o in Edessa, a city close to Thessaloniki. When he was two years old his family moved in a village, which was located in the district(nomos) Pelas and it is called St.George. They remained there for about nine years, until Tasos became 11 years old, and after that they moved to Lakoma, a village in Halkidiki. From that village they moved, when Tasos was 16 years old, for the last time in Playiari. Tasos family was consisted of his father and mother, him and his sister Evi. His father work, being a priest, was the reason that they had resided in so many places. His whole family meaning his relatives(soi), is quite big. Due to the fact that his father had another two brothers, Tasos has fourteen cousins who live in Skydra, Playiari and Thessaloniki. Tasos family is a little bit different from all the other common families and that is that almost all the males in the family were priests. If he would become a priest he would be the 50th in the family, which gives him some privileges, but is something that he did not chose to follow. In 1988 his parents got a divorce. Tasos and his sister stayed with their mother, who was self-employed and was sowing clothes. Here we understand that the gender roles within the family are changing rapidly. Their mother is becoming everything for them, meaning that she has to complete men tasks often. Tasos then also was assigned different responsibilities than any other child of his age. We can say generally that the family was basically being supported by the mother and Tasos. He moved from his family house three years ago when he got married to Efi. On the other hand Efis family is totally different from Tasos. Efi was born in Thessaloniki 35 years ago. Her grandparents moved from Smyrni, a city in Asia Minor, to Thessaloniki and more specific to the territory of Ampelokipi. Her father is retired and her mother is a housewife. Her father has only one more brother and the relatives, only the c...
