martedì 20 marzo 2012

At the "Seaworld" in Heraklion

The children took me to an amazing aquarium to discover the world under the sea water!
We saw small fish...
...and big ones!
We picked up so many information about life under water.
We have so wonderful memories from this excursion...
I'll never forget the submarines, the octopuses, the sea turtles and all the things we saw there!

lunedì 19 marzo 2012

Lolly, the pastry cook!

Today the children taught me how to make orange shortbread.
First we prepared all the incredience. 

We molded with our little hands. 

Ready for the oven. 

Mmm, delicious! Bon appetite! Καλή όρεξη! 

Of course, I post the recipe here for all my friends:

INGREDIENTS

1) 2 ½ cups oil
2) 1 cup red wine
3) ½ cup orange juice
4) 1 ½ cups sugar
5) 1 soup’s spoon cinnamon
6) 1 teaspoon cloves
7) 1 orange (zest)
8) 1 soup’s spoon baking powder
9) ½ teaspoon baking soda
10) about 1kg soft flour
11) ½ cup roasted sesame seeds

PERFORMANCE

 We are mixing the sugar and the oil in the bowl and we are stirring with a whisk.
Add the wine, cinnamon, cloves and we drop baking soda in juice. We add them in the mixture, as well as the zest and sesame. We are stirring  well with whisk to combine ingredients. Sift flour with baking powder. Pour half  of the flour, knead and we add the rest of the flour until the dough becomes pliable and it will not sticky. Do not knead the dough too long because it will be the cookies hard. We give shape to our cookies and we could sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake at 170oC in air for 25-30.

70 servings
Preparation time 15 minutes
Cooking time 30 minutes



At the beach

We played with the sand...

...and at the play ground.

Then we went back to our lighthouse... in our classroom!

A visit to the Environmental Education Center of Anogia

We travelled by bus.

We became waterdrops...

We played with the snow...
Lovely excursion!

giovedì 8 marzo 2012

Lolly, the maid of honour

B'1 class had a wedding ceremony in their class today!
This is us waiting for the bride!
 At last she is here!
  The best men and the maid of honour
 We are all very happy!

 Kanelos (Cinnamon), Rozoula (Pinky) and Lolly!
 Our wedding ceremony had everything, even a priest...
"Live!!!" "Να ζήσετε!!!"

Planting!

Today one of the school's gym teachers, Mr. Michalis, told us that they were going to make a little garden in the school. So, first we had to dig the soil...
Then we went to the nearest field to look for nice wildflowers and herbs...
And finally we planted them! Hurray!!!




Traditional games

Today the children taught me some greek traditional games:
"Περνά περνά η μέλισσα" (Perna perna e melisa - There goes the bee)

"Γύρω γύρω όλοι" (Gero gero oly - We all go round)

martedì 6 marzo 2012

A visit to the Military Airport at Chania

What a great experience! I even had the chance to enter the cockpit...

A folklore exhibition at our school...!


B' class organised a wonderful folklore exhibition at school with traditional items that their grandparents or great-grandparents used to own... Of course Lolly was the guest of honour!

Carnival is great!!!

The children took me to the warehouse where the chariots for the carnival parade are made...

When the children went out, I had the chance to get on all the impressive chariots.

There was a great party at school! All the children were dressed up and we danced till we drop!

But suddenly a thief came to the party and stole me (Lolly)!! A famous inspector came to help the children look for me. So, THE TREASURE HUNT  FOR LOLLY BEGAN!!!!!

Finally, the children from D' class managed to solve all the riddles and found the Lolly treasure!!
Everyone was happy again, and we went back to the party!

The next day at the parade the children made sure that I had a wonderful time with them! The costumes and the chariots were fabulous! Now I know that Greeks are non-stop dancers...