These christmas markets seem all the rage in Germany at the moment, they are evrywhere, in a small town i went to, they were preparing for one, in Ludwigsburg they have a huge maret already set up, in Markrönnigen, they had the first night of theirs last night, but what are they for?
In the xmas market they have stalls with goods to buy, anything you think of you can buy here, clothes, food, toys, you name it they probably have it. In amongst all of this, they have hot food stalls and Glühwein(heated fruit juice with cinnamon) stalls, so that people can eat hot foods and drink hot drinks as they look through the goods. I havent seen a market in depth yet, just walked through a couple to see what they are about.
Today was my first day at school, well i got up nice and early for it, 3.30am sounds early enough to get ready right, stupid jet lag, its getting better though. School is much different, they have 6 spells a day but only 3 subjects so this morning we had art for 1.30 hours split into two 45mins spells, then maths and latin, i read my book through both because they were sitting class tests.
Oh btw this bits for Karl, you know how everytime i bring up Germany you say the name Helmut, yeah i met a Helmut in the weekend, nothing like what you thought a Helmut would be like, he had a mansion for a house with a huge model train set hahaha, i guess that stamps on your stereotype haha.
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What about Uter, Gunther, or any other great names that seem to sum up streotypes? Say hi to Helmut for me. Markets sound like fun.
the jetlag will wea off soon tho rite :D
It's interesting about the Christmas markets. Your picture of the council building came up real good. What food do you eat over there? Any kiwi-type foods like marmite, peanut butter, honey etc. What sort of meats and veges are there. What has the weather been like and the temperature? How are you climatising to the northern hemisphere? Have you noticed when you flush the toilet or pull a plug out of the handbasin the water swirls the opposite way to here in God's own. And the switches to turn power on and off - are they "upside down" too? How do you get to school. Is it a boys only or mixed sex school? Is there much english spoken there?
Well that's about all our "sticky beak" questions for now. Hope to hear back soon from you for all your followers!
Love David, Robyn & Natasha
um we eat heaps of cheese and bread haha, pasta, meats are just the same pretty much, no nz food, its cold here atm, its snowing as i write this, um na the light switches are just way bigger, the blinds are on the outside of the window but made of metal and they use then instead of curtains, um yeah unisex school, everyone can speak english pretty much
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