Christmas Eve

For Polish people Christmas Eve ismore important than Christmas Day. In the evening all the family get together.

Dinner starts when the first starappears in the sky.

Before dinner members of the family share a holy wafer and wish each other health and happiness.

THERE ARE USUALLY TWELVE DISHES ON THE TABLE -

carp, herring, salads, „pierogi” (dumplings) with cabbage and mushrooms, poppyseed cake, red borsh and other things.

On Christmas Eve we don’t eat meat.

After dinner people open the presents waiting for them under the Christmas tree

and they sing carols.

Many people go to church to attend Midnight Mass.

On the 25th and 26th of December people visit their relatives or friends and eat a lot.

The presentation was prepared by Rozalia Osmałek class 6B