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Finally, we had decided to check out the famous event. Although we've spent almost all of our lives in Kikinda and this manifestation is being held for 16th time already, we never went, not even once, to see that village wonder. Mokrin is a medium-sized village, we can say it's a little town, and holds no less then 2 world championships.
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where now?
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 Goose fight championship was forbidden this year because of the bird flue and the finals in dumping the painted Easter eggs were a bit different then usual. This year the participants competed in the category of goose eggs as well.
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youth against experience
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Of course, there were the standard categories – children and grown-ups competed in the dumping of chicken eggs. And while Milica and Vukasin argued over who’s going to win, Slobodan took it all into his camera while listening to my directions on how, what, where, and which button to press, why should it be that way and why it can’t be any other way…
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and the winner is....
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To me the most interesting thing was to take photos of the children who were running around. They were so cute, all covered in ice-cream or sugar foam, with big lollipops and all kinds of swords and toys sold at every fair. And this was some kind of a fair!
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Isn’t he just born to be a musketeer?
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The best thing in the world...sitting on Daddy’s shoulders eating sugar foam and messing up Dad’s hair…yiipii yiipii yey!
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We saw an exhibition of children’s works on the theme of Easter at the local primary school, got through the crowd and went to see the newest tourist invention of the ingenious Mokrinians. It’s a very old cute house with one room for sleeping, one room that serves as a kitchen and a big backyard. All with a well in the backyard from which the clear spring water runs, a real rarity in the Kikinda municipality.
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the house, seen from the backyard
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the loom
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The owner of the popularly called Ethno house welcomed us with a smile and offered to tell a little story about how people used to live back then and what they had and what they didn’t have. The mud floor haven't changed, and once upon a time people used to cover it with cow dung and water every week. A big tile stove stands in the room and the whole house acts as one big air conditioner. It’s cold inside during summer, and warm during winter. The house is made of tamped earth. The room has one big old-fashioned bed, dinning table with chairs and a loom. Back in the old days every girl had to learn how to weave before getting married in order to weave herself a wedding gown and dowry. Old cloth with beautiful ornaments lie across the floor. A big wooden beam in the middle of the ceiling across the whole house holds the ceiling and the roof.
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milk jugs on a clay stove
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The above photo shows a penjer (an archaic, turkish-originated word for window) :)
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There’s a hand-built stove in the kitchen. Again, every woman had to know, as one more part of her house duties, how to build a stove herself.
There’s a hole in the wall, something like a shelf on which glasses, little glasses and flagons with rakia and wine used to stand.
The whole house is painted with plaster and that material is what keeps the house all together. It has to be painted at least once a year.
This house is a so-called poor-man’s house, and a poor family use to live in it. Of course, the rich people's houses had more rooms.
In the end, after all this story and of course an extra story about her eco-garden she offered us juice and cookies.
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And to top it all, the real spirit of the Easter waiting for the grandchildren...
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