{"id":1094,"date":"2012-04-01T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2012\/04\/01\/annika-gives-global-awareness-presentation\/"},"modified":"2012-04-01T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:03:42","slug":"annika-gives-global-awareness-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/2012\/04\/01\/annika-gives-global-awareness-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Annika Gives Global Awareness Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On  Thursday March 29<sup>th<\/sup>, Annika , a German au pair with Au Pair In  America, shared some of her German culture with\u00a0 4<sup>th<\/sup> graders at the Saugatuck Elementary School.   She told them about Carnival , which is also called the \u201cFifth Season\u201d in  Germany.  It officially begins November  11<sup>th<\/sup> at 11:11 a.m   Each town has its Council of Eleven, who plan  the events for their town and select the town\u2019s Prince and Princess.  The celebrations kick off with \u201cWomen\u2019s  Carnival\u201d on Thursday before Ash Wednesday.   That day, a woman can kiss any man she likes after cutting off his  tie.   Annika told the interested  students that German children do not celebrate Halloween but on Rose Monday,  marching bands, dancers and floats parade down the street, throwing confetti,  sweets and toys at all of the children.   On Shrove Tuesday, costume balls are held all over Germany.   Ash Wednesday  marks the end of the frenzied fun.<\/p>\n<p>Annika talked about other holidays, too.   Christmas in Germany is celebrated the  evening of December 24, not the morning of the 25<sup>th<\/sup>.    On December 6<sup>th<\/sup>, she celebrated  St. Nicolas Day with her host children Charlie and Annabelle .  On that day, shoes are left outside overnight  and if the children have been good, they are filled with oranges, nuts and  presents.  If the children have been bad,  they are left a twig. On New Year\u2019s it is German costume to serve pork and  sauerkraut for good luck.<\/p>\n<p>She  showed the children Germany on the world map and explained why it is so  important for Germans to learn English.   They are surrounded by 9 other countries, each one speaking its own  language, so English is the common language used.  She told the students that Germany had the  same weather as we do here, since we are both in the Temperate Zone.  They use the metric system, however, and  students laughed when she told them how difficult it was for her to bake her  first cake and transpose cups to grams and liters.  The students asked questions about German  sports and food and she told them that Germans eat their big meal at lunch time,  not as we do at dinner.  When she went to  school, school was over at noon and children went home for lunch.  Now, with so many parents working, schools  are accommodating them by building cafeterias, serving lunch and offering after  school programs. Students talked about famous German figures such as Albert  Einstein, Anne Frank, Mozart, Beethoven and Heidi Klum.   Since  it was their classmate Oskar\u2019s birthday,   Annika taught all of the children Happy Birthday in German and everyone  sang it to him.  By the end of the hour,  students clamored that \u201cGermany seems awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Global Awareness presentations are interactive, fun learning  experiences that introduce our children to their global neighbors and foster  multi-cultural understanding and appreciation .   It is a volunteer educational program  sponsored by the American Institute For Foreign Study .<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/04\/IMG_0006-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0006\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/04\/IMG_0006-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/04\/IMG_0006-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2012\/04\/IMG_0006.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday March 29th, Annika , a German au pair with Au Pair In America, shared some of her German culture with\u00a0 4th graders at the Saugatuck Elementary School. 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