I went to the same school of Ano Syros. In the first year of Primary School, we had a special space on the floor, and it had sand in it. And it also had pebbles and we made different designs. When the teacher was teaching the First or Second grade. There were three grades together.…
When we were young, we did not have nice homes. They had no stairs, they were low. There were house that were very old, with reeds and wood. We had houses like that too.
I will tell you a story from my childhood. Once, when I was young, 9 years old. There were no large shops at the time, grocery stores and things like that. And here in Axos, there is an area called Axos, the 5th School is there. They used to hold a market there. All the…
She talks about Christmas and when they decorated, about the Epiphany and the goblins, that they did not have plastic trees, she shows a picture of her tree, about the candles instead of lights, about the sweets they made and that they did not have an oven, about fireplaces, about gifts, about St. Basil. …
In Syros, you know that back then the housewives, other than ‘Kourabiedes’ and ‘Melomakarona’, they also made these little cookies, like small Melomakarona. Because in Ermoupoli, the people who built Ermoupoli, most had come as refugees from Chios, the island of Chios. And they brought many nice sweets from Chios. And they made these little…
