Today I want to talk about the comparison of American and German holidays. Thanksgiving and Christmas are therefore the perfect examples.
In November everyone was looking forward to Thanksgiving and one day afterwards - people were talking about Christmas! I hope you'll have fun reading this post because there is a lot that was going on in my head.
Thanksgiving - Our Thanksgiving break was a perfect forerunner for the real Thanksgiving day on Thursday. I got really excited because everyone raved about it - especially about the food - and because of the fact that we don't have this holiday in Germany. We invited our family to our house and everyone prepared something for the dinner. The house smelled wonderful! When everything was reading, we served the food on the counter in our kitchen and the dinner began. I tried a lot of different foods and I was so full. After that we watched football, talked, took some family pictures, and some of us played a little bit football in the yard. A thing I really liked was the tradition when everyone said what they are thankful for! At night we played some board games, talked, and had a really nice night with the family.
One day after Thanksgiving I was a little bit shocked. Everyone started talking about Christmas gifts to buy and played Christmas songs on the radio - it wasn't even December!
Christmas - In the following days Christmas was a big topic everywhere and I'm pretty sure it will become more of a topic. But traditions of Christmas in Germany are different than here. We have wonderful Christmas markets (if you can't imagine what I'm talking about: look for "German Christmas market" pictures - you'll love it), special traditions in my family, and one big difference is that we celebrate on the 24th instated of the 25th. The family comes together, we eat dinner, and then we give our gifts. When I was younger we had Santa come to our house in the form of a person that my parents arranged for my brother and me. But I was older before I realized this haha. The 25th and 26th are just two more days you spend together with your family. We also do not have Christmas stockings - I always saw them on American Christmas movies but I've never had one. One thing both countries have in common are the Christmas trees and the decorations of the house (but I could imagine that Americans decorate their houses a little bit more).
I'll figure out all of this and I'm excited to make this experience! I hope you all will have amazing holidays. Merry Christmas!
In November everyone was looking forward to Thanksgiving and one day afterwards - people were talking about Christmas! I hope you'll have fun reading this post because there is a lot that was going on in my head.
Thanksgiving - Our Thanksgiving break was a perfect forerunner for the real Thanksgiving day on Thursday. I got really excited because everyone raved about it - especially about the food - and because of the fact that we don't have this holiday in Germany. We invited our family to our house and everyone prepared something for the dinner. The house smelled wonderful! When everything was reading, we served the food on the counter in our kitchen and the dinner began. I tried a lot of different foods and I was so full. After that we watched football, talked, took some family pictures, and some of us played a little bit football in the yard. A thing I really liked was the tradition when everyone said what they are thankful for! At night we played some board games, talked, and had a really nice night with the family.
One day after Thanksgiving I was a little bit shocked. Everyone started talking about Christmas gifts to buy and played Christmas songs on the radio - it wasn't even December!
Christmas - In the following days Christmas was a big topic everywhere and I'm pretty sure it will become more of a topic. But traditions of Christmas in Germany are different than here. We have wonderful Christmas markets (if you can't imagine what I'm talking about: look for "German Christmas market" pictures - you'll love it), special traditions in my family, and one big difference is that we celebrate on the 24th instated of the 25th. The family comes together, we eat dinner, and then we give our gifts. When I was younger we had Santa come to our house in the form of a person that my parents arranged for my brother and me. But I was older before I realized this haha. The 25th and 26th are just two more days you spend together with your family. We also do not have Christmas stockings - I always saw them on American Christmas movies but I've never had one. One thing both countries have in common are the Christmas trees and the decorations of the house (but I could imagine that Americans decorate their houses a little bit more).
I'll figure out all of this and I'm excited to make this experience! I hope you all will have amazing holidays. Merry Christmas!