Fasching, Fašing, Fashing?!

You knew that just now the craziest time of the year was happening? Well, at least it was in Austria and Germany. Starting from the 11^th of November (11.11) at 11:11 the so called Fasching is going on, ending with Faschingsdienstag (Tuesday of Fasching) which was this year at the 17^th of February. In this time all over our countries a lot of different traditions are happening, usually very loud and colourful ones. The original idea behind these traditions was to get rid of the winter and to have a last loud and hilarious feast before the calm time of Lent starts for Catholics.

Especially on the countryside in Austria you can witness a lot of astonishing events and traditions at that time of the year. I can only recommend you to go there to see it once. The rest of these traditions, that’s still the most wide-spread, is a big party on Faschingsdienstag where it is common for everybody to dress up – usually as something colourful and funny like a clown. Since this is usually the most fun for children, Fine and me decided to organize an event for Fasching. We invited the dormitory’s children and youths to celebrate with us and called the event – adapted to Lithuanian – Fašing. So after putting up our invitational poster we got asked A LOT of times what this Fašing (or Fashing?) is.

 

 

We started our event by explaining the children and youths a little about this tradition in our home countries. And since I already explained that you’re supposed to be dressed up for this party, putting on some make-up for everybody was the first and most important step of a very nice evening. Altogether we played some games that Fine and me had prepared as well as we did some games that the children and youths had to face in groups. I supervised a game where they had to try to eat some small muffin as fast as they can – without using their hands! Quite a mess but also a lot of fun. After all the games we shared some cake with the children and youths that we had coloured in different, bright colours, suiting to the evening’s theme. In the end we danced altogether, some dances that I probably would never dance as a private person but you know, it was for the children… Sometimes the evening might have been a little chaotic but if Fasching is one thing out of all then it is chaotic, so actually everything went as perfect as it could be ;) It was quite something to do for Fine and me but I can tell you, seeing how much fun the children and youths had throughout the evening is the best payment we could have wished for for all our effort. It was a very cool experience to set up this special event for them and of course it’s always a pleasure when we can work together on something J I guess we will have to find even more occasions to organize such special events for celebrating together with the children and youths.

 

balloon dance game

Bolognaise - traditional dance for Fasching

 

 

Iki pasimatymo,

Monika