torstai 6. elokuuta 2015

The sorbs of bautzen

Not only germans live in Bautzen. The city is also home to the smallest slavic nation, the sorbs.
Sorbs found their way to germany over one thousand years ago and they still continue to inhabit the region of the lausitz to this day. Nowadays there are only about 60,000 Sorbs living in germany.
Sorbs founded Bautzen in year 1002 to be some kind of political and spiritual center to the Sorbs and for thousands of years Germans and Sorbians have lived there together.
Sorbs speak german but they also have their own language Sorbian. Although nowadays only 5 - 10% of the people living in Bautzen are actually Sorbs, there are still schools in Bautzen where you can learn and speak Sorbian.
The city of Bautzen reflects its German-Sorbian cultures and history, and this can be seen by the bilingual sign posting of all the streets and public places. Many kids in Bautzen attend Sorbian school atleast in some part of their life. But that doesn't mean that they actually learn the language. Some people can be in Sorbian school for years and still doesn't know many words of this strange slavic laguage. But the schools are there and there is always possibility to learn and study the language.




Kuvahaun tulos haulle sorbs
                                                  This is a tradinional Sorbian female costume.

lauantai 9. toukokuuta 2015

Food

Food in Germany was different, not much but anyway. We dont actually had "one meal" at home, we got many little plates and you take little bit of everything like meat,potatoes,pasta.but they dont have salad, only "green" thing was tomato. When you finished you sit at the table and wait that everyone is finish, that can took half hour or more :-D

One typical meat in Germany is bratwurst and salami. They also like drink beer with everything. . First night we eat pumpkin soap, potatosalad, meat, dessert at the party

At school we have the school lunch -meal and that school food was great! We also get snacks in the morning when we left to school, we get all kind of  cookies, white nutella breads and carps.

Best food in Germany was the hotel breakfast oh damn.
In Germany everyone bought lot of candy and chocolate because they have much more all kind of chocolates and they was also cheaper than in Finland!

-Thank you