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Bruchsal, Germany - 20th December 2011
By: fam-united
While our host was teaching at school, it started to snow. We asked her to go out with us, but she said, that the snow is rather wet and that it isn't nice outside. Nevertheless she took some photos with me to show the roofs covered with some snow.
Here you see the two towers of the church St. Peter.
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Posted Dec 20, 2011, 3:34 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 25th December 2011
By: fam-united
Today we helped to cook again. We had lamb, dumplings, vegetables (carrots, onions, oranges and dates) with red pepper pearls. It tasted very very fine, although it was a diet recipe - without the dumplings.
Then everyone went away and we were alone at home. We prepared everything for dinner: raclette. Look at this amount of black olives.
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Posted Dec 29, 2011, 1:48 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 26th December 2011
By: fam-united
Today we went to Petra's parents in law to celebrate Christmas with them and her husbands' sisters families. We saw some nice angels and another beautiful Christmas tree.
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Posted Dec 31, 2011, 2:56 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 1st January 2012
By: fam-united
Happy New Year
We celebrated with friends and had a lot of fun. At midnight we watched the fireworks.
I'm sorry, it was really difficult to take a nice photo. This one isn't really a nice one.
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Posted Jan 2, 2012, 3:43 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 4th January 2012
By: fam-united
In the evening we went to take the stars from a storeroom of the church, where our hosts belong to. Petra takes care for the stars, which will be carried around by the starsingers on 6th January. Some of the stars are old, some don't look nice anymore, so Petra creates new covers and we decided to help her today.
Here you see a star, that still looks nice. Nevertheless it isn't, if you take a closer look. Last year it rained a lot and the star got wet. Now you can see white glue running down, where it should be only clear yellow. Some said, that it doesn't matter, but our host didn't like it and she asked us to cut out new yellow transparent paper and a new black star silhouette.
We didn't like the yellow side of this star, so we decided to spray it bronze and cut out a new yellow transparent paper and black star silhouette too.
We had to work really hard.
We also didn't like these two stars and we had to throw one into the bin, because it was broken on the back totally.
Then we had to outline the first star on the transparent paper.
Priscilla helped to cut it out.
But it was rather difficult for her, so Lintilla offered to help her.
While we worked, we found some marzipan potatoes.
Although the others tried to speak really low, because I had been fallen asleep in their back. You know, that I always run to get it, if I see something to eat.
They should have known it better, too. Of course I also feel, if something to eat is around. I jumped up and caught the marzipan potatoes in the same second. Only Lintilla seemed to take no notice of it.
Proud me! The others tried to keep calm down and go on with their work. They had to outline the black star now.
They seems disappointed, that I didn't help them.
But to their surprise, I was the one, who asked them, if they would allow me to cut out the black star silhouette.
It was really difficult, but I had been the one, who knew, how to do it.
And yeah, it just looks great. Now I can be really proud.
But, oh dear, we had done a mistake, when we outlined the yellow star. It was the wrong side of the paper and so the star didn't fit perfectly to the wooden star. We were very disappointed.
We had to cut out another yellow star and black star silhouette, which fit perfectly then.
Then we had a break and read the newspapers. We read, that Wulff is the Federal President and that there are some problems, but they aren't really interesting for toyvoyagers. But it was really interesting for us, that they wrote about a storm, which should hit Germany soon - no toyvoyager weather
For me it was interesting to see a photo of the wife of Baden-Württembergs Minister-President Kretschmann. I read, that she doesn't want to be called a First Lady. I did want to read this whole news article, but the others didn't and so we went on to the next page.
We saw a photo with a little bit of snow. Wow, there's snow somewhere in Germany.
But then we turned to read the Bruchsal news and the first thing we saw, what a nice bird singing and a pussy willow blooming. It seems like springtime here.
Did you know, that petrol in Germany is that expensive? I'm not sure, because we didn't know about this. Diesel costs between 1,37 Euro and 1,48 Euro, which means between 1,8092 US-Dollar and 1,9544 US-Dollar. It would be interesting to know, how expensive it is in other countries.
On Karlsruhe page on the right we read about a big construction area, where they build a new way for the city tram.
Here is an interesting page. It shows items, which you can buy in the newspaper shop. They sell items of Baden. Maybe we should go there and take a look, but surely they will cost some money.
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Posted Jan 27, 2012, 9:29 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 5th January 2012
By: fam-united
I like this Christmas decoration on the window. It's on the same place each year. If you like it too and want the originals to cut them out for yourself, please send a note to Petra.
It's a nice place for us toyvoyagers, too. It is warm and you can see everything that's going on on the street
The first photo is without flash, just to show you, how dark it is outside although it is early midday. If Petra hasn't done a mistake, then there are 26 toyvoyagers sitting together. Some are her toyvoyagers, some her daughters and some are rescued toyvoyagers, which still are at her place and of course some are guests, who will move on again.
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Posted Jan 28, 2012, 10:18 am
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Bruchsal, Germany - 5th January 2012
By: fam-united
After the big group photo session we finished the stars.
The other toyvoyagers were really curious and came to take a look at the beautiful stars.
Later a group of starsingers visited our house, but we just had been too slow, so we aren't on this photo. Nevertheless we thougth, that it is a good idea to show you, how starsingers can look like. They don't carry one of our stars, though. They belong to the church region, were our hosts live, but our hosts go to another church, where they lived before. It's a bit complicated
In the afternoon we all helped our Petra to bake two cakes. She told us, that tomorrow isn't only Epiphany, but also her husbands 50th birthday and that we will go to the parish hall and carry cakes with us. At first we baked a Hermann cake. It is a cake like a round robin, that's how it seems for me. Petra told us, that she received a part of the cake a few days ago and that she had to stir it and to feed it and that now it is ready to get baken. Of course we added some more stuff like flour, sugar, almonds, cinnamon, chocolate pieces.
We read the recipe.
Then we had to get some more dishes for the "kids" of this cake.
We had been really busy.
We also added some apple pieces.
We wondered, if this dish would be big enough and decided, that it wasn't. So we took a star for the dough of Hermann.
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Posted Jan 28, 2012, 10:53 am
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