Christmas
EVERY YEAR ON
THE CHRISTMAS'
EVE. THE
SYNPHONY
ORCHESTRA OF
TENERIFE
PERFOMS TO ALL
PEOPLE. YOU HAVE
THE CHANCE TO
LISTEN TO
CLASSICAL MUSIC
WITHOUT PAYING
FOR IT AT ALL.

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 Christmas Eve in Poland—Mateusz Czernek

Organization For me Christmas is the most beautiful time during the entire year. When
the family meets in its entirety at the same table doing amazing atmosphere
in August. This is a beautiful feeling. Christmas are successful in this way when the
windows for our home is cold and a lot of snow. I think that each of

ME
us in their homes has its own habits, which remain
Ś wia t !
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Wesolyc
CHR RRY
to this day.
I
one STMAS Throughout the year, we are waiting for the only date:
and The twenty fourth of December!. This is such a period in life when
all ! everyone has a wonderful mood to feast and meetings with family. On this day, they met in
my house is a lot of people who do dishes on Christmas night. And he is embellished table and
placed him on board. Of course, no one can run into choinką 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 'opłatki' which will be divided already evening. It can not run
So this is Xmas out 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',
and what have you done,
'pierogi with cabbage', 'noodles with poppy'.
another year over
and a new one just Once all sit at table, we are waiting only for one beautiful star in the sky that will give us the signal
that you can already start Christmas Eve. Everyone takes the hand and each wafer with each be-
begun.
gins to share it or tell themselves desired. After the demands of children or me, my sister, and my
And so this is xmas cousins, lets get to unpack gifts.
I hope you have fun
Then comes the moment on trying each of the holiday dishes to taste.The biggest gourmand in my
the near and the dear family are: Dad, uncle and grandfather. Then, are beautiful carols that always starts my grand-
one 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
the old and the young.
returned to the house and everyone goes with a smile on your face, and each has a good humor.
A VERY MERRY XMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR That, focus Wigilie although each end holidays do not end with the past times. Then there's still 1
LET´S HOPE IT´S A GOOD
day festivities, followed by 2 days of holidays. In the following days is a Christmas carol or
pastoral priest comes to each of the houses and we pray. I think that the
ONE
Christmas holidays are the most beautiful in the whole year. Feliz N
WITHOUT ANY FEAR
avidad
John Lennon !
Spanish Christmas Traditions
Other Christmas Eve. The dinner. At midnight, it is tradi-
night before Christmas, it is tional to eat twelve grapes,
customary to organize family one on each chime of the
reunions, in order to have a clock (well, as you can imag-
dinner and celebrate together. ine, not everyone succeeds in
A Midnight Mass called Misa doing that). Next, everybody
del Gallo (Rooster’s Mass) is drinks a toast, with cham-
also celebrated to commemo- pagne or cava, and the party
rate the birth of Jesus. goes on as much as we can
take, specially young people.
Día de los Santos Inocen-
tes (Innocent Saints’ Day). On Epiphany. Spanish children
December 28, we commemo- do not address their letters to The Christmas Market
rate the Biblical Herod’s Santa Claus, but to the Three in Oberhausen,
slaughter of the innocents. On Wise Men. On January 5, big Germany
this day, all kinds of hoaxes parades are organized in
and jokes (called inocentadas) which the Three Men partici- ryone buys a ticket.
Vesel are committed on friends and pate in person, even though
b ožič relatives. In this sense, it is the they have a lot of work to do
! equivalent of the April Fools’ that night.
Frohe
ten !
Day.
El Gordo. Massive Christmas
ei hnach
New Year’s Eve. This day is lottery which takes place on W
also celebrated with a family 22nd December, almost eve-