Parties
are
our
Life
Hello!
These are our texts of the E-mail Project with other countries. Please continue
reading and have fun if you can! See you
Raving
Bunnys
Hi!
We're five bunnys. If you want to know something about us, continue reading. We
are all different and we're good friends, but we prefer to call each
other sisters.
Our second bunny is Inga, who is a crazy girl. With her you can have a lot of
fun. With her you laugh a lot. She loves jokes. Inga is 14 years old. Our third
bunny is Verena and she has only boys in her head. With her the lessons become
more exciting. Verena is nearly 15 years old.
Our fourth bunny Ina. She is a girl that laughs very much. She hates speaking
about her problems. She likes to cracking jokes. Ina is 15 years old.
And now last but not least our fifth bunny Rieke. She is a very sporty, crazy
and not to forget a funny girl. Her big blue eyes look like the Atlantic Ocean.
Rieke is 15 years old.
So, you see with all of us you can have a lot of fun. That's why we called
ourselves "Raving Bunnys"!! Our favourite word is
"Pfoetchen". You can ask us why "Pfoetchen" is our favourite
word to say!!
Bye the Raving Bunnys
Michaela, Rieke, Ina, Verena and Inga
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Raving Bunny's!!!!!! My name is Brianna not to be confused with Bri
(Brianna also) even though she be one of my friends. I am gonna be 14 in
like a week and a half so lets just say I'm 14, and I go to Alderwood Middle.
So, sup!!! I read your intro thingy and you sounded cool to me so now I be
writing u. So you know your aren't the only ones with a group. Me
and my friends are crazy too.
My friend Bri always talks like Michaela and she is boy crazy about Richard her
boy like Verena; I am crazy like Inga (I really like your name by the way) and
so are my friends Nytascha and Robyn; and Jennifer seems like Verena.
So, I am sorta short on time here so I've go to go. But hit me back just
to chat, and I will talk, er type, ya later!!!!
BYEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace!!!!! And all that other stuff!!!
~$Brianna$~
P.S. What
does pfoetchen mean? ;-}
Hi Brianna and friends!
How are you? I'm (Inga) fine and the other bunnys, too! Oh, I see that you are
14 years old but how old are your friends?? In which grade are you at school? We
all are in the ninth grade. What are you doing a whole day long in the USA? What
are you hobbies?? Yes you see we are a very crazy group. Do you have any parties
in the USA?? Two weeks ago there was the Octoberfest in Schortens. Schortens is
a little town with 21.000 inhabitants. The Octoberfest is a festival and we had
a lot of fun. Do you have big festivals in Washington?? I'm interested in that
thing: What are you cooking for meal?? I think when we hear the word USA nearly
everyone thinks that you eat only fastfood every day. Is it so? I hope you
will write us again because I must stop now. And what PFÖTCHEN means.....I will
explain it to you an other time.
See you soon
Bye Love Peace and Soul the Raving Bunny Inga ( this name comes from Norway!)
PS: I also like you name Brianna, it sounds cool!!!
Dear Inga from Germany,
My name is Savannah and I am an eighth grader at Alderwood Middle School in
Lynnwood Washington, USA. You sound like an awesome person to hang out with! By
the way, what does Moin, Moin mean? Everyone here is dying to know.
So, what is living in Germany like? Where is the North Sea? Do you
like to shop, because it is my all time number 1 hobby!
What do you think you would like in the welcome packs? It would be really
tyte (slang for cool) if we got some clothing catalogs or something from you
guys. Do your parents cook awesome meals? I would love to try some
of the food from Germany. My mouth is already watering! Do you like
to shop on the internet? If u do, I could give u some great sites for
clothes.
Talk 2 u lata (If u respond =) Savannah
Dear Savannah!
I start this e-mail with explaining the words Moin moin. Moin moin is our way to
say hello. It means hello, hi or something else like this. How old are you?
The North Sea is in the north of germany.
I will explain it later because it’s difficult to explain where it
is. Yes, I like shopping but i don't do that very often. My mother cooks
for our family every day. I have two brothers and one sister. My sister is a
stewerdess and 24 years old und my brothers are 19 and 23 years old. Do you have
a sister or a brother? What’s the weather like in the USA?? Now it’s raining
and it’s very very cold outside. I look into catalogues and then I order the
clothes on the internet. But I don't want to call this shopping in the internet.
Hm...the German food does not taste really good. I don't know special German
food. My mother comes from Scotland and so she often cooks Scottish. So I'm a
half Scottish and half German. I am a ninth grader at the Mariengymnasium Jever.
My hobby number one is bowling. I do bowling in a club which is called
Heidmuehler FC. Do you go bowling in the USA?? And is there a great
bowlingcenter in Washington?? Sorry, but I can't give you an answer to every
question!
See you soon Bye Inga
Parties are our life
I think that now there’re
no teenagers that have never been on any private party. If somebody’s parents
go away 4 all night, a teenager invites all his friends ( So usually a great
crowd of people comes). If a party has no beer or other alcohol drinks, this
party sucks. Beer is the symbol of every party. Some people smoke on parties.
There’re no parties without music, and music must be as loud as it is
possible. The main thing is to make a great noise.
There are a lot of festivals in
our country, because of a great number of nationalities living in Kazakhstan.
There are more than 100 nationalities in our country: Russians, Kazakh,
Ukraines, Germans, Chinese and Koreans… When each nationality celebrates its
own festival for a long time, sooner or later it becomes a common festival and
people of other nationalities start to celebrate it too. Otherwise every
festival in our country is celebrated like a native one.
When the USSR stopped their
existence and our country became an independent one, some festivals were changed
to new ones, but people continue to celebrate old festivals till nowadays ( in
addition to new festivals).
I think that the most important
festival in our country is the New Year, because of it’s spreadness. Every one
in our country has a lot of fun on the 31st of December and 1st
of January, but in addition to the New Year we have the second holiday - the old
New Year which we celebrate on the 14th of January (the 14th
of January was the day of celebrating New Year according to the old calendar. I
don’t know why people still go on celebrating both holidays, may be it is not
enough to have only one New Year but I can’t complain, because I really like
to celebrate our New Years). Then in spring we usually celebrate Maslenitsa. On
this festival people celebrate the end of winter in our region. At Maslenitsa it
is the tradition to eat pancakes because it’s the symbol of the sun.
Maslenitsa is a Russian festival. Kazakh equivalent of Maslenica is Nauryz, and
we celebrate it, too. I’m convinced that everyone in our country doesn’t
mind having two types of one
festival.
There are a lot of festivals in
our country and we can write you endlessly about them, that is why we have just
described you the main ones.
Ibragimov Yadykar, Filatov Zhenya.
We're
going to write about the festival of "Neo-Rooz"(Persian New Year
Celebrations).
The greatest Persian festival"Neo-Rooz" celebrates the coming of
spring by Iranian. "Noe" in the Persian language means "new"
and "Rooz" means "day", therefore, Noe-Rooz means New Day.
Noe-Rooz occurs exactly when the length of night and day are equal, which is the
beginning of spring.Noe-Rooz does not fall on the same day each year but moves
between March 19th and 22nd in the Christian calendar.
To the Iranians, Noe-Rooz is much more than just a New Year's celebration, and
throughout the centuries its spirit has helped them through hardship and strife
during war and foreign occupation.
Noe-Rooz is a huge family celebration, and Iranians return to their hometowns to
celebrate the New Year with their relatives and friends.
The New Year's ceremonies and traditions:
Haji Firooz
Wearing black make up and a red dress, Haji Firooz sings and dances through the
streets with tambourines and trumpets spreading the news of the coming New Year.
Chahar Shanbeh Soori(The Fire Day)
It's the last Wendesday of the year. On this magical night, families gather
piles of brush or wood, make big fires in public places and jump over the fires
shouting:
"Give me your vibrant red hue, and take back my sickly yellow pallor!"
We have a kind of special dessert(dried fruit), that it calls "AJILL".
AJIL is made from somethings like pistachioes, currants, figs, peas, almonds,
filberts and etc...
According to tradition, the living are visited by the spirit of their ancestors
on the last days of the year, and many children wrap themselves in shrouds,
symbolically reenacting the visits. They also run through the streets banging on
pots and pans with spoons and knocking on doors to ask for treats and symbolizes
the beating out of the last unlucky Wednesday of the year.
The Renewal
In parallel with the rebirth of nature, extensive spring-cleaning is a national
tradition seen in almost every household in Iran. This is also customary that
each person to buy at least one set of new clothes. On the New Year's day,
families dress in thei r new clothes and start the twelve-day celebrations by
visiting the elders of their family, then the rest of their family and finally
their friends. On the thirteenth day families leave their homes and picnic
outdoors.
Haft Seen(Seven S's")
Haft Seen is the setting of the table or spread with an arrangement of several
items of which seven of them start with the Persian letter Seen (in English S).
The Persian translation for the number seven is "Haft", and,
"Haft Seen" means "Seven S's". It i s customary for the
family to gather round the Haft Seen spread a few hours before the New Year and
recite poems from Hafez and verses from the Holy Koran. At the exact moment of
the New Year, the oldest person in the family continues the traditions by hu
gging and wishing each member well and offering sweets, pastries, and coins.
Banknotes are sometimes placed between the pages of the Holy Koran to bless them
before they are given to the younger members of the family.
The Haft Seen spread
includes seve n of the following items:
Sabzeh - wheat or lentils grown in a tray or dish prior to Noe-Rooz to represent
rebirth,
Samanu - a sweet pudding made from wheat germ, symbolizing affluence,
Senjed - the dried fruit of the lotus tree which represents love,
Seer - which means garlic in Persian, and represents medicine,
Seeb - which means apple in Persian, and represents beauty and health,
Somaq - sumac berries, which represent the colour of the sun rise,
Serkeh - which means vinegar in Persian, and represents age and patience,
Sonbol - the hyacinth flower with its strong fragrance heralding the coming of
spring, and
Sekkeh - coins representing prosperity and wealth.
New Year's Dishes
The New Year's day traditional meal is called Sabzi Polo Mahi, which is rice
with green herbs served with fish.
Seezdah Bedar
Noe-Rooz lasts twelve days and the thirteenth day represents the time of chaos
when families put order aside and avoid the bad luck associated with the number
thirteen by going outdoors and having picnics and parties
Soheila & Anahita
Tehran, Iran
Parties are our life!
Give us answers to: Love, friends and Singleparties
Hi
you!
We want to talk about the theme love, friends and singleparties. Love is very
important to the youth in Germany. Statistics show that the first love begins at
the age of 13 or 14 years. But it can be also different. These are only
statistics.
When you fall in love with a boy or girl you think you are the happiest boy or
girl all over the world. You recognize the love to somebody when you have a nice
feeling in your bottom or in your whole body. Most you fall in love when you
have a few similarities with the
boy or girl you like when you love
the same music etc.
When you are 12 or 13 you meet your boy or girl friend often at school. But when
you are a little bit older, for example 16 or 17 you meet your girl or boy
friend in the disco or at parties. Often the people who you love hate you.Then
you have bad feelings.You aren't happy. Do you know this feeling???? You think
you would be alone for your whole life. But remember it isn’t so. Love is a
very nice thing and you have to be careful with it.
Maybe you are a single. But this doesn’t matter because there are a lot of
single parties. They are very funny and exciting. At a single party you can meet
nice boys and girls. Maybe there is someone for you and you fall in love with
her or him ?! You don’t have to give up. Some time the right one will come
along.
Society is sometimes very strong with some relationships....sometimes a boy
loves a boy or a girl loves a girl... and these people aren't popular in their
society.
There are many important und popular people who out themselves as homosexual. We
think that is cool from this people. Of course, you have to respect them because
they are also people.
So please answer these questions and write back:
Did you ever fall in love?
Did you ever go to a singleparty? And if you did what was it like?
Is there someone in you relation or friendship who is a boy and loves a boy or
who is a girl and loves a girl?
Is love important to you?
What do you think about homosexuals?
See you soon
Bye the Raving_Bunnys
Rieke, Verena, Ina and Inga
Hi Ina from Germany! ,
I read that you like to laugh a lot. Well guess what, I like to laugh a lot too
and don't worry I don't like to admit I have a problem either. Just to let you
know my name is Dianna from Washington. As much as I like to laugh, I like to
hang out and fool around with my friends and talk in my free time. Oh yeah I'm
13 years old. So it'll be fun to write back to each other and I look forward to
your response!
Bye! Dianna
PS: Hope you had a wonderful break J
hi dani...
how old are you?? germany isn't as cool as you think... sometimes it’s boring
here... i would love to live in america ;)
the others have said i have only boys in my mind... i don't think so....:) we
have mc donalds, coca cola, pepsi, burger king and something like these in
germany too. but if you eat too much of this you get a bad body... that isn’t
nice.... i go dancing twice a week and my hobbies are: meeting friends....
chilling in the sun, party, playing beach volleyball and having fun... and which
areyour hobbies? i think our fashions aren’t as cool as the fashions in
america... i prefer the hiphop style because i listen to hiphop... what music do
you listen to??? pfoetchen...i don’t know why it’s our favourite word;)
sorry...
have you got a picture of yourself? what are your hobbies?
Verena Erb
Hi Raving_Bunnys
We have enclosed some pictures of Persian New Year Celebrations the first one is
Haji Firooz(Wearing black make up and a red dress spreading the news of the
coming New Year.
The second one "Sabzeh and flowers to welcome spring"
The other one is Haft Seen(seven S's)
The last one is the Picnic and games on Seedzdah Bedar (The thirteenth day
celebrations)
Soheila & Anahita
Festivals
Hiiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaa Inga and, of course, the other bunny's! How's
it going? Fine I hope, cuz' I am doing just fine. So yeah I'm 14, er
I will be on Friday (happy birthday to me) and some of my friends are 14, but
most of them haven't had their b-days yet so they're still 13. We are all
in the 8th grade, so you guys, er sorry, girls are older than us but no big.
There are lots of festivals in Washington. We've got Bumbershoot, Salty
Sea Days, lots of different 4th of July things, Frightfest for Halloween at
WildWaves (summer theme park), and those are all I can think of at the moment.
We also have two major fairs every
year, one is the Puyallup and the other is The Evergreen State Fair (the
Evergreen State is Washington). And NO, we do not eat fast food all
day every day. That would be so gross. Everyone would be fat and
greasy and bleh (lol)! Most
people eat whatever they want for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I will
tell you what kind of things we eat in my next letter thingy.
So buh-byez, ttyl, peace, see ya, and all that good stuff!!!!! Oh yeah!!!!
Write/type me back!!!!!
Hi
Jordan!!!
At first I’d like to tell you about our Christmas....
From the the first December on we have a little calendar with 24 doors and every
morning in December we can open a door so the time of waiting for "
Heiligabend" (Christmas Eve) is not so long... Sometimes in the door there
are pictures but mostly there are little sweets. I have a calendar with a bag
and my mother puts sweets into the calendar every morning
On the 6th December is " Nikolaus" (Santa Claus is coming), then (5th
December) we put a plate on our window-sill and the " Nikolaus" comes
in the night and puts a chocolate "nikolaus“, nuts, other sweets or
sometimes a tangerine onto the plate... And when we wake up the plate is full of
sweets and other things.
But now I would tell you about our " Heiligabend" (Christmas Eve)
which is the 24th December.
In the morning my father buys a fir-tree and sometimes the fir-tree looks very
crooked and ugly. After it my mother is very angry. But fortunately it doesn’t
happen very often that my father buys an ugly tree. And I hope he buys the best
tree for us this year. Then we set up the tree in our sitting room.
Later we, that is my brothers and I, we may decorate the fir-tree. It looks very
nice. Most families use electric lights for the trees but we use real candles. I
know it is a little bit dangerous but it looks better, I think.
In the afternoon we go to church, and only my father and my grandfather stay at
home. After church we go home. Often it is usually 19.00 clock. When we arrive
at home Father Christmas has been in our sitting room. And all the present lie
under the tree. Yes, it looks very nice. In the background you can hear the
Christmas music. And I look at the tree and of course the lights are burning. I
like this moment in my life and I smell Christmas in the air and I am very happy
that I have a very super family. Yes, Christmas is a very special celebration.
Now I like to know our Christmas festival. I hope you can write to me about your
celebration???
What is different and what do you find better in the USA???
I hope you’ll write back soon!!!
Friederike Moritz
Hi Verena & Ina!
Thank a lot for your warm message.
I must tell you that in Iran Chrismas is mainly celebrated by our christian
countrymen and if we have christian friends we will give them prsents or send
them postcards. In shop windows decorated pine-trees and Father Chrimmas can be
seen. I don't know about special chrismas dishes.
Regard Soheila
We want to tell you about the "Breakfast Party", here breakfast
doesn't mean the meal eaten in the morning. This party is held in the evening.
During the holy moth of Ramazan Moslems fast it means that they don't eat
anything from about an hour before the sunrise until the sunset. Then after the
sunset they can break their fast. A lot of parties are held during this month
and people invite their relatives and friends to the parties in which they break
their fast together and stay with each other until midnight. Some public parties
are also held in which a lot of different people take part. In these parties
there are no music, dance or drink. People usually pray and read our holy book
"Quran". Last week we has a breakfast party in our school. We
had a good time with our friends and ate a lot of delicious food.
bye, Nasrin, Zeinab & Raheleh
Hi Soheila and Anihita,
A lot of thanks for your mail with the great pictures. We try to take the
pictures into our homepage... but we want to find pictures of our festivals,
too, and then you can see what party means in germany...i try to take photos of
new year’s eve. do you have a big new year’s eve party? does alcohol play a
big role for celebrations? In a few days it's christmas! have you bought all
presents for your family? Presents are the best of christmas ;) and I think that
most of the children in germany think so too. But it's nice to be with your
family, too. have you got a big meal at christmas? what do you give your
family and friends? what's the popular christmas song in Teheran?
kisses from
Verena and Ina from the Raving_bunnys
Hi, Inga!
I’m so pleased that you’ve written a letter to us. It was very interesting
to know how you celebrate Christmas. And I’ll try to answer your question.
Actually, in our country nobody celebrates Christmas, I think it’s because of
different religions. But I’d like to tell you about New Year which is totally
celebrated in our country. This New Year I decided to celebrate with my
classmates, because it’s the last year of my studying in school. This New Year
will be just in 25 days, that is why I’ll describe you my past New Year which
I spent with my school friends, too.
We agreed where we should meet. I reached Jora’s (he’s my classmate) house,
there were already a couple of boys. Then we went to the shop and bought all
that we needed. A boy whose name is Denis offered us his flat for celebration.
When we arrived, we started preparing meals for our party. Then nearly at 9
o’clock our patience disappeared and we began to celebrate New Year. At 11
o’clock light alcohol and good mood gave us extra-strength and we continued
our party with a loud music and mad dances. Then we decided to stop for a while.
We started watching TV(especially New Year’s programs, they were: «Operation Ы», «Dog Barbos» and so on, nobody wanted to
watch them only I did) and drinking tea. People continued to arrive, even
somebody, I don’t remember who, came through the window. At 12 o’clock girls
came. There were only three girls but boys were about ten, that is why seven of
us (including me) had nothing but
we were not sad and continued celebration till 4 o’clock. We liked the way we
spent the holiday all together. That’s all. I hope that the next New year will
be like the past one, or even better.
Dear Inga, could you please describe me your life(hobby, your favorite music,
things that you like and dislike...).
Good-bye. See you soon. From Yadykar.