I live in Greece and I am 11 years old. In my country, on Christmas day, we have special sweets, such as ‘kourabiedes’ and ‘melomakarona’. We also have turkey. In the morning, we decorate the Christmas tree. In England, the people have a big Christmas tree in an amusement park and they have a lot of different presents under the tree.
At Easter, we dye the eggs red and we have a big celebration with meat. The English do not dye eggs, because it is only a Greek-Orthodox custom.
English people are more polite than the Greek people. They always have a big breakfast in the morning and then they have lunch at 4, or 5 o’clock. They never eat late at night. Also, they always say ‘thank you’ and ‘please’. Greek people like going out very much. They go to special places, like taverns, or ‘bouzoukia’ with Greek music and they dance all night long. Greeks are also very friendly.
In England, when it is someone’s birthday, his friends take him out and he doesn’t pay anything all day. In Greece, we usually have a birthday party at the birthday kid’s house, with a birthday cake and local food. The birthday kid’s parents pay for everything!
