A23.Maaike&Deborah

**//Hello,

We are Maaike and Deborah. We have chosen rituals and traditons. Maaike is 14, she lives in Almere-Stad. Deborah is 14 years, she lives in Almere-Buiten.

Could you tell us something about the rituals and tradition in Aruba? We could tell you something about our rituals and traditions in Netherland.

Greetings.//**

smiiiiiiling!

sleeeeeeeeeping!



That's the biggest difference between us! Maaike likes smiling and Deborah likes sleeping! :-P // xD

Do you has special traditions when there is born a new baby? We heard about a special 15th birthday? What do you do? Why at the 15th birthday? When there someone dies what do you do? Do you do something special before you are going to eat? When you do communion (if you do) what do you do after? When you build a home do you do something to show that you have a new house? When you buy/make new clothes do you have to do something special at it?
 * 1) **//__ Aruba __//****//__ day __//**
 * // Do you have a special day about your country? //**
 * 1) **//__ Flag and national anthem day __//**
 * // We read something about it so we want to know more about this. //**
 * 1) __ Tradition/ritual by birth __
 * 1) __ Tradition/ritual by 15th birthday __
 * 1) __ Tradition/ritual by death __
 * 1) **//__ Tradition/ritual after visits __//**
 * // When you are going to have visits what do you do? And when your visit is gone, do you do something special after? //**
 * 1) __ Tradition/ritual by breakfast/lunch/dinner __
 * 1) __ tradition/rituals by communion __
 * 1) __ tradition/rituals by building home __
 * 1) __ tradition/rituals for clothes __

 __ And this is what we think you could ask:

Do you have a special day for the whole country? __ Yes we have Koninginnendag. Then we celebrate the birthday of the queen (Beatrix).

This is a picture of koninginnendag 

and this is our queen __ Do you also have a day for the flag and the National Anthem? __ No, we don't have.

__ Do you have a day to commemorate the people who die in the 2nd world war? __ Yes we have at the 4th of May. We have silence for 2 minutes at 20.00 ( 8.00pm ). The train stops, the bus stops and there is everywhere quiet!

__ Do you have a special day to celebrate the independence of the country? __ Yes we have a special day to celebrate our independence, it's called bevrijdingsdag we celebrate it at the 5th of May.  