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Sergio and Laia

Hi, we are Sergio and Laia and we go to the Sant Andreu school in Barcelona. We are 15 years old and we study 4th of ESO, the last year in the ESO. Sergio: In my free time I play foodball in a foodball team. My favourite team is F.C. Barcelona, I like house music, my favourite dj is David Guetta. I like meeting friends and I like animals and I have a dog. I don't go to Poland but when you come to Spain I will be with you. Laia: In my free time I like watching series on Internet like Gossip Girl or Skins. I like to going to the street or other places with friends. I like a lot of types of music. I listen to Rihanna, David Guetta, Iyaz, Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, Jason Derulo and other Spanish groups. I will go to Poland and I will welcome one of you in my house.

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Eid ul-Adha

Feast of the Sacrifice is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide as a commemoration of Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismael for God.It is one of two Eid festivals that Muslims celebrate.Like Eid ul-Fitr,Eid ul-Adha also begins with short prayer followed by a sermon.Eid ul-Adha is three days long and starts on the 10th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic calendar.This is the day after the pilgrims in Hajj,the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia by Muslims worldwide,descend from Mount Arafat.It happens to be approximately 70 days after the end of the month of Ramadan.

Other names of Eid ul-Adha:

Eid ul-Adha is also known as Hari Raya Haji/Iduladha/Aidiladha/Qurbani/Qurban in Indonesia,Malaysia,the Philippines and Singapore;Eid el-Kbir in Morocco,Algeria,Tunusia,Egypt and Libya;Tfaska Tamoqqart in the Berber language of Jerba;and Tabaski or Tobaski in some parts of America;Babbar Sallah in Nigeria and West Africa;Ciidwayneey in Somalia and Somali speaking regions regions of Kenya and Ethiopia.In Turkey it is often referred to as the Kurban Bayramı or ''Sacrifice Feast''.Similarly,in Bosna and Herzegovina,Albania and Bulgaria it is referred as Kurban Bajram.Kazakhstan,it is referred to as Kurban Ait.

Turkish Wedding

Ceremonies are generally start on Tuesday and end on Thursday, or start on Friday and end on Sunday. Costs and expenses of wedding are met by the bridegroom’s family. Despite differences in accordance with various locations wedding may be classified mainly as planting a flag, women’s entertainment of the night next before the wedding day the bride’s fingers freshly tinged with henna (Kına Gecesi), fetching the bride, bride’s veil. Before the wedding as is done in the course of engagement ceremony invitation is distributed and everybody is invited for the wedding. While the bride’s family tries to complete preparations for trousseau, the bridegroom’s family tries to complete articles which required to be bought for the bride and which have been previously determined.

A wedding flag is planted by men coming from the noon prayer and friends of bridegroom at the bridegroom’s home. At some regions such thins as apple, onion, mirror, etc. are placed on top of the flag. Thus the wedding gets started.

Night Next Before The Wedding Day, A Women’s Entertainment Where Bride’s Fingers Are Freshly Tinged With Henna ( Kına Gecesi): This night in which the bride will be together with her family, relatives and friends all of which are women is just before the day of fetching bride as known the main wedding day. This night which is called “Kına Gecesi” is celebrated in the bride’s home. The bridegroom’s family and other guests are met and

hosted in the bride’s home. Usually dry henna brought by the bridegroom’s family is broken to pieces in a silver or cupper vessel by

a woman whose father and mother alive, not experienced any separation. After preparing the bride, veil

ornamented with red flake is placed over her head, and she is brought into the middle with accompaniment of hymn, folk songs about henna. Hands and feet of the bride are dyed with henna. The bridegroom’s side is under the obligation to put money in the hand of the bride. Dying ceremony of henna is different according to regions. The henna so dyed has such names and types as “iplik kınası” (henna for yarn), “sıvama” (smearing), “kuşgözü” (bird eye). After leaving woman who came together for dying henna close friend of the bride remain with her and enjoy themselves till morning. In some of our regions henna dying ceremony for bridegroom is also held in the bridegroom’s home.