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das/der Silvester New Year's Eve

das Feuerwerk firework

der Bller banger

Blei gieen to pour molten

lead on cold water

and tell s.o.'s

fortune from the

shapes on New

Year's Eve

der Sekt sparkling wine

Guten Rutsch! /

Frohes neues Jahr!

Happy New Year!

die Bowle, der Punsch punch

New Year's Eve in GermanyOn 31th December the German celebrate

the New Year's Eve every year together:

with their friends, family or with other

people on the main square of a big city,

e.g. Berlin or Munich. There are a lot of

Germans to decide to have their New

Year's Eve in another country (Vienna,

Paris, etc.). For the big event the German

buy a lot of stuff: sparkling wine, many

alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, snacks

(e.g. chips, salt sticks), ingredients for

a buffet and bowl) and, of course, firework! German love to light firework and see the big

illuminations. During the special day you can watch

dinner for one and . German toast the New Year with

a glass of sparkling wine or champagne. On the TV

many people watch the German-English short film

Dinner for One or the episode Sylvesterpunsch of the

German series Ein Herz und eine Seele what was

broadcast in the 1970s. Some groups play a kind of

drinking game: when the waiter of Dinner For One trips

over the lion's head the group has to drink one shot.

Believe

me, the

waiter trips really often! Anyway if the German

want to know about their personal new year

they pour molten lead on the water (in Germanit calls "Blei gieen"). The shapes shows the

fortune, e.g. if the shapes looks like a dog you

get a dog or a dog saves your in the new year.

Most of the shapes hasn't a clear form, so the

people have to interpret how the shapes looks

like and what it means for the fortune.

Eventually the German New Year's Eve is

really funny and interesting, so go ahead andcelebrate your next New Year's party in Germany!

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Cologne Cathedral and the Shrine of the Magi

On 6th January the churches celebrate

the Day of the Three Wise Men (orThree Kings) who were distinguished

foreigners and visited Jesus after his

birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense

and myrrh. In the New Testament there

are no information about the numbers

and the fact that the people are

kings.The Star of Bethlehem led

Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar toBethlehem where Jesus was born in a

Stall. Unquestionably the Wise Men

wouldn't found the way to Jesus with

the help of Google maps! By the way

the Three Kings symbolize the three big continents: Europe, Asia and Africa!

Anyway In Germany there are three regions (including my home region Saxony-Anhalt)

where this special day is a bank holiday, so nobody has to work or go to school

(unfortunately you don't have this holiday!). A lot of German take the chance and go to the

other 13 regions to go shopping because they haven't a holiday on the 6th January. Instead

to go shopping you can travel to Cologne, the fourth biggest city in Germany. There you find

the relic of the Three Kings in the Cologne Cathedral. It is a Catholic and Gothic church

which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 and is the third-highest

spires in the world! The Shrine of the Three Kings is a middle-aged reliquary which contain

the bones of the Magi. Furthermore it's decorated with about 1000 of pearls and precious

stones and is the

biggest worked gold

article of the Middle

Age in Europe. You

can also find the relic

in Mailand but the

flight to the Italian city

is more expensive

than Germany!

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