Carnival - The Street
Parade
Carnival is a festival, which
takes place in February. In Germany there are two days, Carnival's Monday
and Shrove Tuesday, on which the big street parades take place.
In every town there is usually
a big carnival parade - one for example through the pedestrian precinct
in Munich. For this fun festival the people dress up as cowboys, little
girls, as ballerinas or princesses. People also like to disguise themselves
as witches and clowns.
Most of the carnival parades
start at 2 p.m. The crowds line the streets through which the parade will
go. There are also many floats in the parade. There are often caricatures
of important persons.
On the floats there are people
who throw sweets into the crowd. The children try to catch as many sweets
as possible. They sometimes do this very well with the help of umbrellas!
Altogether carnival is a crazy festival that everybody likes. It is a little
similar to Halloween.
Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium,
Gräfelfing (Deutschland)
Daniela Einhäuser,
Mona Hawari, Angela Schlaugk
Teachers: Reinhard Forster
<[email protected]>
Werner Guellner <[email protected]>
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