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Christmas Eve // Christabend - Germany
by Stefan Kanngiesser
24 December
Weihnachten
Christmas we celebrate on Dec/24 not Dec/25 like you. On the evening of Dec/24 german kids wait for the Weihnachtsmann. They have to wait in there room till the parents call them. Until this time parents prepare everything, put on the candles on the christmas tree, put the presents under the tree and put cookies on the table. When the Weihnachtsmann comes, he always asks the kids for a song or a poem. After that he looks at his golden book. There he reads all the good and bad things you did the last year. This can be quite frustrating. <g> Then you get the presents. That's the moment I love most. After that we sit together singing christmas songs and talk.
On Dec/25 the whole family comes for the Christmas dinner. In Germany we eat goose at Christmas. On Dec/26 we visit other friends not belonging to the family. If you have many friends to visit this can be quite hard. Everywhere you have to eat something. So you aren't hungry till New Year.<g>
That's the way we Germans have Christmas. I like the time before Christmas more. Everything in Stuttgart is decorated, There's a big Christmastree on the marketplace and a big Christmas pyramid. People playing Christmas songs in the street. Stuttgart is very crowded in this time but all the people are in a good mood.
Greetings from Stuttgart,
Stefan
Stefan Kanngiesser
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