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Aris celebrating Easter with friends in Greece, Volos 1997.

« Now here…we do everything like they [the Greeks] do. We celebrate Easter and all that. Everything, everything. We have our children. So, they know. So you have to do it. Because they [the children] don’t know the Albanian traditions. Even we don’t know them, let alone the children. They grew up here and they’ve been used to the traditions you have here. So we’ll do all the things we’ve been talking about. »

Julian (36, Albania )

« At Easter in particular, some old ladies came to make the special cookies with me and to teach me how to make them by myself. They taught me the Easter customs. Also what we do for Christmas or for New Year’s. I’ve learned many things. And I try to follow the Greek traditions as much as I can. With all my heart! Because we really have a great time. We mostly celebrate holidays like New Year’s Eve with the family and… of course with Greeks, too. For example Ahilleas’ siblings or members of my family who live here come to our home, and we celebrate all together like a family. And we also have other celebrations, like for the children’s name days or for other people’s name days or…Easter or New Year’s, because we celebrate New Year’s and here you celebrate Christmas. »

Anieza (42, Albania )

New traditions

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