Tuesday was Pancake Tuesday! Every year on the day before Ash Wednesday, or Lent, everyone in Ireland eats pancakes for breakfast lunch and dinner! I are my pancakes with lemon, sugar, and lots and lots and lots of berries!! My aunt Carol had two types of pancakes- sweet and savory. The sweet had whipping cream and strawberries and the savory had mushrooms, and rocket, and green peppers. Lily packed her pancake with tons of Nutella, Hershey's chocolate syrup, marshmallow fluff, and mini marshmallows, quite a difference per person, huh?! On Wednesday, Lent started. I decided to give up sugary sweets and drinks and adding sugar to items to make them taste better but boy was it hard because we made eclairs in home-ec and I couldn't put sugar in my tea or my cereal! Also, it is traditional to have the priest put a cross of ash on your forehead on Ash Wednesday, however, I've never done it. And what was weirder was the nearby priest came to the schools to put the ash on our heads. Now, if that was in America, you could sue the school for potentially forcing the students into a religion. Also, our school is right next to a church (we can actually see a graveyard outside our window, creepy right?!), religion is a class, and classes will sometimes attend mass on a Thursday, these would all be profoundly frowned upon in America!! I find it really interesting how much religion is apart of peoples lives here.
This week I also got two letters in the mail! One from my grandma and another from my brother. I've gotten a couple letters from my grandparents and I love it because it means so much that someone would take time out of their day to sit down, and write a letter and then I can actually hold it, as apposed to a text or email. My brother's made me laugh and a little worried because he described in great detail how he would turn our rooms into a big room for himself. I miss him so much because Lilyanna is so much different than Tighe and isn't even close to how it is living with him (which is stressful and fun at the same time). ;)
-aoife
Below are some pictures (they go from dinner pancakes to morning)
aunt carol's pancake
uncle richard's pancake
lily enjoying her pancake
aunt carol's savory pancake
uncle richard flipping a pancake
me flipping a pancake
my pancake
aunt carol and lily having a laugh when the pancake didn't quite make it back onto the pan
"huh? what do you mean too much chocolate?"
Lily and her masterpiece
my morning pancake
my first pancake!
the table and ingredients
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