I’m Maja. I want to tell you something more about my country. First, about music. Here, in Serbia, people listen to all kinds of music. I and all my friends listen to the rock, American usually. I listen to the 80s and 90s rock. My favourite bands are Jon Bon Jovi and red Hot Chili Peppers. Our domestic, very popular rock group was Bijelo Dugme. They don’t play any longer. But another very popular group is Van Gogh.
Ax for the religion, we, Serbs, are mostly Orthodox Christians, but there are also, Catholics, Jews and Muslims (the last ones especially in the South Serbia).
Our most important holidays are Christmas and Easter. Our Christmas is on the 7th January. At Christmas Eve we go to the church, where a Yule Log is burnt. The next very important holiday is Easter. On Good Friday we colour eggs. There must be some red eggs and the others can be of any colour. We keep one red eggs as a house keeper until the next Easter. On Easter day, we bump eggs. We usually give an egg to anyone who enters our house on that day. And a very special holiday in our country is SLAVA. It’s a specific, Serbian holiday. We celebrate a patron saint. Every house has its own. The most popular is Saint Nicholas. In Serbia we say that the whole Serbia celebrates it, ones as hosts and the others as guests. In the morning the priest comes into house, he and all the members of the family cut the special cake made for that occasion. After that, in the afternoon, every family has a lot of guests. They usually come for lunch and stay late at night. There’s a lot to eat and drink then, and we usually bring a gift to the host family. It’s a very solemn and important day for each family in Serbia. We don’t have to go to school that day and people who celebrate can have a day off. Another important day is Saint Sava’s Day, on the 27th January. All schools in Serbia celebrate that day.

Serbia doesn’t have a sea. The nearest country where lots of people go to the seaside is Montenegro. But people also go to other countries like Greece, Turkey, Spain, Bulgaria… Serbia has some beautiful mountains and spas. Many people spend their vacations there, because you can really relax, have some fresh air and temperatures aren’t as high as in the rest of the country. I spend my vacations on some of the mountains.

In Serbia, there are a lot of outdoor activities. In my school very popular one is singing in the school choir. It’s very interesting, not hard and you can get some new friends. Almost every child practices something. Tennis is very popular nowadays, but there are also some “traditional” sports like football, basketball and volleyball. If you like nature you can go with mountain climbers or brownies, and if you like water you can go swimming or play water polo. In winter you can skate or ski on some of the mountains.