This December German students sold advent calendars for about $5 to help raise money for the German department. The Advent Calendars were from Germany and had a piece of chocolate for every day in december before Christmas, to create a tasty way to countdown to Christmas.

The money students raise goes to a trip to Germany, a dinner, and the German department in a whole.

“A lot of times leading up to the holidays in,” Germany Senior Haille Ames said. “They do the same thing to countdown the days towards the holidays,”

The Germans invented the Advent Calendars for kids to count down to Christmas with and to have something before Christmas,”

Every day on the calendar you open up a date to find a piece of chocolate, there are 24 tabs to countdown to Christmas.

“They are made in Germany and have German chocolate in them,” Freshman Bryon Arnold said. “Chocolate is really big in Germany.”

“The point of selling Advent Calendars is to save raise money to a trip to Germany and overall the department,” junior Dylan Blanck said.

All German classes have sold advent calendars to save up for a trip. The trip takes place in June. German students can also save up for a dinner.

“We are selling calendars to save up for a dinner during class,” sophomore Jared Broyles said. “The dinner is authentic German food with some American food.”

German students can attend a dinner with the money they raised. The dinner is free  to attend to any German student that saved up to make it possible. The dinner also takes place during class.

Students all over the school were carrying these chocolate-filled boxes, to help LHS students make the days before Christmas as tasty as ever.