Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Easter

Every year we celebrate Easter. Easter represents the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This is how we prepare for Christmas : We clean our houses, we paint the eggs and we prepare traditional food. On Easter day, we go to the church, we crack red eggs and we say “Cristos a inviat!” which means “Christ is risen!” and we answer ”Adevarat a-nviat!” “Indeed He is risen!”. And let’s not forget the Easter Bunny which brings us presents! All the children love him!

EGG DECORATION
A very interesting Easter tradition is the egg decoration.
How to do it :
Wash the egg shell
Wipe the egg with vinegar
Make one or two small holes with a needle and take out the interior of the egg (yolk and white)
Draw a model using  a “condei” (a stick with a metal pointed end) dipped into hot wax.
Introduce the egg into yellow paint (the drawing will remain white)
After it is dried, draw more models then dip the egg into red paint
Dry it again, draw more models and dip it this time into black paint
Put the egg on a radiator and melt the wax
The decorations (the drawings) will remain white, while the egg will have different colours.

 
The decorations are very different and have different meanings. Every year we decorate eggs with our Religion teacher. We even participate to contests!

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