February | 2007 | indigolady's Xanga Site

Fasching
in Germany is the same as Carnivale in Italy or Mardi Gras in New
Orleans and is celebrated in almost every European country.
Almost everywhere, Catholic or not, some type of celebrating goes on in
the week leading up to Lent culminating in one final night of craziness
before Ash Wednesday. In fact the week proceeding Lent is
called crazy days. Here in little ol’ Lampertheim they had a
parade and then after that everyone went to the fussganger (pedestrian
zone) and there was a small show consisting of a couple of bands and
some local kids performing. It was fun, but way tamer that what
goes on in the bigger cities. Here’s some pictures from our local
festivities. First some from the parade then some of people having fun
at the show. What I like about it is the costumes, we Americans really
only get one night a year to dress up, Halloween. Even then, if your an
adult people look at you funny unless your going to a party or your in
costume because its what they do, where you work. But during
Fasching you can dress up every day during crazy days and people just
think you like to have fun. If we lived here I could have a great
time with the Fasching costumes, as it stands everything we buy has to
either be mailed home at high cost or given away, so most of the time I
don’t bother with buying things like this, I just go and watch everyone
else.