Carnival in Belgium

The famous carnival in Belgium takes place in Binche.
Here are "Les gilles de Binche". On their hat, there are ostrich's feather. So their hats are very heavy.

Carnival at the village

Carnival in our village takes place during two days. On saturday evening, children and parents went dressed up. Children who are more ten years old may become the carnival prince of the year. This year, it's Alexis, a pupil of our school who was appointed as the prince. So he recieved "the village's keys".

Turpange : Carnival at school

On wednesday afternoon, all the pupils went to school dressed up. We had a party too. We presented sketches and dances that we had prepared. And then we ate waffles all together . In fact, actually, it should be doughnuts.

Paleo Faliro: Clean Monday (The First Day of Lent)

On Monday 6th March we didn't have school because it was Clean Monday. Clean Monday is the first day of Lent.
On this day we eat shrimps, mussels, oktapus, kalamari fruit and vegetables and a special kind of flat bread made out without yeast, called Lagana.
Tradition says that on this day the housewives started the spring cleaning of their houses in order to be clean for Easter so they didn't have time to make the regular bread they were doing the rest of the year.
We also fly kites on this day.

Paleo Faliro: Carnival

Last weekend we celebrated Carnival (Apokries in Greek).

On Friday 4 March we did not have classes.

We went to school dressed up and we had a party.

We had great fun.

Turpange : the snow

Today we come back after one week in Carnival's holiday.
What a pleasure to play together in the snow!

Paleo Faliro: Our Class

This is our class. We are eighteen students in our class. Ten boys and eight girls