Day: January 13, 2020

This Christmas was a bit different from others, and was very low key. The new year was also different, but much much bigger. At Christmas we all got ?Candy?, and a few other things in the stocking. Nate and I got phones!!(☎️) I also discovered I like Calligraphy. There was no excitement from other houses on Xmas.
Very, very quiet.
New Year. We were watching a thing in Berlin, but we got shoes on and went outside. We lit sparklers. But at midnight the entire valley was launching fireworks, and some one was out launching them every few houses. It sounded like we were walking through a minefield. We saw some friendly neighbors out having a drink to. They went full speed until about one, and then slowed down. The fireworks I mean not the drinks.

On Saturday, we went to Jena and Weimar. Jena is a large university town, and Weimar is where the Weimar Republic, the government of Germany between the World Wars, was based. Weimar was also the home of Goethe, an author, and Schiller, a playwright.

Jena still has some remnants of the old city wall, including the Johannistor, which is the only remaining gate. It’s said that for students, walking through the Johannistor brings bad luck on exams.

Weimar was an interesting place to go. There were quite a few open pedestrian areas that didn’t seem to have a border with actual roads and many of the squares had grilled bratwurst stands.

Weimar is also where the Bauhaus art style started. Bauhaus places priority on utility and is similar to modernism. There is a Bauhaus museum in Weimar, but we didn’t visit it because we were getting tired of walking around.

Last Saturday we went to Jena and Weimar. That was very interesting, because Mom had already been there, and knew, sort of, her way around. It was very fun.