Alycia CP #4

Date/Time: June 3, 2018 2pm - 7pm
Location: Madison Social
Topic discussed: Christmas
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: 

While Nadine and I were out, we got onto the topic of holidays in Germany. Nadine's father is actually moving back to Germany for work in a few weeks, so her and her mother are planning on going over there to spend the holidays with him and their family in Germany. She told me that it has been a while since she was able to celebrate Christmas in Germany, and an equally long time since she was able to spend the holidays with family beyond her parents. The thing she is looking forward to the most are the Christmas Markets - they are in most every city. They sell the hot red wines and giant gingerbread hearts that you can wear as a necklace. It is basically Oktoberfest but for Christmas. I found this really exciting because Christmas has always been a very big holiday in my family. We always decorated our house and yard like the people on those tv shows about Christmas light extravaganzas. This also made me realize how hard my first Christmas will probably be in Korea because I probably won't be able to fly back home.

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