Childrens Day

Yesterday was a huge event in Bremen: It was Childrens Day. This event is like a big party for kids with lots of toys and different exercises/games to play. It is a yearly happening always under the motto: Making kids strong (In German: Kinder stark machen). Means that children should be raised in a responsible way, showing them the good stuff in life, giving them self-confidence and holding them back from drugs, criminality etc.
I don't know how many children have been there yesterday, but in our newspapers it was written that there were about 700 people who made this event possible and did all their work for free. Must have been some thousand children there.

Jale's 5th birthday

On June 4th Jale celebrated her 5th birthday. She was still weak and ill that time and so we promised to do a big party for her. So we invited her friends for a party on sunday, 10th. She wanted to invite nearly everyone of her kindergarten kids...that would have been about 12 children. Way too many for our flat and for our nerves! But we have a general agreement: 1 friend per year, means, 5th birthday=5 friends, 6th birthday=6 friends etc etc.
For sunday she invited her friends: Marvin, Sabrina, Melanie, Alina and Ebru. Unfortuntaley Ebru was ill and could not be with us. Her party started at 2.30h p.m. and the parents picked up their children again at 6.30h p.m.
It was hot that day... 26-28°C but the kids were playing outside for some time and we only went inside our flat to have some cakes and cookies. All in all it was a loud and wild party but they all liked it and nobody wanted to leave.
After all kids had left and we cleaned up everything again, we had a cool drink to relax. Next morning I got up at 6.00h again and I felt as if I was boxing 12 rounds.......;-)