Tuesday 20 December 2016

German Christmas Traditions

Hey everyone!

I hope you're as excited for Christmas as I am! I went home on Saturday and I'm so happy to be with my family and friends again!

Today I want to tell you about German Christmas Traditions and about our Family Traditions in special.


The Days Before Christmas 


I found out that people in many other countries start decorating their Christmas Trees right at the beginning of December. In Germany most of the families decorate their trees quite late, a few days before Christmas. In our family it's a tradition to decorate the tree on the 24th of December, we're decorating all together while listening to music and eating bisquits.


Tuesday 6 December 2016

My favourite Christmas Movies

Hey there!

I hope you all had a great day! If you're not in a christmassy mood already just watch the films in my list and I promise, you'll feel christmassy afterwards! 🎄


1) Love Actually

 

Yep, that's one of my favourites! Who doesn't love a film about Christmas and love?! And have you heard the cute accents? Absolutely adorable. I can watch this film even in summer and I will feel ready for Christmas instantly. 

I don't want to spoiler but the scene when Mark uses his signs to tell Juliet 'To me you are perfect'... Best scene ever! 




Monday 5 December 2016

10 Ways to feel Festive

Hey everyone! 

Do you already feel festive this december? If not, this is my top 10 list with things I do every year before Christmas to feel festive.


1) Go to a Christmas Market

 

Here in Germany most of the Christmas Markets start the weekend before the 1st advent, so quite early. Just ask some friends and go there together to see all the nice festive things they sell. 

Mulled Wine at the Christmas Market

Sunday 4 December 2016

What Christmas means to me


Happy 2nd advent everyone! 

Sunday means relaxing and doing the things you had no time for during the week. So I called my parents today and we talked about Christmas and what the plans are for the time between Christmas and New Years Eve. 

That's why I thought about what Christmas means to me and I think it's a good idea for a post. So I can compare my meanings with others.


That's me on Christmas Day in 1995


Saturday 3 December 2016

My Christmas Decoration

Hello again,

finally I finished all of my Christmas decoration that I'd like to share with you. This post is probably going to be quite short, but I have a few photos for you.

Advent wreath

I decided to create a simple and small but nice looking advent wreath because my room is quite small and I don't have space for too much decoration. 

If you're from Germany you might now the shops where I bought all the things but I'm not sure if they exist in other countries as well. 


My advent wreath :)

Friday 2 December 2016

German Christmas Vocabulary

Hey there! 

As you probably know, I'm German so I want to write down some Christmas vocabulary for you! If you like reading about German culture, lenguage and things please let me know and I can to some other posts about Germany.

I'll write down the German word first and then you can have a guess what it means in English.

Thursday 1 December 2016

My Favourite Christmas Songs

Hello everyone!

I decided to do Blogmas! 🎄 I'm so excited about it because I've been in a really christmassy mood for a few weeks now. 

Some of you may already know that I'm German so some of my favourite songs are in German as well. I hope I can find a link to all of the songs so you can listen to them if you like. I'll also explain what the song is about if it's not English.


Monday 28 November 2016

How Tinder Can Be Useful



Hey there,

Today I want to tell you about how I met my boyfriend and you can believe me, it's a really crazy story! 


It all started during my holidays in London in september. To meet new people I went to lots of pubs but I also used Tinder (there are these group activities, so I met some people to play frisbee in Hyde Park for example) to see the city with some strangers during the day. 

Sunny day in Hyde Park after I met some people to play frisbee

Saturday 26 November 2016

Shoreditch's Streetart

Hey guys!

During my time in London I spent a day in Shoreditch because someone told me that there's amazing streetart and they were right! I've seen really crazy things. Unfortunately I just had my mobile phone with me and the quality is not so good so I only took a few photos, but I'd ike to share some of them with you. 



Friday 25 November 2016

Lost in London

Hey there! 

 
I finished my last blog with my journey to London and want to go on with telling you about my days in there. 


I made it to London!

I took a bus from London Stansted but during the drive I fell asleep. The last night before the journey I was so nervous that I couldn’t sleep! Luckily I woke up early enough to get out of the bus at Waterloo Station. 

Sunday 13 November 2016

Wanderlust

Hello again!

Today I want to write about my first trip to London that was also my first trip I ever did on my own.


I went to London at the beginning of September, right after my brothers 18th birthday and I started planning it at the end of August so it was quite spontaneous

It was in the middle of my holidays and I wanted to go on an adventure. I always dreamed about exploring a new city and meet new people but I was not confident enough to try and my parents told me it would be too dangerous and I couldn't handle it because my English wasn't good enough and such things. 

Introducing Me And My Blog

Hey Guys!

This is my very first blog post ever! I'm so excited and even a bit nervous about it.
I'd like to start with telling you some things about me so you can get to know me a bit better.

I'm a 22 year old student from Germany. I study in Landau, that's in the south-west of Germany and I'm going to be a teacher for childrens with special needs. My family lives in a small village near Münster, that's in the north-west of Germany so I moved 470 km south to study. I have a younger brother which just turned 18, who I'm really close to. But I don't want to talk about my famlily the whole time so I'll start telling you a bit more about me. 

First: I hope my English is not too bad but if you find mistakes feel free to comment and correct me!