Kultur 10, Aubrey

Well  I jut finished watching "Dinner for Who?" and rather enjoyed it. The butler was certainly a good and entertaining actor. But I never really could stand slapstick comedy that just repeats itself, especially for 10 minutes.... and in my opinion, they didn't do the punchline well and no one laughed. But I suppose tradition is tradition is tradition no matter how little sense it makes.

I actually am very happy to here that Germany is strict on their no business on Sunday policy. In my hometown, competitions, sports, and meetings are often scheduled on Sundays— even more so here in Ann Arbor where there are far less church goers. I often find my Sundays full of running about in a car.  Sometimes, school activities even got in the way of church and overall my peaceable time with family was basically non existant (unless my dad forced me to stay home and carry firewood haha). Anyway, I knows it's inconvenient to our increasingly liberal, bustling lives, but I hope Germany can retain Sunday laws for as long as possible. When I experienced this in Italy, it was more enjoyable than inconvenient.

For some reason, I find the German Father's Day to be hilarious... and I bet guys have a lot more fun than guys in America. Hey! I'll be in Germany during Father's Day, so I can see what it's actually like (though I'll be in a relatively small town.)

As for Christmas in Germany— I hope that I can experience this someday. I appreciate that they try to keep the market and stall displays from being "tacky" and especially love the idea of live performers for music.

I chose to look at Geneva on the travel website. It is absolutely gorgeous: in the winter it looks like it came straight of of LOTR and in the spring/summer it looks almost like Italy! I also looked at Bern and loved its cathedral, trees, and beautiful architecture in genera.