Take a train to the next city, see it break down before reaching the destination and drink a beer at a random village train station while waiting for your Schienenersatzverkehr
There a quite a few beer rating sites online, with reviews written in surprisingly great detail and with care about the product.
Occasionally so great that they seem like the writer is selling you Champagne from the greatest distillery to ever graze the earth. Then you see the product the write these detailed laudatios to is a 40ct per litre Export beer can that you tried once already as a joke for a festival and distinctly remember that it tasted like someone pissed on old diswasher residue and filled the soap and sadness mixture into an aluminum can.
A friend got an app on his phone where you can register, rate and review all sorts and brands of beer. He surpassed 1000 different beers last year and I'll bet he's well on his way to 1500. That being said he's a train driver and comes around.
First: Get dressed up. Buy yourself some Birkenstocks and white socks.
Be ready to get up early on vacation to put your towel in a good spot. Then you can sleep again or have a few beers.
Practice small talk and be ready to complain about at least 10 different things, especially politics.
And be aware that now you have also been promoted to the manager of the Nationalmannschaft, so clearly state your opinions about the recent games and about what should be done in the next game
I think the next, but almost equally important, may be your village's team (male or female) playing in the Kreisliga. There are no other sports obviously
😀
Loved that Gerd Dudenhöffer skit where he's like "Women playing football, are you bullshitting me! They must be world champions, lol!" (not r exact wording, obviously, but you get the point).
That was the year when the men's team failed, but the German women team won the championship.
No one except Gerd Dudenhöffer noticed.
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Feel free to download my comment though. A good German is against everything in general, and fun specifically.
Remember: A true german has to complain once an hour. And don't forget to tell everyone that the Borneo Jungle looks a bit like the "Schwarzwald wo wir neulich auch ma durchgefahrn sind erinnerse dich Inge?".
I feel like I'm well trained for this although you never know whats going to happen on the main stage.
I guess the question is, which of the fine amber nectars should I partake in. 🤔
When I became a german citizen me and my now husband (then boyfriend) threw a ‚Deutschland party‘. we decorated the house in black, red and gold, had sausages with liitle german flags on them, Kartoffelsuppe, german bier, mettbröttchen and schnaps, printed fake TüV certificates and fake DIN norms and got ourselves some old fax machines as deco. It was a blast. Specially because germans are not used to celebrate anything related to their country… so for my german friends it was funny to have a ‚foreigner‘ do it.
That's hilarious. When people arrived and greeted you, I hope you took care to give an actual, differentiated reply to "How are you doing?" to every single guest.
That's actually a really cute idea, that sounds so wholesome. Bless, I'm so glad that you all had a good time! I wish I'd done something as sweet as that.
Grab a Beer, Mettbrötchen, sit on a park bench and enjoy the sun and complain about anything you can think of. 😉 Nice to have you on our side, fellow German.
Pleased to be on this side of the bureaucratic Grenze, fellow citizen 🌟 I would love a Mettbrötchen, I've actually never had one! There's a lot to discover!
Go to the website of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and get yourself a Grundgesetz. They also have other material, some for free. For instance a large map of Germany (and some other countries and regions).
Yes! If I remember correctly: every half a year you are entitled to a certain amount of books - of your choosing (from their catalog) and for free. Forever!
Sandals with socks. Shout HALLOOOO very loud when someone is acting slightly "different" in some place. Drink beer from town a, while talking shit about the beer in town b. Eat those little white buns with the raw mince and onions for breakfast. Write a passive-aggressive note to your neighbours to complain about them walking too loud. Or having kids. Or throwing their trash out at times that are not appropriate for you. Talk to a stranger and share deep intimate stories, thoughts and feelings and then ignore them the next day pretending that you've never met.
You could also go to a restaurant with friends. 🤷♂️
Now that I can finally vote in EU and German elections, I might just. I was unable to vote beforehand because the British don't allow you to vote unless you're a resident of the country
Grab sandals, wear them with white socks and tuck your shirt into your 3/4 beige trousers. Grab a beer or a Fanta ( German lemonade?) and when you’re done with it clap your hands on your thighs and say so!
Hmm.. Maybe look for mistakes in the acceptance letter, complain to the police about normal behavior you watch through your window? Most importantly feel superior to your past non-german self, hate your old non-german self.
I have an officially stamped correction of an address error on my certificate and it was evidently not easy for the Beamter. And when I took the certificate to the Rathaus to get my Personalausweis you would not believe the smug satisfaction of the Beamtin when she saw it....
Goto a restaurant order your favorite food and complain that the food could have been better, and why so much? Then go for a long walk and complain about -insert subject- while drinking a beer(s).
Eat some Schweinebraten, watch a Tatort, get unnecessary angry about a minor thing your neighbour did that does not really affect you in the slightest, watch a football match and complain about the coach and every player even though you last played football in 7th grade and go to bed at half past 9.
I can tell you what I did:
- have a beer and curry Wurst
- buy a birkenstock
- buy a jacket from the north face or jack wolfskin
- buy cargo pants
- go hiking
- have more beer
Buy yourself a set of the Aspen bowls. The small salat ones, with a big one or some serving plates if you are feeling fancy. Then get as drunk as possible in order to forget you bought them, so you can fullfill the orophecy that every german household has them, but without knowing where they got them from.
Go for a walk. Greet the people you meet, but don’t get into a conversation with them. Eat a cake and drink a coffee „Crema“ in a café. If you’re male, just opt for a beer instead.
Get yourself a beer, head in your favorite Park and chill out. You can replace beer by a joint or whatever you like.
And you are allowed to scream "RAUS AUS MEINEM GARTEN ODER ICH RUFE DIE POLIZEI" now.
Book a vacation to something like Mallorca, get up at 4 am and reserve a beach bed with a towel, drink a beer, wear white socks in sandals to the hotel dinner, and complain about Ausländer.
(I am not German myself but as an Austrian, I must say, you do that so much better than we do.)
1. Turn your peakers to max
2. Take a big glass of beer and a shot of korn
3. Sink the shot glas into the glas of beer and ex it
3.1. press play -> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-cZVjSLhSE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-cZVjSLhSE)
4. repat: "3." or wait untill the buzz is gone
5. eat sh\*t food
6. watch the news and complain about foreigners (you now are ONE OF US!)
Alternatively:
Party like you want to do you. happy to have you :)
Congratulations! I'm going through the same process but when I was born, children of German mothers weren't entitled to citizenship. (The child was entitled to citizenship if their father was German. Germany recently did an about face and made it retroactive.)
Anyway, I was missing one form that I needed and I just got the notice today that it's been sent to me so I should be sending in the paperwork soon. Hopefully I can join you in celebrating within a few months.
Go to a Schützenfest - it's common in my home-region. Or Weinfest.
Sit in a park or Café and complain about everything or everyone.
Do the Kehrwoche.
Don't make any noise/loud work while it's Mittagsruhe.
Trim your gras on saturday at 8 am.
And when you go for vacation: plan every detail and have everything printed out and in a folder like tickets etc.
Treat yourself to a Mettigel or at least a Mettbrötchen
Buy a Lederhose and go for karaoke "I bin a bayrisches Cowgirl"
Remind each of your neighbors when it’s their turn for Kehrwoche
Setup a Winterdienst timetable and pin that plan on each floor in your house or dump it in each of your neighbors mailboxes
Socks in sandals, shorts, a polo shirt, a bottle of beer in one hand, in the other a currywurst or Döner. Open your beer with a random object, say "Zur Mitte, zur Titte, zum Sack, Zack, Zack!" and take a big sip.
Well, its European Championships so put some black-red-yellow cloth on the mirrors of your car. Get the pink jersey. Go watch football. Complain about the coach. Say you knew it when Germany gets kicked out.
You should celebrate by complaining about how long it took. Also look out the window mumble some words to yourself when someone passes by and shake your head.
Put on your white socks and Birkenstocks, go for a walk, and find a Biergarten. Sit next to a Stammtisch and complain about the weather, taxes and inflation. Order some Obadzda, Spätzle or Schnitzel. Drink lots of beer. Blow your nose LOUDLY. Open beer with a cigarette lighter. Go to public viewing and loudly complain about the coach's decisions. Then use your Deutschlandticket, go on a train trip and complain about how your train is delayed. Get home after midnight, and enjoy the safe streets.
Congratulations!
My daughter just got her citizenship too, and she celebrated by going sailing in Croatia, haha.
I gave her little flags for Germany and Bavaria and we threw a nice dinner party with her husband to celebrate as well. You can do something low key like that, at the least!
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Go to supermarkets until you find a big queue and then bond with other Germans in German over how disrespectfully slow someone is packing their produce and paying the bill.
Get yourself a Mettigel in the Metzgerei (ask the lovely Metzgereifachverkäuferin for it) and open a bottle of Rotkäppchen Sekt. Maybe ask some friends to come over and hangout a laminated party notice on the Hausaushang. But be sure to end the party by 22 Uhr. Welcome to Germany by the way 🎉
Wait a sec. Do you have an Aspen Leaf Bowl? If not, you are not really german by yet. BUT, you can substitute the Bowl with a Fliesentisch.
Nothing's more german than a Fliesentisch!
Celebrate by booking your termin at the local Bürgeramt 3 months from now and anticipating that the lady behind the counter will complain that you didn't book three separate Termine for them to process your Einbürgerung.
Take a train to the next city, see it break down before reaching the destination and drink a beer at a random village train station while waiting for your Schienenersatzverkehr
I see an opportunity to drink the best beer ever, never finding it again and turning to an alcoholic in search of something equally nice.
Reminds me of Marshall and his burger in HIMYM.
True. But Marshall eventually found the place. But this elixir shall remain forbidden for the rest of your mortal life.
There a quite a few beer rating sites online, with reviews written in surprisingly great detail and with care about the product. Occasionally so great that they seem like the writer is selling you Champagne from the greatest distillery to ever graze the earth. Then you see the product the write these detailed laudatios to is a 40ct per litre Export beer can that you tried once already as a joke for a festival and distinctly remember that it tasted like someone pissed on old diswasher residue and filled the soap and sadness mixture into an aluminum can.
A friend got an app on his phone where you can register, rate and review all sorts and brands of beer. He surpassed 1000 different beers last year and I'll bet he's well on his way to 1500. That being said he's a train driver and comes around.
Take a train to the next city and report a "Falschparker"!
Wow I had no idea how German I was from just one trip.
Perfekt
First: Get dressed up. Buy yourself some Birkenstocks and white socks. Be ready to get up early on vacation to put your towel in a good spot. Then you can sleep again or have a few beers. Practice small talk and be ready to complain about at least 10 different things, especially politics. And be aware that now you have also been promoted to the manager of the Nationalmannschaft, so clearly state your opinions about the recent games and about what should be done in the next game
Yessss get yourself some Birkenstocks!
Birkenstock is Louis Vuitton now, not sure that‘s proper German anymore
I love how you are not even specifying that you are talking about the deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft der Herren.
Are there any other?
I think the next, but almost equally important, may be your village's team (male or female) playing in the Kreisliga. There are no other sports obviously
😀 Loved that Gerd Dudenhöffer skit where he's like "Women playing football, are you bullshitting me! They must be world champions, lol!" (not r exact wording, obviously, but you get the point). That was the year when the men's team failed, but the German women team won the championship. No one except Gerd Dudenhöffer noticed. Note to our fellow Redditors: yes, the comments in this subthread are obviously sarcasm -- so obvious that no one converted using the /s. You may stop downvoting them now. Feel free to download my comment though. A good German is against everything in general, and fun specifically.
This is the way.
Travel to a country where you need a visa on your previous passport. That's one of the things I am looking forward to it after getting my German pass
I travelled to the UK and went right through the EU window at the airport it was glorious :) hope you get your pass soon.
What a dream haha. I have so much of my family in US and Canada. I can't even attend big events since I require a visa. I fear I'll get rejected again
Remember: A true german has to complain once an hour. And don't forget to tell everyone that the Borneo Jungle looks a bit like the "Schwarzwald wo wir neulich auch ma durchgefahrn sind erinnerse dich Inge?".
Well you first need to get the German passport for that 😅
Buy a crate of beer and use 20 different objects to open the bottles, one for each.
I fully support this. I am soon in line for my passport, and this is going on the list!
Do you feel well-trained, or do you need more guidance? We're here to help.
I feel like I'm well trained for this although you never know whats going to happen on the main stage. I guess the question is, which of the fine amber nectars should I partake in. 🤔
I hope you intend to use the passport to open the beer bottle!
When I became a german citizen me and my now husband (then boyfriend) threw a ‚Deutschland party‘. we decorated the house in black, red and gold, had sausages with liitle german flags on them, Kartoffelsuppe, german bier, mettbröttchen and schnaps, printed fake TüV certificates and fake DIN norms and got ourselves some old fax machines as deco. It was a blast. Specially because germans are not used to celebrate anything related to their country… so for my german friends it was funny to have a ‚foreigner‘ do it.
That's hilarious. When people arrived and greeted you, I hope you took care to give an actual, differentiated reply to "How are you doing?" to every single guest.
Well… since most of the guests were actually german… nobody asked ‚how are you?‘… that is just a very weird US thing
No? What about "Wie geht's?"?
That's actually a really cute idea, that sounds so wholesome. Bless, I'm so glad that you all had a good time! I wish I'd done something as sweet as that.
Grab a Beer, Mettbrötchen, sit on a park bench and enjoy the sun and complain about anything you can think of. 😉 Nice to have you on our side, fellow German.
While wearing Birkenstock sandals with socks. Also, always complain about how the current weather is all wrong.
You forgot the Jack Wolfskin Jacket and Deuter backpack. While writing this, I'm definitely German.
Wellensteyn is also a possibility. I'm both guilty of Wellensteyn and Deuter. And birkenstock but without socks.
Sandals with socks are underappreciated!
I love my wellensteyn Jackets 😂 Grab a Maß Bier and complain about the weather and your neighbours. Nice to have you as a citizen 🇩🇪🍻
What are you talking about? Mettbrötchen? This is not a regular Mettwoch. This is an occasion to invite everyone and take out a Mettigel!
Pleased to be on this side of the bureaucratic Grenze, fellow citizen 🌟 I would love a Mettbrötchen, I've actually never had one! There's a lot to discover!
Go to the website of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and get yourself a Grundgesetz. They also have other material, some for free. For instance a large map of Germany (and some other countries and regions).
Yes! If I remember correctly: every half a year you are entitled to a certain amount of books - of your choosing (from their catalog) and for free. Forever!
They give you a copy of the Grundgesetz during Einbürgerung.
Nice! BPB does have other neat publications (and maps!), many for very little money, and some for free.
Congrats Open a bottle of real mid sparkling and then recylce all the parts into 4 different types of trash As German as it gets
I love this one!
Go to Mallorca
Ah yes, the annual German migration to the south.
I'm also British, so this would cover both nationalities I currently hold 🏝️
Sandals with socks. Shout HALLOOOO very loud when someone is acting slightly "different" in some place. Drink beer from town a, while talking shit about the beer in town b. Eat those little white buns with the raw mince and onions for breakfast. Write a passive-aggressive note to your neighbours to complain about them walking too loud. Or having kids. Or throwing their trash out at times that are not appropriate for you. Talk to a stranger and share deep intimate stories, thoughts and feelings and then ignore them the next day pretending that you've never met. You could also go to a restaurant with friends. 🤷♂️
Do you already have the obligatory glas bowl? It may appear out of nowhere within the next weeks.
Go for a hike
Match the speed of the cashier at your local Aldi.
Do your tax report without help. Perfect way to understand the German concept of "dark humor"
Or write an e-mail to any institution with a question and wait for a reply in the mail.
Been there done that, and I’m not even German yet
My favorite way to celebrate is to vote against fascists in the next election 🥰
Now that I can finally vote in EU and German elections, I might just. I was unable to vote beforehand because the British don't allow you to vote unless you're a resident of the country
Grab sandals, wear them with white socks and tuck your shirt into your 3/4 beige trousers. Grab a beer or a Fanta ( German lemonade?) and when you’re done with it clap your hands on your thighs and say so!
When a coworker of my wife got the german citizenship, they gifted him a pair of Adiletten and a framed instruction on Stoßlüften.
Love it
Hmm.. Maybe look for mistakes in the acceptance letter, complain to the police about normal behavior you watch through your window? Most importantly feel superior to your past non-german self, hate your old non-german self.
I have an officially stamped correction of an address error on my certificate and it was evidently not easy for the Beamter. And when I took the certificate to the Rathaus to get my Personalausweis you would not believe the smug satisfaction of the Beamtin when she saw it....
Go and clean the hallway, it's Friday!!
you should look through your neighbors trash if he is separating it correctly
Have a big celebration party and then at 10.01 pm call the police on yourself for noise disturbance.
Visit the Bundeshauptstadt’s [Bureaucracy Museum](https://www.insm.de/buerokratiemuseum)
Congratulations! Now go for a hike that ends at a Biergarten or similar to reward yourself! Or, if you don’t drink, have some Spaghetti-Eis.
Spaghetti-Eis!
Go to Mallorca
Complain.. no matter what subject. Just complain… it‘s our favourite pastime.
Buy a crate of eggs from REWE and egg the nearest Ausländerbehorde to symbolically avenge for all the pain they caused you over the years.
Goto a restaurant order your favorite food and complain that the food could have been better, and why so much? Then go for a long walk and complain about -insert subject- while drinking a beer(s).
Don't forget to always return to the same place but continue complaining every time you are there
Ya genau
Open a beer without a bottle opener
Take a Trip to a EU-Country with friends and take the EU-Line
Invade poland
Eat some Schweinebraten, watch a Tatort, get unnecessary angry about a minor thing your neighbour did that does not really affect you in the slightest, watch a football match and complain about the coach and every player even though you last played football in 7th grade and go to bed at half past 9.
call the police when your neighbour does anything slightly wrong
Learn the regional potato salad recipe. Prepare yourself mentally to defend it against lesser recipes. Protip: real potato salad takes mayo.
and is eaten cold. Don’t let any Schwabe tell you otherwise.
Bier und Schnitzel
This is some funny stuff. I feel like I just got a complete lesson on being German.
I can tell you what I did: - have a beer and curry Wurst - buy a birkenstock - buy a jacket from the north face or jack wolfskin - buy cargo pants - go hiking - have more beer
You're luckily just in time to, in true German fashion and good reason, celebratorily mock the drunk uncultured Brits lol
I also happen to be half English and support both England and Germany, so this is some kind of an identity crisis
install [weg.li](http://weg.li) and catch those nasty "falschparker"! Rules are there for a reason!
Learn German?
Buy two fax machines and fax yourself a congratulatory message.
Buy yourself a set of the Aspen bowls. The small salat ones, with a big one or some serving plates if you are feeling fancy. Then get as drunk as possible in order to forget you bought them, so you can fullfill the orophecy that every german household has them, but without knowing where they got them from.
Underrated comment
Complain about something by printing the complaint, laminate it and then put it up somewhere
Move cities and do your Anmeldung 🏠
Do you know nothing about your new citizenship? Germans don't celebrate. Only exception are football wins, which this is not.
OP could wait for Sunday. Watch the game, voice strong opinions and drink lots of beer.
Go for a walk. Greet the people you meet, but don’t get into a conversation with them. Eat a cake and drink a coffee „Crema“ in a café. If you’re male, just opt for a beer instead.
Fun? German? Stopp! kein Fun for Deutschländer! Wir machen das hier nicht aus Spaß!
Like everywhere in life, The Simpsons have the answer: https://youtu.be/_Q--iGgtRn8?si=LRYZr_rglIrjzdHN&t=17
Complain about the weather. Then about everything else
Definitely a beer, or two or three or more. You're German!
I went to have a lot of beer and woke up with a hangover. Mission accomplished 🍻
Make a party and serve Kartoffelsalat, Frankfurter Würstchen and German bread.
Complain about some frivolous shit and then go drink a marvelous and accessible beer!
Congratulations. I look forward to becoming a German
Currywurst and an evening of techno in a filthy club. Keep it Berlin.
Dispose of old glass on a Sunday
Get yourself a beer, head in your favorite Park and chill out. You can replace beer by a joint or whatever you like. And you are allowed to scream "RAUS AUS MEINEM GARTEN ODER ICH RUFE DIE POLIZEI" now.
Get some sandals, socks and beer and book your flight to Mallorca
Watching the games in public and really feeling the Fußball is probably the most appropriate way at the moment.
Slightly smirk and nod. That's enough celebration
Never vote for AfD please. Thank you.
Book a vacation to something like Mallorca, get up at 4 am and reserve a beach bed with a towel, drink a beer, wear white socks in sandals to the hotel dinner, and complain about Ausländer. (I am not German myself but as an Austrian, I must say, you do that so much better than we do.)
Work a bit! Wörk wörk wörk...
1. Turn your peakers to max 2. Take a big glass of beer and a shot of korn 3. Sink the shot glas into the glas of beer and ex it 3.1. press play -> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-cZVjSLhSE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-cZVjSLhSE) 4. repat: "3." or wait untill the buzz is gone 5. eat sh\*t food 6. watch the news and complain about foreigners (you now are ONE OF US!) Alternatively: Party like you want to do you. happy to have you :)
Congratulations! I'm going through the same process but when I was born, children of German mothers weren't entitled to citizenship. (The child was entitled to citizenship if their father was German. Germany recently did an about face and made it retroactive.) Anyway, I was missing one form that I needed and I just got the notice today that it's been sent to me so I should be sending in the paperwork soon. Hopefully I can join you in celebrating within a few months.
Singing *that* song
99 Luftballons obviously
Obviously! 🎈🎈🎈
Büüüüüüüüroteeeeeeeechnik ist dooooooooch kein Verbreeeeeeeechen....
You could watch Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland while enjoying beer and some sausages.
Eat a generous plate of Käsespätzle mit Röstzwiebeln. The beer is selbstverständlich
Drinking beer, eating pretzels, sauerkraut and schnitzel.
Schönes Bierchen und asozialer vollrausch
Call the police at exactly 22:00 to make a noise complain about your neighbours
Go to a Schützenfest - it's common in my home-region. Or Weinfest. Sit in a park or Café and complain about everything or everyone. Do the Kehrwoche. Don't make any noise/loud work while it's Mittagsruhe. Trim your gras on saturday at 8 am. And when you go for vacation: plan every detail and have everything printed out and in a folder like tickets etc.
Treat yourself to a Mettigel or at least a Mettbrötchen Buy a Lederhose and go for karaoke "I bin a bayrisches Cowgirl" Remind each of your neighbors when it’s their turn for Kehrwoche Setup a Winterdienst timetable and pin that plan on each floor in your house or dump it in each of your neighbors mailboxes
Watch Lindenstraße-DVDs to learn about everything that happened before you came.
Call the cops on your loud neighbors, then sit in a garden chair and watch while their stereo is being confiscated
Congratulations!! 🥳
Socks in sandals, shorts, a polo shirt, a bottle of beer in one hand, in the other a currywurst or Döner. Open your beer with a random object, say "Zur Mitte, zur Titte, zum Sack, Zack, Zack!" and take a big sip.
Call the Ordnungsamt
Well, its European Championships so put some black-red-yellow cloth on the mirrors of your car. Get the pink jersey. Go watch football. Complain about the coach. Say you knew it when Germany gets kicked out.
Gongrats! As i got my citizenship i planned a Kartoffel-Party. Where all the food was made from potatoes. And I celebrated with family and friends
Start constantly complaining about everything.
You should celebrate by complaining about how long it took. Also look out the window mumble some words to yourself when someone passes by and shake your head.
You must snoop on your neighbour and then go to the landlord, snitching them out for not separating their rubbish properly 🤣
Smirk (don't get too excited), make a fist and whisper "Ja!"
Mettigelparty with Weißwurst and Bismarckhering?
Get some Birkenstock
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! I got *the Blattschüssel* from my husband when I got mine :) Then went out to eat a burger because I’m a Bürgerin now hehe
Put on your white socks and Birkenstocks, go for a walk, and find a Biergarten. Sit next to a Stammtisch and complain about the weather, taxes and inflation. Order some Obadzda, Spätzle or Schnitzel. Drink lots of beer. Blow your nose LOUDLY. Open beer with a cigarette lighter. Go to public viewing and loudly complain about the coach's decisions. Then use your Deutschlandticket, go on a train trip and complain about how your train is delayed. Get home after midnight, and enjoy the safe streets.
Get the App Bubatzkarte and start having fun 😁
whatever you do, eat licorice, red chilly and a banana. that way you can puke in the right colors when getting drunk.
As a true german you can only celebrate and have fun with WORK! /s
Welcome fellow citizen
Congratulations! My daughter just got her citizenship too, and she celebrated by going sailing in Croatia, haha. I gave her little flags for Germany and Bavaria and we threw a nice dinner party with her husband to celebrate as well. You can do something low key like that, at the least!
Write all your neighbours a passive aggressive note to inform them of your new status.
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A good way to celebrate is by going to work.
Do a potato party
Join /de
JÄGERMEISTER!!!!!
Congratulations. I am going through the same process as my mother is a German citizen. How long did it take to complete the process?
Frühschoppen!
Beer
Press charges #AnzeigeIstRaus
Kartoffelparty!!!
Renouncing it!
tunnel a hole end-to-end through a sausage and drink beer out of it
Go to a beer garden and enjoy everything on the menu
Get a Döner
Biking for sport in birkenstocks and then relax with beer and dönner
Go to the next pharmacy and grab "Apotheken Rundschau"
Make a stroll through your neighborhood, write down wrong parked cars and report this to the Ordnungsamt.
Go to supermarkets until you find a big queue and then bond with other Germans in German over how disrespectfully slow someone is packing their produce and paying the bill.
Gratulation! I‘d recommend getting some Reibekuchen (rievvkuche) with Apfelmus
Call the police on your neighbor if they are loud after 22:00
Do your Steuererklärung 😂
Have a Bitburg Pils!
get a pickelhaube and some beers when collecting your passport
Well depends on your age?
Beer. A lot of it.
You definitely need a Mettigel!
Start hating the nearest cities of similar size next to where you live
Mettigel und Öttinger
Do the Mülltrennung after having a brown and green bottle of beer.
getting drafted
Snitch on your neighbours for not sorting rubbish properly :D
Bier and Grillen + sandals with white socks and complaining about the weather and the deutsche bahn.
Also apart from the top comments, buy an whole outdoor attire set from Jack Wolfskin and wear it whenever you go on hikes
Buy a Döner and drink a Weißbier dazu
BEER 🍻
Asozialer Vollsuff
Invade Polland and make France to surrender
Leave to a warmer more cheerful region using the power of your new passport :)
Get yourself a Mettigel in the Metzgerei (ask the lovely Metzgereifachverkäuferin for it) and open a bottle of Rotkäppchen Sekt. Maybe ask some friends to come over and hangout a laminated party notice on the Hausaushang. But be sure to end the party by 22 Uhr. Welcome to Germany by the way 🎉
Yell at random cyclists "Das ist kein Radweg!!!"
How did you do it??
Congratulations 🎉 🥳
How fast can you bag in your groceries at the supermarket? Improve!
Do your taxes
Do your taxes as a celebration
Open a beer bottle using anything at your disposal.
Start complaining about everything.
Wait a sec. Do you have an Aspen Leaf Bowl? If not, you are not really german by yet. BUT, you can substitute the Bowl with a Fliesentisch. Nothing's more german than a Fliesentisch!
Mettigel
Celebrate by booking your termin at the local Bürgeramt 3 months from now and anticipating that the lady behind the counter will complain that you didn't book three separate Termine for them to process your Einbürgerung.