Wer ist Sankt Nikolaus? – Who is Saint Nicholas?

The Historic, Real St. Nicholas
Across the German-speaking region of Europe there are many kinds of Santa Clauses with many different names. Despite their many names, they are all basically the same mythic character. But few of them have anything to do with the real Saint Nicholas (Sankt Nikolausor der Heilige Nikolaus), who was probably born around A.D. 245 in the port city of Patara in what we now call Turkey. Very little solid historical evidence exists for the man who later became the Bishop of Myra and the patron saint of children, sailors, students, teachers, and merchants. He is credited with several miracles and his feast day is December 6, which is the main reason he is connected with Christmas. In Austria, parts of Germany, and Switzerland, der Heilige Nikolaus (or Pelznickel) brings his gifts for children on Nikolaustag, Dec. 6, not Dec. 25. Nowadays, St. Nicholas (“Saint Nick”) through Sinterklaas.

In our House we also have a SECRET SANTA who leaves little presents in the socks 🙂

Dear ISABELLA we wish you a nice day and all the best this year at Cdl.

Weekend in Berlin:

We went to Berlin and visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews,  is a memorial for the victims in the holocaust. There are 2,700 concrete slabs organized in rows. It was created by Eisenman in 1997 and he wanted to represent an illusion of instability.

Is a beautiful place in the center of the city who reminds you that we must know what had happened in the past to do not do it again. Everyone can see it and it has a museum that tells you the history of the holocaust.

Isabella Lopez

You cant make everyone happy unless you have a set of choice for your dessert menu. Want some dessert? It is always an option.

We wish all the best and a great Birthday. X X

WE LOVE IT! 

-Karolina Sikorska-

QUE PADRE = HOW FUN

Señoritas enjoying a nice meal at CDL International Dinner on Tuesdays.

Natalia:

-Literal, estaba deli!  (it was delicious)

Isabella:

– Yes, so tasty. I think “el señor” behind us loves it.

We made a pumpkin for halloween. We had the idea of creating a pumpkin that represented our house with all of our rooms but we also put scary effects. It was a really good activity and this halloween was really fun and exciting. This pumpkin will also be apart of the house competition and we hope to win!!!

Oyin.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Why Autumn and Fall?

Before it was autumn and fall, it was harvest. While the modern names of winter and summer have been around for more than 1,000 years, the names of fall and spring are more recent—and less constant. This is partly because the two seasons were long viewed as secondary to summer and winter

Both spring and autumn used to go by different names. In the 12^th and 13^thcenturies, spring was called lent or lenten, while fall was called harvest. In the 14^th century things got a little chaotic. Lenten disappeared around the beginning of the 1300s, and the later lent similarly vanished only a few decades later. (It survives, of course, as the name for a religious observance.) By the end of the 14^th century there was no firm word for springtime: People referred to it as part of summer, they used Latin (ver) or French (primetemps), or they just made up new phrases. Harvest as a word to mean not just “a time of reaping” but also, even for city folk, “the third season of the year” lasted longer. But it was joined by autumn—a word borrowed from the French—by the 16^th century.

They each initially appeared in the 16^th century as spring of the leaf and fall of the leaf.

It’s a bit of a mystery why the superfluous autumn persists while analogous words like primetemps and ver have fallen out of use, but it may have something to do with the Atlantic Ocean. The rise of autumn and the appearance of fall happened around the same time as the British arrival on the American continent, and it’s there that the latter really caught on.