DAY 19: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RELIGION? OR WHAT DO YOU THINK OF POLITICS

I will talk about religion!!
I think religion is important if you believe in a faith!! I am a Christian but I don't go church every Sunday, I go a few times a year but I know how important it is like the traditions are implemented in my family and I learned a lot in the RE lessons in school that I grow up with.  I didn't just learn about Christianity, I learnt about Buddhism, Islam, Judaism etc etc.  This is important because I am now familiar with these faiths and now the beliefs put in.  In Year 9-11, I specialised in Christianity and Islam and learnt about everything from view on marriage to views on abortion and drugs which I found really interesting because I got to see new opinions.
I think all children should learn about these faiths! Some parents may not allow their child to learn about religion which is ok because it is their beliefs and everyone is allowed their own choice, especially when it comes to their child. But when the children do learn about religion, they should be fun lesssons and try to celebrate all faith traditions as it will be equal among the students.

That is what I think about religion :)

GREEK EASTER

So I don't know if you all know but I'm Greek!!!!!

I have Easter a week after English Easter and we have different traditions ;)
Think I'll let you know a few of our traditions:

Church all week (before the weekend) and on the Friday and Saturday something called the  Ebitaphio (there is no word in English- asked my Mum already) and is a symbolic bier of Christ!! I don't go through week of Fri/Sat night- very lazy. But I do go on Saturdays in the mornings..... I wake up at 6am to be leave the house at 7!! This year it was torture as I was out the night before but I managed to do it!! :D
Another tradition is.. get ready.. no meat or dairy for 40 days!!!! I don't do that either as I can't live without it but my parents do it for a week and so does my sis!
 Who lives without this????

A traditional food which is made at Easter is called Flaounes and this is what it looks like:
 I don't really like them,  but other do!
They are made from easter cheese and made on Holy Thursday (These are made for after fasting is up)

On the Sat night we go to church and we celebrate Jesus' resurrection and we have soup after!! (I know very random... but us Greeks are :D)


On the Sundayy all we do is eat eat eat!!!!!! Especially those people who haven't eaten meat/dairy after 40 days!!

This is what a Ebitaphio looks like just incase you were wondering!!!