This is Brett, looking very professional, at the youth retreat he spoke at in February.
This is Fiona dressed up for "Fasching". I have not been able to investigate this holiday properly and so can tell you absolutely nothing about it except that Fiona dressed up as a fairy the week before last. They had a very big party at preschool and it was fun.
This is my little frog, green is a hard color to get off skin. She still has a hulk-tone to her. Fiona was practicing sleeping when we picked her up from Kindergarten today. They are having a "slumber" party at the preschool this friday and talked about where everyone would sleep.
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Sounds like Nona is having a blast at kindergarten! Love that! Hope you are feeling better...We miss hearing your voice...=( Love you!!
I think there exist different explanations for Fasching. One is, that the demons (creatures?) of darkness and so on were supposed to be scared off (to retreat) by people masquerading with disguised, ugly faces and so on. The ugly, distorted faces were supposed to scare the creatures of darkness and send them away. Over time I guess it has become more of a fun activity and a socio-critical event, where it is allowed to make fun and criticize basically everything (politicians, church, economy, etc).
I think part of the festivities is also that it is shortly before lent, the season of fasting and purification before Easter. So I guess people wanted to strive in their sin one last time before they had to "purify" themselves for lent. But I am not sure about this latter explanation.
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