A: Ok, so last Christmas Eve.
A: What does that day look like for us.
A: I take my time getting up.
A: Then I help my mom with the cooking, the chopping, you know, with preparing everything for the evening.
A: We slice food and get things ready.
A: Then we eat.
A: Then we decorate the tree, make it look pretty.
A: After that I take a shower.
A: We have to take turns, mom, dad, and I.
A: After we shower, we sit down together for coffee and cake.
A: We take our time and enjoy it.
A: Later, my brother joins us.
A: Then we head out to church together.
A: Well, I have to sit through that for 45 minutes.
A: It means nothing to me. It’s boring.
A: But mainly I just stare into space.
A: I see a few people, neighbors, whom I have known since I was a child.
A: I watch them to see how they’ve changed.
A: When the service is over we go home.
A: Then we serve dinner.
A: We eat together and chat.
A: At some point, we’ve eaten so much that we feel stuffed.
A: Then we play the usual game of dice.
A: If you roll a six you bring over a present and announce for whom it is.
A: For example, I’ll bring over a present that is from my mom for my dad, so I give it to him.
A: He opens it so we can all see what it is.
A: Then we continue taking turns rolling the dice.
A: Some years my mom has to get up all the time to get a present because she rolls so many sixes.
A: Another year, I have to get up a lot because I roll so many sixes.
A: One year it’s my dad who ha to do it. It’s like that sometimes.
A: There’s also been a year where I just had to go get presents once or twice.
A: I was rolling the dice again and again but nothing happened.
A: I even rolled them three times in a row but didn’t get a six.
A: Sometimes it doesn’t work out with the dice.
A: We usually play until about 11 pm.
A: We play for a long time, one and a half or two hours.
A: We’re not in a hurry to roll the dice and chat a lot while playing.
A: We discuss which presents were special.
A: That’s how we do it.
A: At about 11 pm I feel tired and exhausted.
A: After all, I was up all day running around busily. So I’m exhausted.
C: Asks about how the Christmas tree is decorated.
A: Yes, I do that together with my mom.
A: We decorate it with silver, red, yellow, and green ornaments.
A: SILBER1A
A: silber
A: GRÜN1A
A: grün
A: We hang them using these, um, these kinda strings.
A: They are silver and we hang them all over the tree.
A: We also have a few very old baubles.
A: There’s one that is 50 years old, or rather from the 50s.
A: It’s a really old bauble, we hang it somewhere near the top.
A: We also hang up some stars.
A: On top we put an ornate tree topper.
A: Everything’s shiny and glistening. Yeah.