Christmas in Bavaria,
Germany
Each year on December 24th,
we celebrate Christmas. In the days leading up to Christmas the department
stores are packed. The children are busily working on their presents. The
houses are decorated festively and Christmas trees are put up.
In the morning the excited
children wake up. The parents make their children wash themselves and dress
nicely, in order to get to church on time. In church a nativity play takes
place, which the children of the community have been practicing with the
priest. Afterwards the children and their parents rush home to prepare
the celebration. The parents send their children to their bedrooms before
they start decorating the Christmas tree and putting the presents underneath
it. Mum prepares dinner in the kitchen. Mostly you eat roast goose, but
that is different in every family. Now, the Christmas bells ring.
Finally the children are
allowed to enter the living room. But before they can open their presents
you have to sing Christmas carols, like "Silent Night, Holy Night", or
"Oh Christmas tree". After that the children may open their presents. Very
often the family then plays a game, before they eat dinner.
This is one way to celebrate
Christmas very happily.
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