A Romanian Christmas.
by Valeriu M. Trufin (a.k.a. Quiet Mike)
I'm really buissy in the Christmas season.
First we have the schools choir concerts in school and in the city. This year we do a live radio concert.
Then I am the church choir conductor and so I get the choir ready for the season. During this I see choir members I forgot exist
It's nice to see them all dressed in somewhat a uniform way. Here in Romania choirs don't wear robes or something like that. Everyone comes as they like. But during Easter and Christmas I ask them to dress alike. The buissiest part starts on Christmas Eve with a 3 hour service 6-9pm. Then we run home dress more casual but more consistent, and gather again at the church (youth 15-30) and start caroling all the new members that came in the church over the current year, as well as the city's more importan people like the maior and the likes.
On Christmas day we have services moring and night, with a lot of sleep in between. Then again we meet to go carroling our families; the families of the people in the group. Since we are many we divide in 4-5 groups based on age range and best friendships so we can carrol everyone. The second day of Christmas we have the church services and then at night we go to someones house where we stay the night to discuss play games listen music, watch movies and other group stuff. Each group goes to a different house of course.
During all this we eat a lot of home made cookies of all kind. Some really good other unbelivable good, and a few just good :P
The carroling starts from about 10pm and ends sometimes at 6am the next day.
This is what Christmas is like here in Romania for most... Well you have to add some not so good singing
and alcohool to non christian carroling groups.
Marry Christmas to everyone!
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