Μήλο μου κόκκινο (red apple of mine)

The students of 3rd grade worked cooperatively,sang and recorded the traditional song:'Milo mou kokkino'

Action evaluation was done with questionnaires to students, teachers and parents

  It is a love song from Macedonia. A young man’s love has met with no response. The girl he loves avoids him.  He calls her “apple” and “pomegranate”, like a nice, sweet fruit.  In his attempt to go close to her, the young man speaks to the girl’s mattress, as if it was a person. Her mattress informs him that the girl has gone to the fountain to drink water and fill her jug.This phrase is metaphorical.  The fountain of a village was the place that young people met, by chance or not.  Maybe the girl has gone there to meet somebody else she is in love with and in this way she refuses to see the man of the song. The young man’s disappointment as well as the girl’s refusal show their feelings which are true and simple, personified by natural and physical things.