Cooking Day

Today it is a big day for the class. It is the Cooking at School Day!!!
The students have brought recipes from their mothers. All kinds of food: Meat, chicken, salads, pies, biscuits...
Then they have voted and chosen what they would like to eat from all those recipes.
And today we will be divided in 9 groups to prepair 9 different dishes.
We will have crepes, chicken with mustard, greek salad, small cheese pies, brigadeiro (brasilian traditional chocolate balls - recipe from a brasilian mother), biscuits with chocolate pieces, cheese cake, chocolate torso, banana with chocolate.
Mmmmm, yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

With Konstantina getting ready

Cutting the chicken with Vice Headmaster Mr Yiannis

Vice Headmaster Mr Yiannis and trainee teacher Mr Nikos

Marinating the chicken

Preparing the chocolate torso

Margarita, Theodora and Marina making brigadeiro

With Eleftheria helping Dimitris with the crepes

Dimitris is a very good cooker

Time to EAT!!!!

Greek Salad

Banana with chocolate

Almost ready to serve

Mrs Maria is cutting the cheese cake!

Teachers are ready to serve us

Come on, we are waiting!!!

Still waiting...

I think i need to go near the food! Theodora is with me

The sweets are DELICIOUS!!!

Marina and Vayia enjoy the food! YES, ME TOO!!!

Carnival in school

A few days later it was time for the Carnival party at school!
The party was in the school yard with lots of music, costumes, serpentines.
The students and some teachers dressed with funny costumes were singing and dancing.

Here we are just before wear our costumes

 And now... Let's PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

With the Vice Headmaster Mr Yiannis

Carnival in Greece - Gaitanaki

When i arrived in Greece it was Carnival time!
I had the chance to attend a very nice tarditional dance they call "Gaitanaki". It is a pole with colorful ribbons that held in the center of the dance. The male and female dancers alternately holding the ribbons dancing in the opposite direction knitting ribbons. Then, changing the direction of dance loosened.