On the rainy 29th November 2010 »Erasmus girls« from Poland: Karolina Dańda, Karolina Centkowska, Maria Paterek, Malgorzata Debska invited us to dormitory in Portorož, but they were mysterious about the reason for our meeting that night... It was St. Andrews visit in Slovenia!
St. Andrews Day is a deep-rooted tradition from Poland, although there are related traditions also in continental Europe. It is the celebration of Andrzejki, Christian Apostle, celebrated on the night of the 29th through 30th of November and connected with the first day of Advent. From tradition girls from Poland on that night of November pray to St. Andrews for their (future) husband. First they make a wish, then they wait for a sign and then throughout the game look for the sign.
Girls from Poland do this diviation every year and it was not difficult to convince us for that kind of game, because we all like to believe in beautiful things which are waiting for us, especially when it comes to love. We played symbolic meaning of key, some kind of furtune bottle, we almost learn the future name of our husband/wife and the most interesting was pouring hot wax into cold water by a hole from the key (symbolic meaning of key)-when the wax cools, we tried to read symbolic meaning of its shapes, from their shadows on the wall. They said that with this shape is possible to recognize or suspect future partners appearance, attirbutes of proffesions or our future travel and way of life.
That night was magical, girls-thank you for that and the readers, look for that magic next year or write me on: spevan.janja@gmail.com.
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