The last two nights I was invited out to the birthday parties for two different co-workers. Germany birthday parties are really really really great for essentially two reasons.
1. It is customary for the birthday-ee to pay for the tab for the night. Which of course makes absolutely no sense to me. On your birthday you buy everyone else's drinks? Absurd.
2. Germans sing "Happy Birthday." Like, the English version that we sing. And this is great for the sole reason that the "TH" sound is essentially impossible for Germans to say. It doesn't exist to them. [SIDENOTE: I am in no way making fun of German accents. I truly delight in them. And for how many times they laugh at my mispronunciations (lovingly of course) and make me read out loud in order to practice, I am totally allowed to do this.] Anyways, at midnight everyone bursts out singing "Happy Birthday" but it essentially goes "Happy birtay to ya, Happy birtay to ya..." and so on. They also play this ridiculously annoying song at midnight that essentially goes "Happy Birthday to ya. It is your birthday" over and over again. Yet, they all love it and go crazy.
Germany is fun.
Here is the facebook link for some pictures I just put up. It is a public link, you don't need to be on facebook to look through it.
Amy Goes to Germany: Praktikum
You are aloud to do that.
ReplyDeleteYou are allowed to do that.
Which one would you choose? I think all the German speaking is getting to you Amy. Haha, but luckily you won't be there for your birthday!