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March 03, 2003
Helau Europe
Helau Europe! Today is Rose-Monday here in Germany (Rosenmontag) and the height of Carnival festivities. People get dressed up in funny clothes and walk around the streets and - later - the pubs doing funny things. I try to ignore everything. Every town or area has their own "carnival shout" - ranging from "Helau" and "Alaaf" to other incantations you don't really want to know about and which will not give you any better grades when you take your next German exam. All the carnival raving will be over on Wednesday and then hopefully the spirits of Winter will be so scared that they will not return again this season. And if I was a Winter spirit I would long be in Auckland by now.
Posted by Matthew at March 3, 2003 11:03 AM