For the New Year kids go door to door and sing New Years songs. They get a little money or candy from the neighbors they visit and sometimes they also collect the traditional Moldovan braided bread in the shape of a wreaths called "colach". These are some pictures of some of my students who came to my house. It was so fun to see them singing and playing instruments. My ninth grade students came in a big group playing the saxophone and batting on little drums. One of them danced around in the middle in a goat costume.
My host mom's students (which are also some of my students) preparing for the New Year's celebration.
Some delicious salads made by my host mom. Yes, that is pomegranate on the fruit salad, and yes it was delicious.This is a video of some of the kids collecting the "colach" (bread wreaths).
This is video of the kids playing at my school. They smooth out paths to slide down in through the snow. Kids are fearless I tell ya'.
Great pics and posts. Your baba de omat made me laugh so hard. I was walking around the piata centrala in Chis, and a baba yelled at me when I was walking by.."Ajuta-ma". When I stopped and said "poftim?", she handed me her punga full of brinza and had me follow her for ten minutes while she relocated her business to a new sidewalk.
ReplyDeletehahaa! thats awesome.
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