christmas is coming

here I am again. After this long silence I decided to break it, though I am struggling with ideas what to tell you, because there still isn’t much happening. However, I decided just to talk about the Christmas preparations here, compared to Germany.

When it’s about Christmas decorations, American people go crazy! They come up with insane ideas and you could think they lost every type of common sense. However, somehow they really finish those projects and you see amazing decorated front yards everywhere around the neighborhood. But sometimes… people don’t know when to stop and go, as I think, a little bit to far and make the night as light as the day.

Another difference is that Christmas still refers to the birth of Jesus here. When I think back to Christmas time in Germany, everybody celebrated it without any deeper meaning. It was just a great chance to be nice to each other and get gifts. Also, people here don’t buy gifts in the last two days before Christmas but already in November^^

I hope I could keep your excitement up with this post and hope that there will be a big event coming on the next days.

~ von André am Dezember 9, 2007.