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Friday, January 05, 2007
New Year's Eve
In Germany, New Year's Eve is called Silvester. We celebrate by setting
off lots of fireworks. This year we had a family night at the church
where we watched videos and snacked until it was time for the big
fireworks. I also built some paper airplanes out of the new book that I
got for Christmas.
One
of my friends at church is in the German Air Force and I like to talk to
him about my planes. We also sang songs and prayed together. I like to
play the keyboard. I am learning a few songs on my fiddle as well. At a
quarter till 12, we all bundled up and walked down the street to a local
hotel where they set off fireworks by the billions (or so it seemed ).
In the courtyard, they had quite an explosion of colors and sounds. They
had flairs going and a symphony playing. Their show lasted about half an
hour and then the neighbors started setting off their fireworks. So
first everything inside the courtyard was lit up and exploding and then
everything all around us on every side started going off. It was very
loud and really beautiful. We were out walking around looking at the
fireworks everywhere for about an hour and then we went back to the
church. It was really warm this year, which was nice because my toes
didn't freeze. We started to set off some fireworks of our own, but it
started raining at about 1am, so we didn't do much. We decided to save
them for our family 4th of July celebration. So, we went back inside and
sang songs again for a while before heading home. I got to stay up until
3 am! I had a good time and am looking forward to spending New Years at
my Oma and Opa's house in Iowa next year. Here is a picture of our
family that was taken at church on Christmas Eve.
Happy New Year!
Skyler Sudbrock