Spring Festival

It's such a coincidence of this year that the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve is exactly the same day as the last day of the carnival. Different people are celebrating different festivals, but one thing is common: the happiness. In China, families get together on that day every year with love to one another and good wills for the coming year. In Germany, people go out onto the streets with joy to share with strangers.

The far ancestors might have something similar in mind to design festivals so much alike, when they are so far away geographically. (However, I admit that they did not do a good job in language design, as in the infamous case of "tchüss". Anyway, one cannot expect everything to be perfect.)

Wish you all a happy (new) year!

carnival

I'm lucky to have witnessed the last day of carnival. This is my first carnival here. I searched my vocabulary trying to describe it properly:

C-crazy:
it's a time when everyone is crazy. A sober citizen in the crowd might be considered abnormal.
A-active:
by hiding and waiting in your room you can not get any fun. The price of joy is your participation.
R-rush:
workers, farmers, esp. government officers......those who are in great need of speeding up their usual work are getting really efficient during these days. preparing clothes, decorating vehicles......the work can wait but a holiday can't.
N-naughty:
showing ignorance towards the kids is impossible. They declare their existance and attract your attention, together with sweets and flowers, with loud shout of "Kamelle"!
I-interesting:
this is too much a boring word to use in taking snapshots of this great event.
V-vital:
some families spend the whole year waiting and preparing for this day. The right to entertain and to be entertained is one basic human right, at least for me.
A-again:
haven't you noticed that I've already explained A once? Anyway, as far as I observed, the prossession goes arround the city twice. No wonder there are two "A"s in this word......(the angry readers: Do you have problem choosing a right word? Then skip this A. That will be much better than this paragraph of nonsense.)
L-life:
"C'est la vie!", in my opinion the second best sentence on earth(the first being "So what?"). A life to enjoy to the greatest extent when you can, and to tolerate as much when it's not festival for you (A simple example: before the exam we suffer a lot and afterwards we can relax even more. Bingo!).