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Students from the International Club (IC) are selling Advent calendars until Dec. 1 to raise money for scholarships. Some forty kids are participating in selling the Advent calendars. The calendars cost $3 each, and should be sold out by December 1. The Adventskalendars (German word for Advent calendar) are a German tradition, and those being sold actually come from Germany, and have been sold at Laramie High School many years. International Club is an activity club to bring foreign language and foreign students together according to Ms. Kirkwood, club sponsor and French teacher. Other sponsors include Mr. Miller (German teacher), Ms. Chamberlain (Spanish teacher). Lucas Kuhrts is a member of the International Club and a foreign exchange student from Berlin, Germany. Kuhrts is actively selling Advent calendars with true spirit as most children in Germany receive Advent calendars to count the days until Christmas. Kuhrts said that he has always received an Advent calendar and would get another from his mother this Christmas season. Advent calendars are a popular tradition in Germany. The Advent calendar refers to the penitential period beginning four Sundays before Christmas. The calendars sold at LHS are a shallow box with a depiction of a Christmas scene with 24 perforated “doors” with small molded chocolates behind each. Beginning on December 1, one of doors is opened each day until the last door is opened on Christmas Eve. One morsel of chocolate every day until Christmas. “In Germany, Advent calendars can be filled with anything from simple little candies to expensive little toys,” said Kuhrts. Maria Love, paraprofessional at LHS, who grew up in Austria said, “We always received Advent calendars.” According to Love, they only had little pictures behind the doors. The children would sometimes make their own to give to friends and family. She said they were popular gifts until the kids were about twelve and then they were too old for them. Skyler Wasinger ]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:42:00 GMT