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5 WEIRD German Christmas Traditions (and one that's not...) - Duration: 8:43.
I love the German Christmas traditions, but some of them are a little weird.
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
In the past I've made a several Christmas videos, including but not limited to German
versus American Christmas traditions, a video about Advent calendars and Advent wreaths
in Germany, Christmas dinner in Germany versus the USA, trying German Christmas snacks, and
even a video in which I read you a poem.
And I have put all those videos and more into a Christmas and New Year's playlist, which
I will link down in the description box below.
But now, some of the German Christmas traditions that I've experienced that are, in my opinion,
are a little bit weird.
First up: Krampus because, well, this one's a pretty easy target.
From what I learned, Krampus is the evil sidekick of St. Nicholas
in some parts of the German-speaking world.
So not in all parts of Germany, but here in Munich at least there is the Krampus Run in
December, where hundreds of...
Krampuses? Krampi? Krampuses? Krampuses.
During which hundreds of Krampuses parade through the city.
Now, Krampus can take many different forms, all of them terrifying, and while St. Nicholas
brings gifts for the good little kids, Krampus is the punisher of the bad boys and girls,
and even carries around a whip or this whip-like stick ready to use.
Now as an adult, I personally loved the Krampus Run.
I had so much fun there, but still it just, it seems a little weird that St. Nicholas
has this evil companion running around with a whip.
For more information on where Krampus came from and video footage of the demon sidekick,
you can check out my video from the Krampus parade in Munich a few years ago.
Next up we have the Christkind pageant in Nuremberg.
Now, as far as I've understood it, Christkind literally means "Christ Child," and in many
parts of Germany this then equates to the baby Jesus.
But in Nuremberg the Christkind is actually a teenage girl, and every two years there
is this kind of competition to choose the new Christkind.
Which, having a competition to choose the new Christkind already seems a little bit strange,
but then I found out that there are also height regulations for the Christkind.
So to even qualify to compete, the girls must be at least 160 centimeters.
Which makes this sound to me more in the direction of a beauty pageant.
Is this a Christkind beauty pageant?
I just don't understand why is there are height qualifications for choosing the next Christkind.
So yeah, this tradition just seems a little strange to me.
If anyone can explain it better I would love to hear down in the comments what this Christkind
pageant is all about. Thank you.
Now this next one is a Christmas tradition that is a little weird, but I love it.
I love it so, so much.
And that is putting your clean shoes or boots outside on the night of December 5th so that
Nikolaus can come during the night and fill them with little treats like oranges, walnuts,
small chocolates.
I think this one is weird because it always feels a little strange to eat chocolate that
has been in my shoe.
Like, no matter how much I clean the shoe, it's still a weird place to put food.
But I love this tradition because it's also just so cute to open up the door the next
morning and find my shoes filled with treats.
And yes, Nikolaus has come to our apartment many years, Mr. German Man always makes sure
that he knows to come here too. Thank you, Stefan.
Another strange Christmas tradition that I've taken part in several times here in Germany
is called Schrotteln.
Now, Mr. German Man tells me that this tradition can also be called Wichteln, but it's never
been called that any of the times that I've taken part in it, so I'm sticking with Schrotteln
for this video.
Now, Schrott means scrap, so Schrotteln is basically where you gift your friends your
old scrap, the stuff you don't want anymore.
You dig around in your home and find something that you don't want anymore.
You wrap it up, usually in old newspaper, and then get together with your friends and
play a little game where you have to pass around the "gifts" until everyone ends
up with something crappy from someone else.
It is totally fun, and a really great way to enjoy spending time with your friends without
having to go out and buy something new, spend money, so I really love this tradition too,
but still when you explain it out, like that you give your friends the crappiest stuff
that you can find in your apartment that you don't want anymore, it definitely sounds a
little weird.
And then during Christmas it is also a tradition in Germany to watch the movie "Drei Haselnüsse
für Aschenbrödel," which is literally in English "Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella,"
but is also known in English as "Three Wishes for Cinderella."
And this movie was filmed in 1973 in both Germany and the Czech Republic, and the movie
was filmed with both German and Czech actors and when they first shot the film, the Czech
actors spoke Czech and the German actors spoke German, so the original footage of this movie
is in both Czech and German all mixed up together.
And then for the final Czech film, they dubbed the German parts into Czech, and for the final German
film, they dubbed the Czech parts that they had into German.
Which I think is an amazing, such an interesting way to go about making the movie.
But it was still a little weird for me when I first found out that watching this now over
40 years old Cinderella movie that has apparently nothing to do with Christmas is a
Christmas tradition in Germany.
And then lastly we have a weird German Christmas tradition that isn't.
So in America somehow, at some point in time, somewhere the rumor got started that it is
a German Christmas tradition to hide a pickle, real or as an ornament I'm not really sure,
in the Christmas tree and the first child to find it gets a prize.
But I have yet to find anyone in Germany who does this or who has ever heard of this tradition.
So this is a weird German tradition that isn't.
However, if anyone out there does this tradition in America or Germany or anywhere in the world,
I would love to know, so please let me know down in the comments.
So my question for you is: what is your take on these Christmas traditions and what other
interesting holiday traditions do you know of around the world?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching!
If you love these videos, if you enjoy the content I'm putting out there, please don't
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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
If anyone...
More in the direct...
Fine...
Another strange...I have a really hard time starting.
Still kind of like, huh. Interesting. A little weird. Interesting.
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Germans LOVE Talking About THE WEATHER?? - Duration: 6:57.
Let's talk about the weather!
My American viewers, wait, please, don't go! Come back! Come back!
Although, I guess if you've already gone, you won't hear me saying come back.
But anyway, come back!
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
For me as an American, talking about the weather is a solid go-to small-talk topic.
But, from my experience, in the U.S. talking about the weather is usually used in situations
where just you need a little something to help break the ice and assist in eventually
hopefully segueing on to more interesting conversation topics.
Topics you actually want to talk about.
Besides when, of course, there's a hurricane or a drought or some other kind of extreme
weather situation, or maybe if the weather is doing something particularly weird or impressive,
usually on a day to day basis, if I bring up the weather, it's not because I actually
am hoping to chat about the weather for any length of time.
It is either a bridge to hopefully lead to other things to talk about, or I have run
out of anything else to talk about and I am feeling that awkward, awkward silence, and
I want to please just make it go away.
So I bring up the weather as a last resort.
From my experience, that is not always the case in Germany.
In fact, many Germans actually seem to really love talking about the weather.
And not the weather as just a transitional conversation topic but the weather as actually
the topic of conversation.
I've seen people at a party here in Germany talk at length about the weather and then
once they have exhausted that conversation topic, they have talked about the weather
as much as they can, when I would finally be oh-so ready to move onto the heart of the
conversation, another topic, that's actually when they have considered the conversation
over and have then headed into the kitchen for something to eat
or another drink or something like that.
They're like: oh okay, that was a lovely chat about the weather.
Catch ya later, Bob.
Which I find super, super fascinating, given that in the U.S. we have hurricanes, blizzards,
droughts, tornadoes, and more, and yet for the most part we basically dismiss conversations
about the weather as rather mundane. They're filler conversation topics.
Whereas in Germany, there's not usually anything too extreme going on weather-wise here.
It's warm in the summer, then there's fall, which feels like fall, then cold in
the winter, then spring, then back to summer.
This happens every year with small variations from year to year, of course, but basically
the same cycle over and over again.
And yet, the topic of the weather seems to be quite a beloved one here in Germany.
Whenever I get back from a vacation and I start to tell my German friends about it, one of
the very first questions that I so often get is "And how was the weather?"
Which, I totally get that the weather could definitely influence a vacation for sure,
but for some reason it's just not a question that I would usually think to ask.
I would probably ask about what they did on vacation and then from their answer, yeah,
I would incidentally probably end up finding out how the weather was, but it just probably
wouldn't be my main point of questioning.
Like, for example, if a friend of mine went to Florida in late March, I might ask them if they
went swimming in the ocean.
And then they would either tell me: "yes the water was lovely" or "no, it was still too cold."
And from that I would invariably know something about the weather in Florida.
But like I said, it probably wouldn't be the main thing that I was interested it.
I find it so, so, so funny, I will call my parents and chat on the phone with them for
like an hour and never, never once even think about asking them about the weather.
It just doesn't cross my mind.
But then I will get off the phone with my parents, and if I then end up chatting with
my German mother-in-law afterwards, and I mention that I just finished chatting with
my parents, nine times out of ten she will ask me: "Oh, and how's the weather there?"
What? Why in the world would I know the weather there?
I said that I talked to them, not that I went there.
She just assumed that if I chatted with my parents, I would of course definitely at some
point in the conversation ask about the weather.
No, really usually not.
I have no idea what the weather is like in Colorado now. No idea.
And also another super interesting thing that I've noticed is that both my mother-in-law
and Mr. German Man regularly check on the weather of where their friends are living
in the world.
It would never cross my mind to wake up and be like: hmmm I wonder how the weather is
where my parents are.
Unless, like I said, there was a hurricane or some other kind of extreme weather situation
going on; no, I don't think to check it.
And then I'll talk to my mother-in-law and she'll actually tell me: ahh I saw that
it was sunny at your parents.
All week long they've got lovely weather there.
And I'm like: oh nice! Thank you! Good to know.
I would have never thought to check.
So my question for you is: Do you love talking about the weather?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching. I really hope that you enjoyed this video.
If you enjoy these videos, please don't forget to subscribe to the channel, and hit that like button.
Thank you so much.
And also a really, really, really big thank you so much to our patrons on Patreon, who
help make these videos possible.
Thank you so much for your support.
If you would like to check out our Patreon page, you can find a link to that down in
the description box below.
Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
To ask them about the weather.
We're just...
It is either to bridge...
And also a really big. Oh, I missed the other part. Alright, forget it.
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Cafu - Final Draw Challenge - Duration: 1:33.
Let's see. If you could choose to replay
one FIFA World Cup game, which one would it be:
the loss to France in the final in 1998
or the 1-7 against Germany in 2014?
This one is very simple: I would prefer to replay the one in 1998 against France,
because I played in that match, unlike the one in 2014, in which I could not
have changed the result. I would have preferred to play and
have the opportunity to change the outcome of a situation for which I am to blame too,
and not for one I am not responsible at all like the 1-7. So I would choose the one in 1998.
Just so you see that this is all for real: but I will not answer this one,
since I already did the first! Let's see You can line up your perfect 11.
Who is the right back: Cafu or Dani Alves? Let's do it like this:
we play Dani Alves upfront, as a winger, and I play as a wingback,
right behind him.
You realise that I enjoy this game, don't you? I am good at answering questions.
See, how easy it is to answer them? All done!
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Gernot ROHR – Nigeria - Final Draw Reaction - Duration: 2:01.
Our group is a difficult group.
You know we are supposed to be the last
one because we are in pot number
four, so we have the first game against
Croatia who have a very good team, they play
good technical football. The second
game will be Iceland.
Iceland is a very strong team, also I
saw them in the European Championship,
they play very well, very strong football.
The last game is against Argentina so
it's already, again, the same because when
the last World Cup had already Argentina
Nigeria. We played them in a friendly but
it's not sure that we can have the same
result. You know, we played against
Argentina in Krasnodar in Russia and
they played without Messi so we know
that it's not easy to play against this
team, who is supposed to be number one in
our group. So yes, interesting also that
we have to start in Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad is the western side of Russia and
the time difference, then we go to Saint
Petersburg for the second game and the third
game will be in Volgograd, so we have
to travel a lot and have to choose a
good base camp to be not too far away
from these cities. Do you think that
Argentina are the favourites and you're in
second place? We hope, we hope, we hope. I
saw the the other group the other group
we finished second and if France is
first or we could have again last 16
game
France-Nigeria, like in Brazil. I hope
so, but will be very difficult because
Croatia and Iceland are very good teams
and Argentina is number four in the world.
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I'm so jet lagged... - Duration: 3:02.
Hey everyone! Dana here and I am so jet lagged.
We just got back to Germany from Florida on Saturday, today is Monday, and while on the
trip I took so many amazing video clips and I vlogged about the beach and my thoughts
about returning to Florida for the first time in a little over three years, and all the
while, all while I was doing that I was totally ambitiously thinking like, oh yes, I will
get back to Germany on Saturday and I will have plenty of time to edit that footage for
the Wednesday video.
Yeah, no.
From Saturday to Sunday we honestly slept about seventeen hours.
We were so tired on Saturday from all of the traveling that I kid you not, we fell asleep
at 6 p.m. and I could not manage to wake up until 1 p.m. the next day.
Like, it's not like I was just laying in bed relaxing. No.
I really could not force my eyes open until 1 p.m. the following day.
That was definitely the longest I've ever slept.
And so I'm just filming this now because there's no way that I can manage to edit that amazing
Florida footage by Wednesday.
I really want to give that video the editing attention that it deserves, and right now
I just still feel totally disoriented, and I'm hungry but I have zero appetite whatsoever.
It's really a confusing feeling.
I feel hungry on the one hand, but even just the thought of food turns my stomach.
And according to what I found online, jet lag symptoms can include disorientation -- check -- loss
of appetite -- check -- disturbed sleeping — either too much or too little sleeping — for me
it's too much, mild depression, mood changes, headaches and nausea, and so yeah, I would
say other than the headaches, which I don't seem to have, I've been experiencing all
of those other things, so I'm just not ready to dive right into the editing yet, but I
did just want to make this little short video to give a post-trip update.
So my question for you is: Have you experienced jet lag, when was it the worst, what do you
do to combat jet lag, and has anyone out there noticed that it's getting worse with age?
Like, I feel like I was much less susceptible to jet lag when I was 22, just throwing that out there.
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching!
Hopefully I will be back with a "normal" video soon.
Until next time, auf Wiedersehen.
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Hector CUPER – Egypt - Final Draw Reaction - Duration: 2:07.
You've been drawn in the same group as
the hosts. What's your verdict?
I think it'll be competitive all round.
We're all raring to go
and no one can say they've got an easier
or tougher draw, because it's all about
competing as best you can, and like I said
previously, every team
poses difficulties in football and anyone
who thinks they've got it easy
is making a big mistake, in my view. It's
never easy in a competition
featuring the best
national teams in the world.
I enjoyed the draw
because that's what this competition is about.
You can avoid Brazil, on the one hand
but then you draw the likes of Russia.
Anyway, we'll compete the same way
and here's hoping things go
well for us.
What's your view of the teams you're up against?
As for our draw,
we know all about Uruguay's qualities.
They've improved a lot as a team
and they had a very good qualifying
campaign. They've got great firepower up front
in [Edinson] Cavani and [Luis] Suarez.
Russia will be playing on home turf
which adds an extra ingredient, because
the hosts always have
special motivation.
They've got a good team, too.
Saudi Arabia are in a similar boat
to us; we're both going to have to
really dig deep to match
the level of the other teams.
Are you optimistic after
the draw?
I'm always optimistic
regardless of what happens in
draws, because that's the attitude
that coaches and teams
should always adopt and it's the
emotion generated by playing in a World Cup.
So, irrespective of our capabilities
and the opponents we're up against
I'm always optimistic.
It's that simple.
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