Oh. Interesting thing. Because the Germans don't
have the big holiday of Thanksgiving, and because they start celebrating
Christmas with the 'Advents' (the 4 Sundays before Christmas), they
start putting up decorations and stuff much earlier. This last week, the
city has already started putting up some of the decorations on street
lamps and stuff. Though none of it is lit. And a member told me that
some Germans get very upset when you decorate and start turning on the
lights before 'Toten Sonntag' (dead's Sunday/Sunday
of the Dead). It is a sort of memorial day for them, where they visit
graves and leave lots of flowers and stuff. It's a really big deal here.
And there's some kind of superstition about how you shouldn't set
up/turn all your Christmas lights before that day. It's supposedly
disrespectful of the dead or they don't like all the lights or
something... Odd. :P But the member house we're in right now is working
on decorating as we speak, and has Christmas music playing. :)
1 - French Toast!
2 - A random little man-made pond/lake thing in Bagenz.
3
- Awesome view of a factory in a city called Peitz. It was dark, we
were walking back to the train, and there was a little man-made lake
right in front of it. I thought it looked super cool, so I took a
picture. :)
4 - (Kinda out of order) Me cooking the french toast!
