1) What would be a typical day for a child (12 years old)? 2) What are the schools like? 3) What do Polish people do at Christmas? (any traditions, etc.) You don't have to answer them all, I'm just trying to collect some research of the country for something I am doing. Thanks.
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Polish people celebrate Christmas Eve more than the Christmas Day. Christmas Eve is the day when you meet all your family together, sing Christmas carols and have a very traditional supper (it's suppose to start when the first star appears on the sky). Fish, mainly carp, beetroot soup with ravioli, various cakes etc are the main Christmas dishes. Traditionally children get presents on the 6th of December (St. Nicholas' day), but now days they get them on the 24th too. there are legends saying that animals can talk in the Christmas Eve night, people also go to the Church at 24th midnight for a Christmas service. LOL, when I was 12 I was playing with my neighbours in the forest near by (looking for mushrooms, playing hide and seek, football, building a tree house or a dam on a little river, skying in winter, making a snowman, typical suburbs childhood, but that depends where you live. In general when you are 12 you are in the final class of the primary school, you have classes between 8am and 1 or 2pm, you do your homework and go play on a computer or outside. Schools are rather on a good level, children in Poland must know more than their colleagues in the UK or US, you can't choose any modules/subjects at this stage, you need to learn everything. Public schools are considered as the best, private counterparts tend to have rather bad reputation and lower level of teaching (opposite to the UK)
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