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In Germany,dogs are too friendly that they do not bark at strangers unlike in Kumbo-Cameroon.Most families have as family members and some prefer dogs to children and walk in the city with them,sleep with them in house and eat together with them.

Ivoline, Jakob and the snow

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Ivoline and Linus

Ivoline in snow

Ivoline and Malisa(mother of her host father watching at Saint Nicolaus.

It is a tradition in Germany that feastdays of some saints

Jacob and the parents recieving gifts from SaintNicolaus.

like Saint Martin and Nicolaus are celeberated annualy in a very special way.Feast of Saint Nicolaus is celeberated on the 6th of December and on this day,families sit together ,sing songs for saint Nicolaus,eat and wait for saint Nicolaus who brings gifts for everyone in the family.Saint Nicolaus was a Bishop who cared for poor people and children.That is why the person who acts as Saint Nicolaus dreeses like a Bishop.When this day is coming children are very happy and anxious to recieve gifts from Saint Martin who comes in the evening.

Jacob's father and the grand father sitting the priest who acted as St Nicolaus.

My host mother with her mother