Germans don't show their flag very often (I have heard people say that they think this is arrogant). This week in Köln, however, there are flags everywhere you look. Pilgrims from the around the globe are packing the subway stations. They wave flags, sing national anthems, and chant. Today platforms that usually have 50 people were holding 1000+. In some places people were even sitting on the shoulders of others so that they could fit in the train. I saw one monk get his cowl stuck in the doors of the train as they shut. Oops!
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Hey, where's the new skirt? :)
Had trouble (was too shy) finding someone to take a pic. I'll find a mirror today if not a person. By the way, too shy is not the normal state. Wearing full pilgrims garb will do that to a girl though. 800,000 other people are wearing the same thing however (minus the volunteer shirt), and it has been a great conversation starter.
Hey Brandi,
A little note about the flags...When I was in Germany a few years ago I got into a discussion with a friend who had lived there before. Apparently it all goes back to the World War II era and the shape of patriotism at that time. Now Germans avoid and are afraid of many of the forms of patriotism that we as Americans are quite accustomed to such as displaying the flag.
Hope everything else is going well and that you get to enjoy some of the Welt Jugend Tag celebrations!
*has image of you talking to 800,000 people, all wearing full pilgrim garb and brown skirts*
*is massively amused*
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