blog 41

One culture that has intrigued me since I was younger has always been the German culture.  My family is half German so obviously my family is richly influenced by the Germanic traditions.  We always hide the pickle in the tree, we put our shoes out on St. Nicholas day, we make all the traditional foods, etc.  In eight grade, the students could pick which language they would like to study and naturally I chose to study the German language.  I loved it because the Germanic language is very similar to the English language (it was very easy) and also, some of their towns have been around for thousands of years and their buildings are still structurally sound.  It really makes me wonder why our dorms have to be remodeled after only 40 years of use.  Also, they have parades where they wear special costumes every year and that really intrigues me because I always wondered how they began those traditions.  I don’t really have much more to say about Germany just because I stopped learning about it when I came to college.  I really wished I would have continued and gotten a minor, but that was simply too much work.  So now, I’d like to talk abut palmer fest and the craziness that was entailed.  The people who go to OU are nuts and start drinking at noon! I’ve never seen more alcoholics in my life.  Also,  three of my friends got arrested.  Safe to say, it was a good weekend J