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Published: April 25th 2006
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The Big Feast!
Easter Sunday Breakfast at Monar Easter weekend in Poland is Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter sunday and Easter Monday.
- Good Friday attended mass at the local church. It was really packed and cold but the service was nice. Though I missed the sung gospel like in India. I also helped with the decorations. Remember I mentioned about cutting the easter shrubs from the forest? well same stuff was used. I decorated the drawing room. and made like an arch over the doorwaty. everyone was impressed and really liked it. also it made me happy. Lot of pain is taken to decorate for Eater its like cristmas. will put picteures on the blog when I get back home.
- Saturday is a big day coz preperations are made for the big Easter Sunday breakfast. I totally involved myself with everything. I helped cook the food. it was a lot of fun. though to my dismay everything was egg and pork. Though it was fun to help and everything loked and smelled good. I also helped paint hard boiled eggs. Which I tell you is an art,. I tried painting them but they either keep slipping or the paint smudged or didn't catch. after 3
YUM YUM YUM
Check out the food. I helped cut and decorate the ham and also stuff the eggs- You see it in the picture failed attempts I gave up and went back to the kiitchen. I insisted I sleep on at 12:00 am. I was the last to go to bed. It was too funny when the tgerapist who doesn't speak English comes to me and says ' Naleenee- Go sleep'
- Easter Sunday was amazing. got up and got dressed and the whole of Monar, all the paitient and therpatists came. there is a long table arranged in the dining room. and there was ham, and different cakes, mushroom, stuffed heggs, eggs and sausage soup,salad. soo much. I don't eat eg but stil made it a point to try everything. My family called in the moring and was so happy. The breakfast is something they would love!!
Then in the evening I wanted to go to church and I wa told that there was a wedidng of an ex-patienrt and I would be nice to go see it and I could go for the mass then. 2 of the Monar boys took Onur and me. However with the language problem, non-church going people, when we got to the church the couple wree just coming out. I was soo upset coz there would
Easter Eggs
Decorated Easter egg be no masses anywhere else. The boys were feeling soo bad. I was told theat eatser monday was a bigger day. so I tried to cheer up and agreed i would go to church tomorrow.
- continuation of Sunday's events. now there are 3 cities- Gadansk, Gydinia and Sopot. they lie in a row by the cost. so they are beautiful towns. Before the wedding we went to Gydinia which is by the sea has these ship musueams and beaches It was really cold and windy and I was wearing a wraop around skirt that kept flying about and I had to walk holding it. However people were really fascinated with it coz it had indian print and was blue. everyone kepy looking at it. including girls also I looked like the foreigner and the 3 boys I were with thought all the girls were looking at them. so they felt very happy with themsevleves. haha!! After the wedding they took us to Sopot. This place had a lovely chruch and it basicallya tourist town cause it has something called a 'MOLLO' that is like a long man made promenade that leads out to the sea. The walk and
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Me helping to clean up after the breakfast view is trully stunning. but again it wqs cold and that blasted skirt!!! I plan to go again in appropriate cothes and nice weather. did I mewntion not only was it cold but started raining also!!! Yeah!! This also famous for its night clubs.
- On monday I contacted a friend of a priest I know(Though Uncle Juvy) and she was really sweet and when I told her I wanted tro got o church she came and picked me up and took me for mass in the old town at this beautiful church of St.Nicholas. the mass was in polish but lovely. and there was a choir of 5 singing hymns in acapella. the sound was truly amzing!! I loved the mass and am very grately to Eva for taking me. after that she took me to her home where we had a light tea with her husbad, they are both doctors. and her husband is a very interesting man and I was having a long talk with him on status of poor and social work and situation in Poland but sadly it had to be cut short coz her son came to take me back to Monar. but
Polish Wedding
Me wishing the bridal couple it was very nice to spend time with them and I hope to see them again soon.
- Came back to Monar and thus ended Easter weekend. I missed spending it with my family but for now Monar is like my family and I had a lovely time sharing Polish traditions with them.
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