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It’s my party and I’ll wein if I want to…
Hello out there in Verständnis World. I hope you’re all enjoying the rapid onset of my very first European summer. Well, today you have even more reason to celebrate, as it’s my birthday! While I’m not celebrating it in traditional NZ style – with fairy bread and cheerio sausages, and a game of pass-the-parcel, I’m not quite up to the stage of having a German-style birthday. No-one is waking up at sunrise to light a candle for each year I’ve been alive, and I don’t have a special wooden birthday wreath.
But then again, there’s an up side to everything. I’m glad I’m not an unmarried German man turning 30, because then I’d be forced to sweep the stairs of the town hall. Although I’m told this is for the purposes of showing off his house-cleaning skills to potential brides who happen to be walking past, and not to humiliate. Yeah right!
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Belated happy birthday!
Hope you could still enjoy it, chin up
Herzlichen Glueckwunsch Miss V! (still missing the Umlaut on this keyboard here)
The fairy bread is not meant for eating, isn’t it? Looks, ehm…crunchy.
By the way, women, 30 years old and still unmarried need to clean door handles (aka ‘Klinken putzen’). But it is not as common as the men’s sweeping job…and not as much fun.
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happy clappy birthday
Oh, you’re born in July, too? What a coincidence – happy birthday then.
You have a list of quite antique customs there. I didn’t even know that someone was to wake me up next monday and present me with 31 candles on a cake, and in fact such a thing has neither happened ever in my life nor has anyone ever mentioned anything like that in my presence – though I’d say I have some experience being German. I guess it depends on the area where you’re from. Hamburg traditions are of course totally different from Saarland traditions.