Help students extend this idea into their thinking about and accepting the traditions, values, and beliefs of other families and larger cultural groups. If your class is corresponding with a Peace Corps Volunteer, have students explore how families in your Volunteer's host country celebrate special events. Everyone has their own flat, or apartment, and typically they all have three rooms. Everyone has a garden, and they must have a garden because if they don't they're not going to eat in the winter. Most people have a pear tree, a plum tree, and an apple tree, strawberriesall kinds of vegetables and potatoes.
Potatoes are the staple of the diet here.
Kibelisks and cepilini are two traditional Lithuanian meals both made from potatoes. When it's time to harvest the apples, the people pick all the apples from the trees and all the apples from the ground and begin to make different things out them. Sometimes they make applesauce, apple cheese, apple cake, and they dry the apples. Just about a month ago every house I'd walk into had big strings of little cut apples strung throughout the house. The gardens are usually 10 to 15 kilometers outside the town, and so in order to get to them the families must take a bus.