In Germany, on your first day of school your parents prepare a “Schultüte”, which is full of sweets and pencils and crayons and other useful stuff for school.
This must have been in 1982.
Links:
Donation
If you find this blog funny, clever or even useful, you can keep it alive with a small donation. Thank you!
$10.00
-
Recent Posts
- The Secret Space Program of Yugoslavia
- Mobilization in Russia
- Naughty Towns and Sin Cities
- I am not a spy, I am just curious
- Learning German with Hamlet
- Montenegro, where Laziness is Olympic
- King and Peasants discuss the British Monarchy
- One Hundred Years Ago, they were looking for the Center of Brazil – September 1922: Brasília
- One Hundred Years Ago, Sweden almost gave up on Booze – August 1922: Prohibition Referendum
- Journey to the Center of Europe – Kruhlyi, Ukraine
-
Join 8,671 other followers
The Happy Hermit 
This is lovely. Very symbolic too. I like the idea of sharing. Giving school the stationery is also practical too. The boy in the picture combed his hair very well. He looked very smart and confident. Thank you for the lovely image.
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. My wife has a similar shot and it is hanging on her parent’s wall.
I had no idea about this. What a lovely idea!
So cute.
This is pretty much adorable. Is there any significance to the lady bug? For us, (i.e. in the U.S.) it just basically is an omen of good luck.
In addition to documenting my son’s first week , this makes me want to dig up my own picture from… 1986, complete with full Catholic school uniform, peter pan collar, saddle shoes (yikes).
Yes, lady bugs are also a symbol of luck in Germany.
haha great picture, you looked ready to take over the world :) !
When that picture was taken, did you ever think that you would be a travelling-philosophical-blogging-journalist-photographing lawyer?
I was really nervous. And I was scared of being in a building with so many other children, most of whom I didn’t know (although I had been to kindergarten for 3 years before). I only relaxed after a few weeks when I noticed that I was academically at the top of the class. It helped that I could already read fluently, while many other kids still had to learn the alphabet. But I remained socially awkward for quite a while, maybe until today.
Maybe? :)
:-))))
Que hermoso niño!
Gracias!
Todavia tengo camisas similares.
Pingback: Spring in the Bavarian Forest | The Happy Hermit
Pingback: Frühling im Bayerischen Wald | Der reisende Reporter
Dijiste que cuando eras mas joven parecías mas viejo, no es verdad.