Finally Christmas

Hey Guys,

I am back and Christmas is gone, sadly ☻.

24th of December:

On the 24 you don't really do that much here, it's more like the 23 in Germany. To prepare evrything for he next day.

I spend the day wrapping up the last presents, watching christmas movies, and going to mas in the evening. Mas here is not that different to Germany, expect that they don't have christmas tree in the church and they don't do Krippenspiele. The rest was kind of the same, just in english. Anyway for me it was a bit different because it was cathlic mas and protestant as normal for me.

After we finished mas, we were allowed to open one present because my hostsister couldn't wait until the next morning.

25th of December:

We got up at 8 o'clock and me and my hostsister sneaked down to open our stockings (the socks you put on the fireplace on christmas eve). At half nine my hostparents came down and we could finally open all our presents.
I didn't really expected any presents because my mom told me that she forgot abut the parcel for me and i didn't think my hostfamily would buy me that much. But it turned out my mom did send me a parcel and i got some presents from my hostfamily as well, which was really nice ♥

Because they only celebrate christmas on the 25 we went to my hostmom's sister after gift giving, for dinner. Dinner on Christmas day is at around 3 o'clock and we had tradional turkey and ham with potatos, gravey and vegetables. For dessert we either had ice cream, black forest cake or apple pie, or all toghther.
It was the first time I tried turkey and I have to say it's not really that different to chicken but it is nice.

We were staying there until around 7 o'clock before we went back home to get everything we needed before we went to my Hostdad's sister, where I met all his brothers and sisters. Gerald has 8 siblings in total and than all with their family or wife or whatever, so you can imagine it was full, verry full. I can't remeber any of their names and I think i still can't when i am leaving Ireland ☻.


26th of december:

The 26 here is called boxing day. No shops are open and you are normally just at home lying around the couches watching movies and eating the sweets you got on christmas or playing with your new toys.

So, Christmas here is a lot different to Germany and I can't really say that I like it more, it is nice and great to exerience all of it but I think I stick with the German way of celebrating it ♥

I wish you all a happy New Year ☻

Henrieke♥

Christmastree, market and...

Hey guys,

I can't believe that it's already two weeks since we've been in Dublin. Time runs so fast, and it is nearly Christmas (in 13 days).
Last week we already put up our christmas tree and other decoration and I have to say it is a lot different to germany. Nobody here has a real tree they all have these plastic ones :// and a lot of deco stuff on the tree, not like the classy ones we have... and when they already have some of the presents they are putting them under the tree and dont wait until the 23rd or 24th, which is definetly weird to see.
And irish families don't have an Adventskranz like germans and don't bake any christmas cookies :((
Some of them also have like snowmens or reindeers outside of their houses.

This Saturday we went to the Belfast 'Christmasmarket'. Yes it is kind of a christmas market but verry small and most of the shops were food (out of 10 food shops 7 were german ☻). It was different compared to german ones, not bad, just different (but german ones are still better and I think nobody can top the german ones.)

German Wurst (Salami) Shop 

And we all baught a real german Currywurst, even if I am not really a sausage fan, I really miss german bratwurst ☻.

After that we just walked around Belfast, a little bit shopping and stuff like that... 

Yesterday, so on Friday I got my first irish report, which was pretty good, but because school here is really easy it is not that hard to get good grades and all that stuff...
The weird thing is that you don't get them personally, NO, the school is sending them home cause otherwise it could happen that the parents would never see the report because the students burned it or something... That really happened sometime ☻

Henrieke♥

PS: This morning we really did had snow, a lot. Sadly it was nearlly all gone when i came home this evening :((

PPS: I think i am gonna write the next post after christmas because I haven't really planed anything exciting for the next two weeks...