Being Egyptian whose parents are very religious Presbyterian Christian I always grew up in the church. During religious celebrations it is always a big deal since we are Egyptian we always get to celebrate Easter and Christmas twice. Once with our own Presbyterian Church and then again with our family friends who are Coptic.
Easter always changes each year though this year the Coptic Easter fell on the same time as our Easter but this meant I got to have a big feast twice. The first one was celebrated with my own Church on Good Friday and then the next one was even bigger since my Coptic friends were fasting from meat and milk we got much more food at 12 o clock in the morning on Easter Sunday. As I mentioned in my previous post food= good celebration. Even every Easter Saturday we celebrate with family and friends having a big BBQ at my other friends house ever since I can remember. (below is a photo of my cousins, brother and I in front of their balcony on Easter when we were little)
Christmas in Australia usually means opening and giving presents for me it means celebrating Jesus birth. This is always done on the Sunday before the 25th of December. But on Christmas day growing up we always went to a BBQ for lunch at one persons house and since it was my other friends birthday on that day every year we would celebrate with a big party at his house at night. But this is not the end of the celebration we always celebrate with the Coptic people as well which means celebrating at 12 am on the 7th of January.
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