Today’s session of the Gabfest Club in Window on America Dnipropetrovsk was dedicated to the topic “Orthodox Christmas celebration in Ukraine”. The session started with a challenging activity. The group was divided into four teams and was given a task to create a Ukrainian Christmas menu in English and present the menu to the Club. The task implied the knowledge of Ukrainian Xmas traditions – a lent 12 course dinner on Christmas Eve and meat 12 course dinner on Christmas day. All teams managed rather successfully with the task. The menu vocabulary was very helpful to the ladies.
The second tradition that was discussed was the Christmas folk theater performances - the so-called “verteps”. This year they were affected by the war with Russia – new characters appeared in the performances; the club members described the new characters and their symbolism. The final element of the celebration was Xmas fortune telling popular among the unmarried girls. The Club’s ladies commented the information from the illustrative video and shared their own experiences and ways of Xmas fortune-telling. The session allowed the club members to sum up their knowledge of the Ukrainian Xmas traditions and prepared them for conversations about it.
Number of participants – 15 persons.
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