WEBVTT - Hermann_Huter file: huter_hermann_40.txt

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We had to get up early every day and,

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first of all, go to church – that was
important.

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There used to be so-called Rorate.

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That is a kind of Mass,

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so to say a "better" kind of Mass.

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And all of us had to go to the Rorate.

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We got up shortly after six in the
morning and

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got dressed and washed - with cold water

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there was no warm water then, not like
nowadays -

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and then we went to school.

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Sometimes it was very nice, sometimes
not.

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In winter there were no snow ploughs or
anything

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and we had to wade through the snow.

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And - -

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Sometimes the snow reached up to our
knees if no path

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had been stamped down yet. Later -
during the morning - our neighbour

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would ride through the snow with his
horse and a small plough

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and make a small path for the sleds.

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All the snow was stamped down

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so that sometimes we were walking on the
snow about a metre

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above the actual ground. Yes.

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We also went sledging, but not so
frequently

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because it was impossible to get out of
the way, everywhere there was -

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The winters were harsher than they are
now.

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Nowadays they are - partly - last winter
was really harsh

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but on the whole -

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there used to be more snow.

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I don't know what else to tell. At
school

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we usually teased the priest.

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Then he – our teacher was an elderly
priest,

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Father Mattle, and he would get up

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if we were misbehaving in the back -
then he got angry,

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and pulled out the hazel switch and hit
the desk

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because he missed us. We ducked. That's
what school was like.

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Otherwise school was quite nice.

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I was always able to follow but wasn't a
straight-A student.

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No I wasn't. But I was able to follow
all the classes.

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After school -

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that was a different kind of life.

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We really had to give a hand.

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Especially in the summer during the hay
harvest:

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raking and carrying the hay racks and
that kind of thing.

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We had to do everything.