German National Team News & Discussion Thread - Post WC 2010

My parents made their own for us. 4 kids in the house and they stopped getting us one each because we would get through it too early and then raid our brothers' and sister's (just like Cris09). Led to big fights.

So they got 24 good size x-mas decoration boxes (4" by 4") and strung them up on one string.

Pro: way more candy and chocolate than one little piece every day.

Con: you had to wait your turn for 4 days.

 

I agree subtitles would have been nice, I think the DFB just doesn't understand how many fans from abroad they have.
Just pay a student a few Euros and let him do it.
They have so much money, I don't see the problem.

They didn't really say anything intersting though, Happy holidays, thanks for the support, happy christmas etc..

Holtby:

He really seemed to emphasise Germany being his home-country. Kinda weird. Maybe he wanted to make sure that those England rumours were never true?!

 

I think he was probably just joking around. The issue of him ever playing for england was always a non-issue.

 

That's it actually. I'm sure I've heard it like that.

No idea where the German community in Santiago is though. Except the Goethe Institut, and I doubt they sell them there, lol.

It's funny, 'casue the photos don't show in the thread, but when I wuote your post they do... and down in the page as well.

They are beautiful, by the way.

The only German influenced areas that I know about are far away in the South, so no chance of me going there now... and I'm probably too busy at the moment to have time to look around in Santiago. Will probably have to be next year. Then maybe I'll take the time and make one for him.

 

El Club Aleman en Santiago

La Escuela Alemana (Die Deutsche Schule)

La Escuela Suisa (Die Schweizer Schule)

 

The Adventskalender or Kranz for that matter are not very popular traditions amongst the german descend or germans for that matter. We used to do it with my father in Germany. So my mom and I have kept it alive with Adventskranz. An Adventskalender is probably impossible to find, but we used to make our own anyways. Seldomly we bought them from shops were there was horrible candy in it

 

These are very similar to the ones my grandparents sent us...








We would hang the calendars up somewhere near the tree and every morning we would run down for our piece of chocolate before going to school.

 

Idk about you guys but I'd be putting carrots, spinach, broccoli and things like that in each case for those little brats!!!

 

My grandparents always said the discipline part was the parent's job, and as grandparents, theirs was to spoil us silly - and they did.

 

Fair enough, I wouldn't really know, you're lucky you got to live close to yours for a while!

 

For a while...I lived in the US for a very long time too. As I said, when we were in Ecuador, my Oma and Opa would ship care packages to us.

 

Cool. How old were you when you left Germany?
I wasn't old enough to remember much and later on it was just visits once a year back to SL. My grandparents were friends' ones wherever we lived, they were awesome too though.

 

This is the adult version

 

Ours looked very much like this one.

 

Around 6...





That looks very nice.

 

Lol, sounds like a great idea. I wish they were sold around ehre... then, I'd need one with vegan chocolate, so I'd probably have to make it myself anyway.

 

do they have advent calendars in the US?

 

Yes! What hole have you been in?

 

like vermont?


j/k...No, i have never been around for christmas here, always taken off ove pacific.

are they mainstream here and do they include the chocolate?

 

At least I watched a movie with Billy Bob Thornton, and they seemed mainstream enough since the audience was clearly expected to know what they were (and it had chocolates).

 

i've lived here in NY for a while and I've barely seen one in stores.

 

Woldmarket or CostPlus usually carries them. Trader Joe here on the west coast. Don't know if you have that back east. Trader Joe is owned ALDI.

 

these must only be onthe west coast?