Christmas Market
I was in many of the Christmas Market in Berlin throughout the past weekend. It was fun and nice to see the things. I went to the Spandau Weihnachtmarkt, Opern Palais Weihnachtmarkt, Ku´damm Weihnachtmarkt, Alexanderplatz Weihnachtmarkt… lol… there are too many of them here in Berlin. Well, most people know, there´s these roasted almond… hmm… with so many types of flavour, the thick chocolate kisses with creams inside, popcorn, lebkuchen aka Gingerbread and so much more… I had tasted the almond… it is really GREAT especially if the store sells fresh roasted with sugar coating, and you will have a warm hand when walking around the market. Of course, there´s the huge christmas tree all over the places… I love it a lot… and in the christmas market in Spandau and Opern Palais, there´s the christmas scene in it… the one in Spandau attracts me a lot because they have real donkeys and sheep walking around the manger. It was fantastic…
it was cold and rainy (typical Berlin weather in Winter… as Berlin is a big town, so it was too hot for snowing… 
lol…) well, it was really nice and really warmth… I like most of the things there… for those people who like ferries wells there are them… and some other stuffs… which attract people to go there…
As from what I heard from our teacher, Christmas in Germany is for family and to celebrate the birth of Christ even for none Christians. And it is really a festival of light and I know about it better right now because of the environment goes dark at around 4pm, yes, you get it right, at 4pm… and also, Advent, it is really important here… people buying an advent stand with candles (4 of them) and light it in the evening from the first sunday before Christmas until the 4th sunday before Christmas (of course, for those of you who had been to Catholic churches, you should know about it) and also, Advent calender, a calender from 1 to 24 wrote on it and you are suppose to open one each day from the first of December until the 24th of December. there are many types of them… from those typical card until those with chocolate inside (from Milka, Lindt, Ferrero and all other chocolate company)
this coming thursday is the Nikolaitag, which is where all those Santa originate… it is from a German legend of this St. Nikolaus who gave candies, chocolate and all those sweet stuffs. The original was that he gave the poor children who doesn´t have much for Winter and for Christmas… so, those of you who think santa and Christmas have something to do and gifts, then you are wrong… it was commercialized by Coca-cola company with Santa but the original form is Nikolaus as what the Germans celebrate… and on a day before this day, the children will clean their shoes and set before door or at the doorway and if they are good throughout the year then they will get candies and if they´re not, they´ll get something that´s not so good… hehe…