QoW: How do you celebrate Christmas?
@Wenzel/DAAD
It’s the most festive time of year in Germany. Christmas is at your doorstep and everybody is getting ready for the big family fest. How do you like the German Christmas time? How are you planning to celebrate it yourself and how is it done in your home country?
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Enough food and drink sampling at Anuga? How about some German technology? Just outside Hall 8 of the fair, a mini Zeppelin was spotted hovering above our heads. This fascinating craft is operated by Friedrich, a 20-year-old electrical engineering undergraduate. He flies this Zepplin nine hours a day and walks about at the north entrance [...] 
When we leave home and head to a foreign country to study, one of the things we miss the most is FOOD. All those delicious things that reminds us our home country!! At the Anuga, we found people from every part of the world offering their typical food so we can have them at the [...] 
In South Africa we celebrate Christmas in midsummer. Although we also have a lovely and festive dinner of some sort, everyone is outside afterwards in summer clothes and enjoys the heat or goes for a swim before the real festivities begin.
Most people also celebtrate Christmas Day in SA and not necessarily Christmas Eve like in Germany. In this case especially the children often rise very early to unwrap their gifts with great anticipation.
It is very different and the typical atmosphere one is used to in the northern hemisphere doesn’t exisat there as such. We never hope for snow on Christmas
Comment by Nienke Leeflang verfasst 14. December 2008 um 19:28
CHRISTMAS IS THE HAPPIEST MOMENT IN THE YEAR.NOW I AM IN LITHUANIA PERSUING MY MASTER DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH.I WANT TO CELEBERATE CHRISTMAS IN GERMANY.I DONT KNOW HOW ABOUT VISA AND ALL?
Comment by RENI ANIYANKUNJU MATHEWS verfasst 11. September 2009 um 13:30
I have spent Christmas in a few different places around the world and its amazing how differently they are celebrated.Have been to Germany(Berlin) before and have really enjoyed the German christmas-markets, the recipes, the songs the whole atmosphere to it. The most importnat thing for me during Christmas is snow. Hopefully where ever I am this year, it should snow. That’s all is ask
Comment by James Taylor verfasst 7. September 2010 um 14:25