Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Glædelig julemåned

It is hard to get in a Christmas mood with temperatures at around 20 degrees and sunshine from a clear blue sky.
The shops and big shopping centers tries their best though, as all over, everything is set and decorated for the biggest shopping event of the year; the Christmas shopping. And what is a Christmas without the Christmas markets? In Dresden we got spoiled in that case, in fact in all of Germany they get the best of that kind in nearly every city, town or village, and exactly at the weekend they opened one of the most famous ones; "the Christ Kindl Markt" in Nuerenberg, our school had the yearly Christmas fair.
Around the buildings and all over the basket courts and playgrounds the parents support had put up numbers of stalls, selling all kinds of goods and food. It is a nice tradition and a couple of thousands came to celebreate this "summer" Christmas fair.
But who can drink "Glueh Wein" or "Ruhm Grog" by sunny 23 degrees? No that was not the way to adapt some Christmas mood, and the lot's of Santa figures and the Christmas trees planted around the school area didn't help either as they didn't look real to me or how I remember them from happy my childhood in the dark and cold Christmas time in the middle of no where in Denmark, where the snow nearly covered every thing, except maybe the big chimneys of the the saw mill. So I guess I have to go through December again without any kind of Christmas feeling, just like last year.
But what, it isn't worth it either, and in about one month everybody have forgotten already.
By the way, tomorrow -the 4th of December at 7:30 PM, my football team -(Traktor)Sai Kung Yacht- has a game on the grass pitch in town, so I have to go out and buy some real football boots, but that hasn't any thing to do with Christmas either.

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