11^th February 2004

This morning, year 6 pupils at St. Martin’s school had a taste of the The Feast of the Passover which included parsley, lettuce, lamb, horseradish, haroseth, pita bread and grape juice. This lasted through out the morning with Father Tony, Mrs. Syers and Mr. Bortoft; we had prayers and readings by class1 children and I read a short story too. Father Tony told a story about making a sandwich for someone (loved one) that’s a best friend. So Harrison and I got some pitta bread and lots of horseradish sauce and then put a bit of lettuce on, and then MORE horseradish, and closed it up in the pitta bread like a sandwich. For a laugh gave it to Lauren, who took one bite, knocked her drink over and ran to the toilet to rinse her mouth out.

Everybody was laughing!

When we finally came to our main meal, which started with us dipping in some lettuce into salt water and saying a short prayer, it was horrible and, you know lettuce doesn’t taste of anything and with salt it makes it even worse.

Then we moved on to breaking some pita bread in half and I put some horseradish in, lettuce, haroseth (which is a mixture of raisins, grape juice, apples cinnamon, and almonds, which I didn’t put in!) and a slice of lamb with a bit more horseradish.

To end the feast we had two more toasts, readings, prayers, filling a cup that doesn’t get drunk for Elijah. Then youngest girl (Poppy) to go and look for Elijah, and then when we had finished we all shouted out ‘Next Year In Jerusalem’.

I had great time and I wouldn’t mind doing it again, and thank you to Father Tony.