School Christmas Market

This year we came for (and were invited to) the school's Christmas market. M really planned ahead for this one. She reserved a booth, planned to make "snicker doodle" cookies (which Germans seem to not be aware of but love them once they try them) and asked V to buy the ingredients for them. The night before they cooked tray after tray and M organized them into little bags tied with ribbon to sell for one euro each. She made an entry into her notebook for each bag and marked off how many she needed to sell to pay V back for the ingredients (5 euros total, so 5 bags), beyond that was profit and she had 26 bags total. She didn't stop there! She kept the broken cookies and put them in an open bag as free samples so people could taste the cookies and get hooked. She also had a basket of little slips of card paper that had the ingredients written on them that she would give to each person (in case they might have allergies to the ingredients) and she had her tool box to organize the money in. She practiced making change for different amounts the night before. She also had a sign that said they were one euro, so people knew what they were getting into. To top it off she had a small wreath decoration with a candle to make it more Christmas like and a bakers hat to wear.


Picture from before she put on the hat.

T on the other hand had a platform where he set up an MP3 player with speakers to play music to dance to and hope people would donate money. That didn't go so well, so he packed up and went over to M's booth and subcontracted. M is very quiet at school so T held up bags to extol to passersby. Together they sold all 26 bags which left her with 21 euros of profit! She also, I learned, already has plans for reinvestment. She wants to use the profit to buy seeds to plant for a garden next spring and already has her plot reserved at the school. Then she can sell the produce. I am amazed.

Also, snow started falling in the morning and it snowed all day in Selent. It looked nice in an "Hansel and Gretel" kind-of-way on the timber frame thatch roofed houses in town. T and I walked around town a bit and snapped some photos.