When you travel somewhere, you tend to get the expected question of "how was your trip?" You supply one of two expected answers, "I had a wonderful time" or "It was dreadful." Then comes the next question, "Why?" This can be a more difficult question to answer and there are multiple replies. Yesterday I went with four other girls to a Christmas Market in Aachen, Germany. I had a wonderful time.
Why?
The Christmas Market was something like I would imagine the North Pole to be like except without elves, heaps of snow, toy making, or Santa Claus. So maybe it wasn't much like the North Pole at all. It was in a lovely town square that had a beautiful church and a castle like building. Winding throughout the square were little wooden booths that had boughs of pine and lights strung along the top (here I use the word boughs because I am teaching Daphne the song, 'Deck the Halls') Each stand offered something different to the many tourists wandering about--a teddy bear, a Santa Claus, warm nuts, chocolate covered bananas, Christmas Ornaments, jewelry, hot wine, etc...Everything had a Christmas flavor and everyone there was in the Spirit. There was live music and I was with the right people to enjoy it with. The live performers didn't really sing Christmas songs though--perhaps they thought that what they were singing was 'festive' music, but for me it did not bring feelings of festivity. "Homeless, homeless...many deaths tonight, it could be you." These words along with simple choreography (pointing at the crowd in order to emphasize you) seemed to have the opposite effect on my friends and I then I believe the song was intended to have. After listening closely to ensure we were hearing right we couldn't help but laugh at the attempt to sing a proper Christmas song.
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