1 Jan 09 - FROEHLICH NEU JAHR!!!
We stayed at home to celebrate the new year. Since we are 6 hrs ahead of the US, we were not able to watch the Time Square Ball Drop like everyone else. AFN did not show anything from Berlin or anywhere else. German TV probably did but we don't have it!
Jim is ready for the New Year!!!
We pulled up a clock on the laptop, wore hats and blew horns at the click of midnight on the screen!! Then the fun started!!! New Years Day is the only day that Germans can use fireworks (feuerwerks) so the whole town fired them off. It was really exciting. They were going off all over town and since our house is at the end of teh valley, we can see the next town 2 miles away that had lots of fireworks as well. This lasted for 30 minutes. We are not just taking bottle rockets here - these were nice fireworks and ALOT of them all around and over the house!!!! It was really quite nice - running from room to room to see the fireworks all around town and down the valley!!
For Lunch, we invited our landlord's daughter and her family to have a traditional Southern American New Years Day lunch. Germans don't eat a big meal on New Years Day. We told them ahead of time it would be a different meal. They really enjoyed it and went back for seconds and thirds!!!! We had pork roast, collard greens, black eyed peas, candies carrots, coleslaw, maccaroni and cheese, cornbread, and for dessert (nachspeissen) - banana pudding and sweet potato pie. They enjoyed it especially the dessert. The kids (14, 6 and 3) enjoyed the dessert. They had never tried any of these before which is why we invited them for the meal to share our culture with our German hosts. Below is the photo of our lunch.
We asked Lena, their daughter, to be a tutor for Jamie in German starting in mid Feb after Jamie finishes swimming. Should be a good for Jamie to help her with vocabulary and simple conversation because she is not getting enough German in school.
Traditional Lunch - Food, Family and Friends!!
Our guest are Annette. her husband Mathias, Lena, Anna Sophia and Valantine
Jim is ready for the New Year!!!
We pulled up a clock on the laptop, wore hats and blew horns at the click of midnight on the screen!! Then the fun started!!! New Years Day is the only day that Germans can use fireworks (feuerwerks) so the whole town fired them off. It was really exciting. They were going off all over town and since our house is at the end of teh valley, we can see the next town 2 miles away that had lots of fireworks as well. This lasted for 30 minutes. We are not just taking bottle rockets here - these were nice fireworks and ALOT of them all around and over the house!!!! It was really quite nice - running from room to room to see the fireworks all around town and down the valley!!
For Lunch, we invited our landlord's daughter and her family to have a traditional Southern American New Years Day lunch. Germans don't eat a big meal on New Years Day. We told them ahead of time it would be a different meal. They really enjoyed it and went back for seconds and thirds!!!! We had pork roast, collard greens, black eyed peas, candies carrots, coleslaw, maccaroni and cheese, cornbread, and for dessert (nachspeissen) - banana pudding and sweet potato pie. They enjoyed it especially the dessert. The kids (14, 6 and 3) enjoyed the dessert. They had never tried any of these before which is why we invited them for the meal to share our culture with our German hosts. Below is the photo of our lunch.
We asked Lena, their daughter, to be a tutor for Jamie in German starting in mid Feb after Jamie finishes swimming. Should be a good for Jamie to help her with vocabulary and simple conversation because she is not getting enough German in school.
Traditional Lunch - Food, Family and Friends!!
Our guest are Annette. her husband Mathias, Lena, Anna Sophia and Valantine
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