Today we met at the lake Soulijärvi in Hervanta. We followed a hiking trail around the lake.
We talked about traditional dresses. Emma and I are both from southern Germany. In southern Germany, women wear a dirndl as their traditional dress. The traditional clothing looks different depending on which region you come from. In the countryside, the dirndl is worn to many festivities such as family celebrations. In Munich, many people also have a dirndl but often only wear it to big celebrations like the Oktoberfest.
Dani told us what traditional Dutch clothing for men and women looks like. Wooden shoes are traditional for the Netherlands and are called klomp in Dutch. Every region in the Netherlands has its own shoe shape. We also talked a bit about how some parts of both countries are a bit more conservative/tend to stick to traditions than other parts.
We talked a bit about how customs differ in different parts of Germany.
In the more rural areas, people stick to traditions even more than in the big cities. But there are also geographical differences. In East Germany, you notice the influence of the former GDR even more. People are generally more conservative.
The hike was very nice and not very strenuous. Emma and I said that there are many German hiking songs, one from our childhood is “Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust”. The Netherlands is very flat and you can’t compare the hills with the Alps. Emma and Dani explored what they thought was a small cave.
We taught ourselves the words for root, tree and lake.
Wurzel=wortel (root)
Baum=boom (tree)
See=meer (lake)
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