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Dear Evi,
The Sabbath of Lazarus we make special buns called lazarakis which have the shape of a man. Also, we sing the lazarikas, which are special carols for the day. The lazarus is a very large cross, wich is decorated with flowers by young people. In the end decorated Lazarus is placed in the village square.

Happy Easter!
Love, Ioanna

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Dear Max and Eric,
One of our favourite holidays is Easter!!
On Holy Thursday  we dye red eggs that sympolize Jesus Christ's blood.We decorate the red eggs and put them in a basket until Easter.Then after resurrection we break them and eat them. The person that broke most people's egg wins!!

Happy Easter!

Dimitra and Mary.

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Dear Ioanna,

Greek children prepare special Lenten breads called ‘Lazarakia’ (Little Lazarus buns). They are sweet, spicy small breads, shaped like boys with crossed arms on their chest, sort of wrapped in burial clothing. If you would like to make Lazaeaki, follow this recipe by the famous Greek chef, Akis Petretzikis!

Happy Easter, Evi

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Dear Kori and Diego,
In Greece there are a lots of Easter customs!
One of them is lambades.Every godfather or godmother gets lambada and gifts for god children.After we go to the church and we take holly light.Happy Easter everyone!!!
From Marianna and Roumbini!

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Dear Bernat,
Every Easter my godmother and my godfather comes and give me one butty candle for saturday night and Easter choco egg. Alwyays in saturday night we go to the church to watch the serviece of the Resurrection. After the serviece of  Resurrection we  give  wishes to each other and we say Christ risen !!!!!!!!!

Happy Easter !!!!!!!
Christina

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Dear Joshua and Alejandro,
Forty days is the fasting period before easter. We take a piece of paper and draw a woman as a nun. Her name is Mrs. Lent and she is a calendar that counts the weeks left until Easter. Evey Saturday we cut a leg to count the weeks left. She has 7 legs for the 7 weeks of Lent.

Happy Easter,
Xenia and Dimitra

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Dear Pol and David,
After we return to ourhomes and the families sit together at the table to have the festive dinner! We always start with cracking the red eggs with each other, which symbolizes the risen Christ's blood. Everyone selects one egg, carefully choosing the one that seems the strogest. Then the egg cracking beggins! One cracks their chosen egg on top of another's chosen eggs, saying '' Christos Anesti'' (meaning ''Christ has risen'').
Helen and Aria

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Dear Arlette,
Once at the Easter table, Greeks will crack brilliant red-dyed eggs with their family and friends.

The eggs are dyed red on Holy Thursday, a custom which goes back to the early Christians and symbolizes the sacrificial blood of Christ.
First you boil the eggs for around half an hour. Then you let them cool and after that you put them in red food colored water for 5 minutes. When they are dyed, you polish them with oil.

Later Greek Orthodox traditions say that the eggs are dyed red on Holy Thursday in commemoration of the Last Supper.

The cracking of the red eggs has its own symbolism as well. The hard shell of the egg symbolizes the sealed tomb of Christ, while the cracking means that the tomb has been broken and that Christ has been resurrected from the dead.

Happy Easter, Alex

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Dear Adria,
One popular sweet is a tsoyreki. Tsoureki is type of soft and puffy sweet bread or brioche that was originally made only during Easter time. The Easter tsoureki is particularly special though because it is braided with three different pieces of dough.
Rafael

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Dear Maria and Aitana

On The Easter Sunday morning we are slow-roasting the  delicious lamb. We are making Greek Tzatziki and magiritsa soup to eat. When the whole family gathers we playthe egg-cracking competition. The person with the strongest egg is said to have luck with him for the rest of the year!!.

Stefanos and John

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Dear Nuria and Pilar,
In Easter the Eggs are red but we prefer the chocolate Eggs.The chocolate Eggs are tasty.Also they have a surprise inside.The chocolate Eggs are favoured from the children.

George and Nick
Happy Easter!!

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Dear Guillem,
At Holy Saturday another great traditon on Resurrection night in Greece is the firework displays. At the stroke of midnight, when the priest first declares "Christ is Risen!" the church bells ring joyfully while the sky is lit up with glittering, deafening fierworks. But you need to be careful.

HARRY EASTER!

Helen G.

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Dear Daniella,
On Saturday morning, the first Resurrection takes place at the chrurch. First of all the bells ring happily and the people sing. Also a pigeon is released to fly inside the temple. The priests throw bay leaves and flowers petals from the ceiling. After that the believers come back home and they wait to go again to the chrurch to watch service of the Ressurrection at midnight.
Happy Easter!

Vaggelis

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DEAR JUDIT,
One of my favourite holidays is Easter. After the Anastasi or on Easter Sunday, families gather at their dinner table and do the “tsougrisma” of the eggs, a fun game for children and adults. Everyone picks an egg and attempts to crack other people’s eggs by hitting one egg on top of another. Whoever gets their egg cracked loses the game, while the person with no cracks on their egg, wins and is said to receive good luck all year round

JOHN

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Dear Vega,
Nothing screams Greek Easter more than skewered lamb.

Throughout the nation, lambs are roasted on a spit or in the oven, as families gather together, eat, drink, sing and dance to traditional Greek music.

The choice of the lamb, a pure and innocent animal, is supposed to represent Christ, the Holy Lamb of God, while people’s celebrations on Easter Sunday symbolise the happiness that follows the Resurrection, love, faith and family.

From Konstantina!

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Dear Brian,
The Toureki is a soft and a puffy sweet bread.It was made during Easter and its popular in Greece. It's also really tasty! All bakaries make difrent shapes of them. It's special because it is braided in three pieces of dough. And it represent the Holy Trinity and a red egg placed in the middle.

From Nefeli!<3

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Dear Daniela and Sergi,
Our favourite custom is called Botides and takes place in Corfu. On Resurrection Saturday, at exactly 11 am, at the center of Corfu’s Chora, people throw huge ceramic pots from their balconies, smashing them below with great noise and laughter. This is done to banish evil spirits and death.

Love from Lampros and Christina

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Dear Andreu and Bryan,
One of our favourite holidays in Easter is Resurrection. On Holy Saturday we go to church with our candles given to us from our godmother. Then when the bells ring, we take our candles to light them with the Holy Light. In addition this moment people outside throw colorful fireworks.
With love
Electra, Myrto

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Dear Emma and Gael,
at Easter the whole family gathers and we eat together. We woke up early on the Easter Sunday morning to roast the lamb. Usually dad prepares the fire and mum lays the table.
The lamb must be slowly roasted in order to be delicious. We eat Greek tzatziki and feta, magiritsa soup and we drink coca cola and beers while watching the lamb cook. Do you know what is magiritsa soup?
When we are on the table, we have the egg-cracking competition and we wish Happy Easter "Kalo Paska" and Christ Risen "Christos Anesti".

With love,
George V. and Giannis G.

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Dear Gerard,
Here in Greece we have lots of Easter Customs! One of them is that our Godfather brings us a long candle called Lambada. He also brings us a chocolate egg or a chocolate bunny.
From Danai!

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Dear Aitor and dear Edurne,

In Easter the Eggs are decorated  with aluminium foil. The Cocolate Eggs bring our God Father with a gift like: money , a toy and a candle. At the resurrection we light the candle and go to the church.

Kosmas and Ioli

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Dear Mateo,
One of my favourite Easter trandition is the Red Egg Cracking competition. On Holy Thursday we dye red eggs, wich symbolise Christ's blood. We decorate them, usually in stickers, and we put them in a basket. On Easter Sunday there is a competition where we crack eggs with each other. The one with the strongest egg, has luck for the rest of the year!!!
What is your favourite Easter trandition?
Penny.

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Dear Danae and Julia.
After the Anastasi or on Easter Sunday, families gather at their dinner table and do the “tsougrisma” of the eggs, a fun game for children . Everyone picks an egg and attempts to crack other people’s eggs by hitting one egg on top of another. Whoever gets their egg cracked loses the game, while the person with no cracks on their egg, wins and is said to receive good luck all year round.
Jim and Peter and

Happy Easter!!!

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Dear Nόa,
One of my favourite holidays is Easter. My favourite tradition is the Easter Baking Cookies. We help our parents and grandparents to bake them. We bake the cookies in the shape of braids or snails. We make sweets such as tsoureki and other traditional baked pastries. How was your holiday?

Love, Katie

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Dear Laia,
At Easter all the days are official break and families enjoy the holidays with their relatives. there a lot of traditions for example:Baking Tsoureki,Dying Red Eggs,Church Bells,Flags,Tomb of Jesus,Midnight Church Service,Candles Red Egg Cracking,Eating Magiritsa and Roasting the Lamb
ANGEL

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Dear Martina ,
The Easter Sunday is another big day to celebrate. Families gather again before noon to roast the lamb on a spit and then enjoy a long lunch with lots of meat, potatoes, salads and drinks.

GEORGE

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Dear friends,

One of my favourite holidays is Easter. The "light of Pyrgos," which takes place in Santorini, is my favorite Easter custom.  On Holy Friday, people place tin cans all around the balconies and the streets of the villages. In the evening, we light up the tin cans with fire, making the entire village bright, so that the people who follow the Epitaph can see in the dark.
What is your favourite Easter custom in Spain?

Happy Easter! Mr. Stavros

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On the morning of Holy Friday, women and children go to church and decorate the Epitaph.

Ms. Vicky

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