Countries around Europe - October 2013
Interviews with important people - December 2013
Contest (In Cooperation with the British Council) "Say No To Bulying" - November 2013
Interviews with important people - December 2013
Comics contest "Democracy and Human Rights - December 2013
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My city - January 2014
Local Traditions - April 2014
WEDDING IN ALBANIA
Wedding in Albania takes 4 days. On the first day the guests go to the groom's house for the wishes. On the second day the guests go to the bride's house. On the third day the groom takes the bride from her house and he leads her to his house. When the bride enters her new home she dips her two fingers in honey and she marks the door with it, for good luck. Finally, on the fourth day there is the wedding ceremony and it follows a great feast.
Natalie Makri
Angela
My city - January 2014
School Canteen Menu - January 2014
Local Traditions - April 2014
WEDDING IN ALBANIA
Wedding in Albania takes 4 days. On the first day the guests go to the groom's house for the wishes. On the second day the guests go to the bride's house. On the third day the groom takes the bride from her house and he leads her to his house. When the bride enters her new home she dips her two fingers in honey and she marks the door with it, for good luck. Finally, on the fourth day there is the wedding ceremony and it follows a great feast.
Natalie Makri
AN ALBANIAN CUSTOM
In Albania, when somebody goes on a trip they put sugar and rice on the doorstep for good luck .
Clejdi
NatalieAngela
CUSTOMS OF NISYROS
The people of Nisyros love dancing and singing. Τhey have very beautiful festivals.
The patron saint of the island is St. Nikitas.
On July 27th there is the fair of St. Panteleimonas and on the 23rd of August the fair of Holy Mary. (Panagia Kira).
In the summer we have the custom of the traditional wedding. The feast lasts for 3 days.
The most popular fair of the island is on the 15th of August, the fair of Panagia Spiliani. After the mass people chant a funeral song for Holy Mary. After that people eat a traditional dinner followed by a special kind of doughnuts (loukoumades). Then the women who have spent nine days and nights in the cells of the monastery praying and working there (enniameritisses) , make a special kind of food made of boiled wheat (kolivo).The next day all people carry the miracle-working icon of Holy Mary along with the kolivo to the dining room of the monastery and all the people of the island have lunch there.
Anna
Anastasia
Johny
Nickolas
Alexandra
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS
Some days before Christmas mothers and grandmothers make the traditional sweets called melomakarona and kourabiedes.
On Christmas Eve and on New Year's Eve the children sing carols to the houses of the neighbourhood, with sweets and money as a payment.
On Christmas day it's a custom to cook roast turkey.
In Greece the first day of the year we break a pomegranade in front of the door because it's a symbol of good luck.
Klimis
GREEK EASTER CUSTOMS
One day after Ash Monday people start to fast for 40 days. On Holy Thursday housewives traditionally prepare special cakes named tsourekia, biscuits and red colour eggs. On Holy Saturday night they go to church. Shortly before midnight people gather in church holding white candles which they light with the Holy Light distributed by the priest. When the latter chants "Christ is risen" (Christos Anesti), people exchange wishes and the so called "kiss of love". When they return home with the Holy Light of the candles they make 3 times the sign of the cross on the door post over the front door of their houses for good luck. Then they all gather around the table, they crack red eggs and wish one another Christos Anesti. On Sunday morning, mainly in the greek countryside, lamp is prepared on the spit and people eat and dance usually until late at night.
Anastasia
George
Alexandra
Angela
Natalie
Children Of The World - April 2014
Heroes of the past - June 2014
The twelve labours of Hercules
As labours of Hercules are recorded in Greek Mythology twelve feats that were made by the legentary hero Hercules in order to purify himself for the murder of his wife and children,which he had committed when Hera drove him mad. For this purpose, Hercules went to the Oracle to Delphi and fot an oracle, according to which he had to serve for twelve years Eurystheus, king of Tiryns and perform the feats which he had commanded. The labours that he eventually made were:
His first feat was to kill the fearsome lion of Nemea.
The second achievement was the killing of Hydra.
Third feat was when he caught the rapid deer of Kyrenia.
Fourth he killed the Erymanthio Boar.
Fifth, he cleaned the stables of Augeas.
Sixth, he killed with his arrows the Stymphalian Hens.
Seventh, he caught the wild bull of Crete.
Eighth labour of Hercules was the rapture of the wild horses of Diomedes.
After this feat of Hercules, the daughter of Eurystheus, the Admetus, asked for the belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.
Eurystheus commanded him to bring him the cattle of Geryon.
The eleventh feat was to seize the apples of the Hesperides.
Finally, the twelfth feat of Hercules was to descend to Hades and bring on the earth and lead to Eurystheus the three - headed dog Cerberus.
George Louppos
Atlantis
Thousands of years after the alleged sinkinf in the cold and murky waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the island continent of Atlantis,still survives as one of the most tantalizing enigmas of history. If indeed such a world existed, then Atlantis was a civilization that no-one has experienced before, no-one has encountered before of since. Legend coincides with the lost paradise, and every vision of beauty, even today, there is the unconscious root.
Johny Demetris
Achilles
Johny Demetris
Achilles
Achilles was a very famous Greek hero that took part in the Trojan war.The death of Achilles is presented in the Iliad. He was killed near the end of the Trojan war by Paris, who shot him in the heel with his arrow. The legend says that Achilles was invulnerable in all his body except for his leg.Because of his death from a small wound on the heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's point of weakness.
John Nempotakis
Phrixus and Elli
Athamas, king of Minyes in Boeotia, married Nefeli and had two children, Phrixus and Elli. Later Athamas took as his wife Ino, daughter of Cadmus, by whom he had two more children Learcho and Melicertes.
Out of jealousy for Nefeli's children Ino devised an unusual plan: she convinced the women of the city to bake the wheat grains for sowing, so as not to germinate. Athamas sent messengers to the oracle of Delphi to reveal the cause of the famine. Ino persuaded them, by bribing upon their return, to give a different answer from the oracle and say that the femine will cease if Phrixus would be sacrificed on the altar of Zeus.
Thus Athamas was forced to order the commission of the preparations for the sacrifice and Phrixus (along with his sister, according to variations of the myth) was escorted to the altar. Nefeli learned from afar the events, sent the Golden Ram, Mercury's gift, to carry the children on his back, away from Boeotia.
During the course of their escape, as they flew over the sea, Elli was unable to keep on the back of the Ram and fell into the sea,which by then was called Hellespont. Elli got close to Neptune. Phrixus continued his course the Ram brought him to Colchis, where king Aeetes received him gladly and gave him his daughter Chalciope as his wife.
Then, Phrixus sacrificed the Golden Ram on the altar of Zeus and donated his skin (fleece) to Aeetes.It was dedicated to Mars and was hung from an oak tree in the sanctuary of the god. The Golden Fleece was later the target of the Argonauts.
Nickolas Radev
Odysseus
Hercules made twelve labours. Six of them took place in the Peloponnese and six others took the hero far afield to places that were all previously strongholds of Hera and were entrances to the Underworld. Hercules was sent to kill or subdue, or to fetch back for Hera's representative Eurystheus a magical animal or plant.
The twelve labours of Hercules were:
1. Nemean Lion.
2. Lernean Hydra.
3. Golden Deer of Artemis.
4. Eurymanthean Boar.
5. The Stables of Augeas.
6. Stymphalian Birds.
7. Cretan Bull.
8. Horses of Diomedes.
9. The Belt of Hippolyti.
10. The Cattle of Geryon.
11. The Golden Apples of Hesperides.
12. Cerberus, the Dog of Hades.
Stergos Georgallis
John Nempotakis
Phrixus and Elli
Athamas, king of Minyes in Boeotia, married Nefeli and had two children, Phrixus and Elli. Later Athamas took as his wife Ino, daughter of Cadmus, by whom he had two more children Learcho and Melicertes.
Out of jealousy for Nefeli's children Ino devised an unusual plan: she convinced the women of the city to bake the wheat grains for sowing, so as not to germinate. Athamas sent messengers to the oracle of Delphi to reveal the cause of the famine. Ino persuaded them, by bribing upon their return, to give a different answer from the oracle and say that the femine will cease if Phrixus would be sacrificed on the altar of Zeus.
Thus Athamas was forced to order the commission of the preparations for the sacrifice and Phrixus (along with his sister, according to variations of the myth) was escorted to the altar. Nefeli learned from afar the events, sent the Golden Ram, Mercury's gift, to carry the children on his back, away from Boeotia.
During the course of their escape, as they flew over the sea, Elli was unable to keep on the back of the Ram and fell into the sea,which by then was called Hellespont. Elli got close to Neptune. Phrixus continued his course the Ram brought him to Colchis, where king Aeetes received him gladly and gave him his daughter Chalciope as his wife.
Then, Phrixus sacrificed the Golden Ram on the altar of Zeus and donated his skin (fleece) to Aeetes.It was dedicated to Mars and was hung from an oak tree in the sanctuary of the god. The Golden Fleece was later the target of the Argonauts.
Nickolas Radev
Odysseus
Odysseus, legendary king of Ithaca , is the main hero in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey, and also plays a key role in Homer's other epic, the Iliad. He is widely known for his cunning and ingenuity, famous for the ten years it took him to return home after the Trojan war. He was the son of Laertes and Antikleia, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus.
Anastasia Giakoumakis
Menelaus
In Greek Mythology Menelaus was the brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen. In the dominant version he was the son of Atreus and Aeropis, grandson of Pelops and Hippodamia. According to another later version, Menelaus and Agamemnon were Pleistthenous' sons and grandsons of Atreus, nursed by their grandfather.In some circumstance he was prosecuted from Mycenae and fled to Sparta, where the king was Tindareus. Contestant there with other suitors, Menelaus took as his wife Helen, daughter of Tindareus.Tindareus gave his kingdom to Menelaus along with Helen.
Angela Kontoudaki
Hercules
Hercules made twelve labours. Six of them took place in the Peloponnese and six others took the hero far afield to places that were all previously strongholds of Hera and were entrances to the Underworld. Hercules was sent to kill or subdue, or to fetch back for Hera's representative Eurystheus a magical animal or plant.
The twelve labours of Hercules were:
1. Nemean Lion.
2. Lernean Hydra.
3. Golden Deer of Artemis.
4. Eurymanthean Boar.
5. The Stables of Augeas.
6. Stymphalian Birds.
7. Cretan Bull.
8. Horses of Diomedes.
9. The Belt of Hippolyti.
10. The Cattle of Geryon.
11. The Golden Apples of Hesperides.
12. Cerberus, the Dog of Hades.
Stergos Georgallis
Daedalus and Icarus
Icarus was the son of Daedalus. Daedalus was a prisoner of King Minos, because he made mazes and Minos didn't want Daedalus to build for another king a better maze. But Daedalus wanted to escape. So, he made wax wings. When he made the he said to Icarus : "wear them and fly with your wings ". He also said : " Don't go near the sun because your wings will melt" and Icarus agreed. But during the trip Icarus forgot the advice of his father and he went near the sun. So, his wings melted and he fell into the sea and died. The area where Icarus fell was named Icarian Sea.
Nick Bratitsis
Hercules
When Hercules stopped on a crossroad, he saw two beautiful girls. One showed him an easy road,wide and straight. If you follow it, you will enjoy life, but you will make a bunch of bad acts and you will be condemned in the judgement of people. This was the wickedness. The other girl Virtue, showed him a hard road, full of sharp stones and thorns, narrow and rough, where the marching was difficult, but in the end you will win the recognition from your fellows. So Hercules followed Virtue,preferring to suffer to traverse the glory and honour with his good deeds and his virtue.
Fay Sellavtzi
Constantine the Great
He was a Roman emperor. He transferred the capital from Rome to Konstantinoupolis. He is the founder of the Byzantine empire. He established Christianity as the main religion of the empire. He and his mother Eleni were pronounced saints by the Orthodox Church.
Natalie Makri - Alexandra Koropouli
