Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a dear friend’s 50th birthday. Besides delightful company and excellent food, there were speeches made, as is customary at most important fetes. Before coming to Germany, the speeches I heard at weddings were so lacklustre they were embarrassing at best.
I don’t know where Germans learn how to make intelligent, funny and touching speeches about their daughter’s escapades in life, or write poems to honour a silver wedding anniversary, or write ditties about a colleagues working career, but they do it with a flair.
Yes! I've also noticed how well they give speeches. We too were at a birthday party yesterday - for an artist friend. She gave a short speech thanking everyone who came to here atelier to see her works in progress, and then her husband stepped in and gave a 10-minute love letter to his wife and his work. It was touching, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining.
ReplyDeleteWell, not all of them know how to do this but every family has one who makes speeches and little poems and such.
ReplyDeleteI don't know where they learn other than such parties because I don't know how to do it.