CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE

Christmas holidays in France

What are the things children like doing most during your Christmas holidays ?

 Having a good meal, eating chocolate
 Spending time with the family, visiting our relatives
 Sitting and playing in front of the fire
 Decorating the house and the Christmas tree
 Going away to the mountains to ski
 Opening presents

How long are our Christmas holidays?

They last 2 weeks from Saturday December 20th until Monday January 5th.

Do nine year old children believe in Santa Claus?

Apparently, one pupil still believes in Santa Claus.
3 stopped believing in Santa Claus when they were 3 years old, 2 when they were 4 years old, 4 when they were 5 years old,7 when they were 6 years old, 6 when they were 7 years old and 2 when they were 8 years old.

Their favourite present

Playmobil, lego city, nintendo DS, games for play station, “multi purpose knife”, street surfing (skate-board), a TV, cards and family games, clothes for dolls, billiard, a blackboard,
“polly pocket characters”, laser sword, pets (a cat, a rabbit, a turtle), a robot.

On which day and at what time do you open your presents?

Depending on the pupils, most of them open their presents in the morning of the 25th, few of them at midnight at Christmas Eve and very few in the evening of the 25th.

Typical cakes for Christmas?

Most of them have the typical Chocolate log with custard for dessert.
Quite a lot have a vanilla or fruit ice-cream log.
Few of them have a lemon filled with lemon ice-cream, “pâte d’amande, meringue” .
Most of them have chocolate truffles.

This is the recipe of chocolate truffles.

Ingredients:
200g of chocolate
60g of fresh cream
150g of butter
2 yellow bits of eggs
some cocoa powder

Instructions:
- Break the chocolate and heat it in a pan.
- Add butter and stir chocolate and butter together.
- Add cream, eggs.Stir.
- Put your paste in the fridge for 3 hours.
- Then make some balls of chocolate, roll them in chocolate powder.
- Put everything in the fridge and eat them!

Have a nice Christmas holidays !