This Still Surprises me Every Year in Germany!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2021
- WHY AM I AWAKE RIGHT NOW? Even after 10+ years in Germany, I am STILL shocked by this every single year😂 American in Germany
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Anyone yawn when I yawned in the video?😂🥱
Problably. I am not this far in the video.
But I already yawned when I read yawn or *gähn*.
No, but I did yawn when I read this comment. So there's that.
I've always lived in Germany and I also am confused by this change every year. For me it's mostly in the evening, when I can't believe it's already 9 pm in the evening, when the light gives me a 5 pm vibe😅
Same. :D
And here in Schleswig-Holstein the birds start tweeting at first light, around 4 in the morning.
"Why I am awake right now...?!"
That's my everyday mood since adulthood hit me 😄😄
I enjoy the long days in summer, what's not cool though is when in winter time it's still dark outside on my way to work and it's already dark again on my way back home in the evening. Basically I spent my entire free time in darkness. I'll never get used to it.
I love waking up early in the summer especially on the weekends, it's so lovely and quiet and gives you a nice start into the day. Ever since I completely stopped drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages, I wake up early and refreshed again all by myself and it's the best feeling to have that morning light, birds singing and all the people still sleeping and being quiet. Makes you wanna lie in bed for a while and enjoy the mood and then jump right out of it to seize the day.
That's why I like summer most: so much daylight. I go to work when it's bright, I come back home when it's bright and I still have a couple of hours to enjoy outside.
I, as a native German resident, experienced this "shock" a few years ago, when we traveled to Tallinn, Estonia around midsummer, and you were basically able to read a book outside at around midnight, without artificial lighting.
I’m from Northern California and had a similar experience on my (pre-COVID) trip to Germany last year.
I didn’t realize just how far north it really was until, like you, I looked at where I live and and compared it to Berlin and Munich (and also realized they were basically as far north as Canada).
Also I just learned the term “Eselsbrücke“ a few days ago and this was my first time hearing it outside of a lesson!
And today, were I live, sunrise is at 03:26 and it is light from about 01:30. When I visited germany is summer I was always struckt with how early it got dark.
We have a quite literal translation for that
Breitengrade and Längengrade
So it's really hard to mess this up.
When I spent a week in Schleswig Holstein during summer I was completely shocked that you still were able to see rays from the sunset shortly before midnight. That was crazy.
My strangest experience was to walk to my hotel after an evening concert in Inverness, Scotland. At 11.30 pm, there was still some light from dusk...
I had a good teacher in these differences. Visiting a former classmate in Charleston SC, his mom told me that we were at the latitude of Jerusalem, Israel. and NYC is at the height of Naples, Italy. I may expand this, stating that Miami FL is parallel to the Sahara desert in Africa
@Jonathan Parks indeed. Even leaving Alaska out of it, Washington State has a point just north of 49°N[1], while Germany gets as far south as 47°25’[2]. Still, the difference between, say, Seattle (47.6°) and Berlin (52.5°) is significant. So... Paul is close-ish, practically speaking. :)
[1] “Sumas, Washington 49°00′08.6″N 122°15′40″W - northernmost incorporated place in the 48 contiguous states (because of 19th century survey inaccuracy placing the international border slightly north of the 49th parallel here.)” - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States
[2] “Oberstdorf... is the southernmost settlement in Germany “- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberstdorf
@Jonathan Parks I'd exclude Alaska etc, but I can't exclude the 49th degree of latitude along the US-Canadian border.
(Munich is 48.13 N). Thanks for enlightening me!
@@DavidLindes Google maps tells me to add Northwest Angle Airport (MN) at 49.35 N, on a speck (*) of land north of the Lake of the Woods. There you are, "in" the north of Bavaria, where I live at 49.53 N!
(*) That speck being 318.8 km^2...
@Jonathan Parks @David Lindes did it, why not I? You may have noticed that I deleted my wrong statement.
BTW, Alaska is excluded from many things, e.g. from the Southern hemisphere...
@Jonathan Parks Good to know that you know what I want, better than me. US-splaining(?)
Troll alert!
I am from germany, and I noticed that it got dark out in August in Vietnam at 7pm and I was just sad lol I really like that it stays bright until like 10pm in summer in Germany
Yup, but on the flipside they don't have to worry about dark winters in Vietnam either.
We of course also looked at globes and maps for many hours at school and even though theoretically knowing it, it came a bit as a shock to me to learn that NYC is the same latitude as Naples. That's pretty much as south as it gets in Europe, but still rather north in the US.
In British and I've only been to the US once and I was so shocked when the sun set quickly and early in the middle of summer in southern California. The sun can be out at 10pm here and I'm never sure when it's sunset because night descends so slowly
And Dana, thank you for being a bundle of sunshine from the sunshine state
I'm living in Switzerland and I'm used to the sunrise and sunset times you described in this video. In my childhood, my parents, and therefore me too, spent their vaccation during summer in Calabria in southern Italy. That's about the altitude of San José CA. I adjusted quickly to different sunrise and sunset times. What I did not adjust to as well was the hot temperature. I can remember one especially hot summer where the heat during midday was so intense that there appeared heat bubbles on the tarred road behind the house.
In my early twenties I spent two weeks camping in Denmark. On the camping side Svinkløv, around the altitude of Petersburg AK, the time between sunset and sunrise was about 4-5 hours. Even after sunset it was not that dark during the night. It was more of a twighligt. That felt strange to me.
15 hours of sunlight doesn't bother me. Every year it sneaks up on you😎😎
I grew up at 45 degrees north and have lived at 47.6 (Seattle) almost my entire adult life and it STILL surprises me
It is my cats that first see the sun rising (now at 04:48). They think that it is time to wake me up so as to feed them their breakfast and let them out into the garden. Their method of waking me? standing on my hip .
Of course, after their morning walkabout, they take a morning nap while I am stuck being wide awake.
Dana! If you haven't experienced it I can also recommend a visit to Finish or Swedish Lapland during wintertime(December, January or early February) when the sun doesn't shine at all and the only light you get is from the snow, the stars and the moon.
As a resident of Houston Texas, I actually miss the seasonal changes of Germany (where I lived for 9 years) including the changes in sunshine.
Lol. A lot of people don't realize Europe is about at the latitude of Canada. The reason there is a somewhat temperate climate is ocean currents. I guess that causes the effect where most people place it wrong on the map in their heads.
Mountain ranges also play a significant role in European vs US climate: all European mountain ranges run east-west, which blocks the cold from the north going too far south and vice versa, and allows humidity from the Atlantic to get quite far east. The US, on the other hand, screwed up their mountain ranges: they all run north-south, which not only blocks humidity moving in from the Pacific and is thus responsible for most of the deserts they have, but also allows the cold in winter go far south and the heat far north in summer.
"Just woken up Dana" is me after every nap. Not sure where I am, what year it is and if I am late for school....i am 35yo....
Summer holidays in Norway: It didn't become dark.
What about winter? Do you have difficulties in getting up when the alarm goes off? I do. 😉 For some people working indoors in rooms without windows it can be very depressing to not see the sun when they‘re on their way to work in the morning or driving back home after work in the late afternoon.
I know what you mean. I grew up in the northeast US where sunset in summer was around 8:30 PM (20:30) but I remember when I visited my grandparents in Scotland that it was light at 4:30 in the morning and it didn’t get dark until after 10 PM (22:00) Not only that, but because of the angle at which the sun travels, as you go north it takes much longer to get dark once the sun does set. Where I live now, once the sun goes under the horizon, it’s completely dark within 30 minutes. But, in Northern Europe, it takes longer to get dark after sunset because the sun is descending on an angle. Of course, in the winter the opposite is true. In December in Northern Europe sunset is around 4:00 - 4:30 PM (16:00 - 16:30) or even earlier and in Florida it’s around 6 PM (18:00).
And yes, laterally New York is about parallel with Portugal and Spain while Germany is up there with Canada. Thankfully, the Gulf Stream current in the Atlantic Ocean helps keep Europe a bit warmer during the winter months than places at the same latitudes in other parts of the world. So, in some ways the waters of Florida do come to visit you and keep you warmer.
Growing up in rural Germany we had field processions in May were the whole village was meeting at 5.30 a.m. and wandering singing and praying to the next village where we had a breakfast of a cold sausage and a bread roll. Afterwards we marched back and went to school. Great fun for us kids. Maiprozession.
As a 16 year old teenager we met with our friends early in the morning, wandering to some meadows in the sun and having some kind of pickning and went then back to school at 7.40. Great memories.
I love this bright shining light in the north around midnight in the time of summer solstice
I love being able to sit outside till midnight in summer (OK it is dark by then of course but still mild) and sitting inside with the shutters down at 4 pm in winter. That's the attraction of the varying seasons. I've never found it odd.
well i lived in Germany my whole life but it still annoys me that i wake up at 5 AM these days because it's already so bright outside. It kind of surprises me too every year. There were times in my life where i just slept til 9 AM no matter how early or late the sun did rise. But this year especially i wake up be between 4:30 and 5:30 AM every day at least for a short while before getting back to sleep for another 1-3 hours.
I live in Canada and for some reason this year I’m particularly surprised by the sun being already up at 5 am in June 😂
Yes, I feel you. I have lived in Middle Europe all my life but for me it is also weird when the sun rises at 5 am or even before that. Or in Winter when it is pitch dark in the middle of the afternoon already. I too thought, the US are way more up north until I actually visited the US and realized, just how far in the North we are. If it wasn't for the Golf stream, it would be much colder here all year long and you would realize it better I think.
I'm still shocked and so is my mom despite being born and raised here (I'm in my 30s) the best way to deal is just to go with the flow and get up early and enjoy the morning.
In the Netherlands it's even worse. That's because according to the location we should be in England's timezone, but due to some historic event we use Germany's timezone. So with daylight saving time in summer the time does not match the sun's position by two hours.
"Some historic event"... *coughww2cough*
(Same with the French)
@@untruelie2640 Yes we should join Spain, France and Belgium to go to the UK timezone just like Portugal did.
It is ridiculous that we have German time. It will be even worse when the daylight saving time will be abandoned (as those idiots from the EU want us to do) and then it will be "daylight savings time" all year around because some people believe that it makes their days longer.
Sun wil rise at 10 AM in winter...
@@Rob2 Only speak for yourself. (I'm german btw).
I've got the opposite experience. I started up north in Oregon and now am down in SoCal. The sun is so different and 19 years later I'm _almost_ used to the difference.
Long years ago, in the late 1990ies, I was for some time in Finland, mostly in Tampere, what is even in the South of the country, but shortly also in Rovaniemi in the north and in Vantaa nearby Helsinki - I left the country in April just at the 'switching' toward the long spring and summer days. The problem was not the temperature, in cold winters you can experience them in Germany as well. The real problem was the darkness. It was like a never-ending-november. You could barely do anything else than to work, to get drunken and to sleep - and that was it what I and my than collegues and friends mainly did all the days long there. Unfortunately we had to left Finland just at the moment of the 'awakening'. I promised to myself while leaving Finland to return somewhere in spring or summer. Unfortunately that doesn't happened until today for a couple of reasons. Remembering my own amount of consumption during my stay there I can understand better than before why the most nordic countries of our planet are also the main 'schnapps countries' of our planet - without any joke.
The sun is supposed to rise at 5:35am in Hong Kong of June. One early morning, I saw some light through the curtains at 5am, which it rose 35 minutes early, so I didn't go back to sleep and got the work done early
The sun peaked the horizon at 535a, but it gets light before that. There are 3 dawns/twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical).
Here in my place, the summers are often bright. 🌞The winters aren’t that dark. 🌚The summers get even brighter on the way to June. It gets really hot. 🥵In winter, it gets a bit darker on the way to December. But not that dark. And it gets really cold.🥶
I love your videos about your experience in Germany. I hope, you will get to know more amazing things about Germany.😍
Over here for the 4th of July it about 930 pm . I cant imagine still being very light outside at that time.
That's true. One tends to realize how cold it gets in the winter as one moves away from the equator, which is a _cold-weather_ discomfort for which cold-weather climates are usually well equipped. But one tends to forget (even after several days in a row of reminders) of such unnaturally long days and short nights which is a _warm-weather_ discomfort that appears as one moves away from the equator.
I live in Finland and at the moment (mid June) sun rises at 03:53 and sets at 22:49. Changing daytimes never bothered me before, but then I bought a wake up light. I had to stop using it, because at spring I started waking up earlier and earlier. Luckily it helped and now I wake up at 7 am even though sun has been up for three hours.
Berlin is even more extrem. When I move here from South Germany I was stunned seeing dusk til midnight in the summer. Then I went to Tromso in Norway and there is really light all night , before 1 am it not even gets really darker.
my family and i were once on vacation in denmark and later in sweden in summer, and even though i was used to it being light out until 10 pm or something in summer bc i live in north western germany, it felt really weird to go out into the garden to play volleyball at almost 12 am and you could still see, no problem...
I’m from Miramar Florida so I know what you mean. First time I went to Germany I got there in June and how late the sun was out really shocked me.
Funnily enough, last year I had a conversation about a very similar topic with my grandma (who had her 100th birthday this year and who has lived in Germany her whole life). We were talking about the fast change in daylight in spring and autumn and how it always ends up surprising you and I asked her: Do you ever get used to it and she said "no, every single year, the changes seem way too sudden and too extreme".
My very first day in Europe (Luxembourg) started with my waking up at 4:30 am.
I thought my watch was wrong! I had to go find a clock to double check because it was so bright.
I grew up at around 37°N. Then I moved about 10° north of that, and definitely got a bit of this. And then I went and lived in Berlin, for another 5° or so, and... yeah. This is a thing! :)
Happy almost Solstice, Dana. :)
My wife is from Ecuador. After 30ish years in the northeastern US, she has gotten used to the change, but her family, who visit periodically - not so much. Especially in the summer, that is one of the biggest things they all mention every time.
In my travels from Sweden to Thailand, I was amazed not only at the widely separated times of sunrises and sunsets, but also at the different speeds of day and night changes. The closer to the equator, the earlier and faster it got dark, and vice versa.
I was born in the North and I can't get used to midnight sun after moving back to Europe for Covid times. 5AM-6AM sunrise is very normal for the most time zones, but I can't get used to midnight sun in the evening, because as sun is up my body wants to eat at around 8PM-9PM. Mentally I think that I could go for another lunch in the evening. Big thick curtains are needed for summer months. I try to close curtains around 9PM so it gets dark in the room and body is preparing for sleep.
I moved from Connecticut to Florida, and the fact that in December, the sun was still out at 6:00 was pretty weird to me.
Cape Cod- sunlight before 5am and lately the sky still bright at 9pm
I live at 35.5°N in North Carolina, but I work at night and sleep in the morning. I sleep with a blanket on my head, covering my eyes but not my nose.
I hate it since I was born that the sun comes out so early in summer.
don't think you're weird.
i have lived in Germany for over 30 years and i still find myself trying to turn off the lights in the evening because i thought: "no way the sun's still out, so the lights must be on", when the sun was, indeed, still out.
i also never been outside of Germany for more than a few hours, when i visited the czech republic or poland on trips to buy cheap gas or alcohol or cigarettes for other people.
Wife and I live in central TX, but she's originally from Upstate New York, so I had much the same experience on my first trip there. LONG days in summer, starting very early. Then I went to Milan, Italy for business the next summer, and got an almost identical experience. It was very warm, considerably warmer than Upstate NY, but the same amount of daylight in the summer...since there and Milan are almost the same latitude, and much warmer than you would expect for that high latitude.
For me, what has been hard to adjust to (coming from the Midwest and having moved to Southern California) is the lack of twilight time. The closer you are to the poles, the more gradual this shift is - whereas in California, certainly in the summer, it's blazing hot and sunny, then suddenly, like 15 minutes later, it's night and pitch black. We really made the most of the twilight as a kid, playing hide and go seek, chasing fireflies, etc. Even having moved many years ago, I still find the difference catches me by surprise.
After 3 years in Munich, I am shocked at how short the days were during winter.
Early and late sunshine doesn’t bother me as much as early and late darkness. I’ve often thought how wonderful it would be to spend the northern hemisphere summers in Alaska or Svalbard and the northern hemisphere winters in Patagonia.
In the later 90’s I lived in the southern Caribbean and found the consistency of daylight hours depressing. I wanted MORE sunlight.
Being a Czech I have lived in Norway for a bit, where this is even more dramatic then in Czech Rep. or Germany. So I have encountered this a bit. And if you have a problem with waking up too early / falling asleep when the days are very very long, then thick blinds / curtains (und Fensterrolladen), that don't let any light through (obviously), that can be shut close in the evening, tend to work magic. An absolute must-have in Norway. Also a good, soft but tight eye-mask (like some airline companies provide) tend to help. But the curtain/shutters/Rolladen solution is the key.
I know you were probably not literally asking for an answer as to why you can't get used to this, but on the odd chance you are, or for anyone else reading this who may be wondering, I have a theory.
My theory is that you can't get used to it because it's different to what you became accustomed to in your formative years - so in your years before I don't know, maybe 6 years old, maybe older, maybe younger? So anything like the sunrise and sunset happening at significiently different times to what you experienced then will be difficult, perhaps (only _perhaps_, I am not an expert and this is just a theory) even impossible to get used to. I suspect if you had spent your say first 10 years of you life in Deutschland and moved to Florida as an adult, the sunrise and sunsets occurring so much later than what you've become used to would be equally difficult to get used to.
kinda makes sense, how else could people stay sane in places around the arctic circle :D
Oh LOL, I come from Munich but moved to Denmark three years ago and right now the sun rises at 4:30 AM - plus Danish houses generally don't have any inbuilt blinds like most German houses do. So that unfortunately still becomes a problem for me. Nights get shorter and shorter in summer and faaar too long in winter. Right now, I basically always pray that I won't wake up during the early morning because once I'm awake my body thinks the night is over.
The only time I experienced this was in London in January 1973. The morning rush hour was after 9am. Today I live in Minnesota which is a bit South of the latitude of Munich.
Yea, i live where it never gets dark in the summer .. and never gets bright in the winter. You get used to midnight sun ... not so much to ever lasting twilight. I do like the more pronounced seasons in Germany and central Europe.
but you got the aurora borealis in winter, which I have yet to see one day - must be beautiful!
Here in Maryland, USA (same latitude as Valencia, Spain) it's CRAZY BRIGHT at 5:30. I keep think I've overslept, and then realize I'm not supposed to be awake yet.
Today in Denmark the sun sets at 22.02.
I've been to the north of sweden in june, it was really bright at 3 am. Must be aweful in winter. Even in germany I suffer from the lack of daylight in winter (Winterdepression).
Here in the Netherlands we are even more to the north, and also more to the west. But we are in the same timezone as Germany, although according to our location on the map we should be in the timezone of England!
As we also have (same as Germany) daylight saving time in the summer, around June 21st the sun sets here at about 10:30 PM!
It remains twilight for some time after that, in fact during the weeks around June 21st it never gets completely dark when you look at the sky.
In the morning, the sunrise is a bit later than in Germany, but still before 6 AM. So the days are indeed very long when compared to countries more close to the equator.
Hehe we’re even farther north in Seattle! It’s light from 5am-9pm already. Throws off our dinner schedule because we never realize it’s time for dinner. Then again in the winter it’s only light from 8am-4pm and you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. We (Washington State) just voted to get rid of daylight savings time too, just waiting for congress to approve it!
I don't like it when the sun goes up so early, but it is as it is. I think I just sleep a bit less in the summer, and a bit more in the winter.
But what we have here is still moderate, compared to Scandinavia. Some years ago, I was in Finland for a music festival, it ended about 1 a.m., and it was still bright enough to read a map (it was before smartphones were popular, so I have used a city map). However, they use opaque curtains.
During the summer in Colorado it's still pretty light out at 9p, but it doesn't last long. Maybe a few weeks.
What's it like in winter? Here in Denver by November it's dark by 6p..
Great video! The reverse is true, too, of course. I found it hard to wrap my brain around the fact that New York is on the same latitude as Naples, and when I lived all the way up north in Maine, I was technically in southern France...
Ich lebe schon mein ganzen Leben in Österreich und es überrascht mich trotzdem jedes Jahr wie hell es morgens im Sommer ist. 😅
It's not so much the amount of daylight (indireclty it is), but the closer you come to the poles, the longer a sunrise/sunset takes. When I was in the Dominican Republic, which is closer to the equator than Florida is, it was light and bright outside at 6AM in November. Maybe it's a daylight savings kinda thing? If we didn't switch to summer time, it'd be 6.30 rather than 5.30. And think about this: The easternmost towns in Germany have the sunrise even sooner than Munich, or Cologne. Same time zone, but the sun is up there even sooner.
The first time I really thought about this, was when I watched the olympics in Rio in 2016 on TV. I was suprised how early the sun was going down.
Hey Dana ~ did you always live in Munich , or any other places in Germany / Bavaria ?
Seattle is about as far north as Munich, you get used to the long sun in the summer.
And that’s only the south of Germany . I once travelled to Nordfriesland , 55 degree N, and noticed a difference in how late the sun set there compared to Bavaria . Probably also had to do with the terrain, up there there are no mountains the sun could hide behind .
The light cycle with the long magic light evenings and nights in the summer and the equally long dark and dreary nights in the winters seems to be such an integral part of living in Northern Europe that's its just as hard for us to imagine living without it that is is for you to get used to
The song "Lyse nætter" by Danish singer Alberte Winding beautifully describes the the joy of those summer nights
1st trip to the Caribbean, flight arrives at 18:00 "we still have some dusk light to go to the sea" - nope. 1st mountain hike in Norway during summer: "let's go back before it's getting dark" - no worries.
Thats something with your settings.. have you tried to turn if off an on again? :D
... and speaking of Canada, Toronto is at 43.65 degrees north, which is about a six hour drive south of Seattle 😮
As an American, you usually think of Canada being north of you, but population-wise, it mostly isn't
Watching from NE Ohio. Still not used to it. Woke up this morning at 530 thinking the same thing! But I admit it is even worse over there. It always amazed me when I traveled to the EU how the sun rises even earlier.
Funny just had same conversation about night last night with my wife who is visiting Fort Myers and it was dark and we still had daylight.
I really noticed it not getting dark in the evenings when over in the UK.
New York shares the latitude with Madrid. And Florida shares the latitude with the Sahara, namely Miami is at the same latitude as Luxor in Egypt.
Here in Ireland the daylight seems to hold on even longer in summer and it feels like it is never completely pitch black which is interesting.
Perhaps you should use blackout blinds or something like this so the sun don't wake you up. I always use those. But other than this I enjoy the long days in germany, but I'm born here and have never been anywhere else for a long time, so know nothing else and think this is how it has to be. Oh those long summer nights! I love them! :-)
A good fixpoint to remember concerning the latitudes is: New York is about the same latitude as Rome.
Same and I live in Canada
I live in Scandinavia, so i am use to long days in the summer and long nights in the winter.
We've been on a road 11 year in a road to just above the Arctic circle. An boy did I stay up until 2am. Sleepy all day. Repeat.
Yap! My 4th summer in Germany, and I'm still not use to the never ending afternoons.
It's a problem if you want to do something in the summer which needs the dark. You need to wait a long time. I fly modelplanes with lights and in scuba diving you do nightdives. Not much sense before around 10-11 in the evening in summer. And probably not nice for astronomers.
I had to buy thick blinds for my bedroom windows in order to sleep properly.
i can imagine the problem about lattitude and where certain countries are, since the climate is similar, but in europe it's further north. i am regularly shocked when realising, that New York City is the same lattitude as rome. or that florida is lattitude of sahara desert
Eine Freundin von mir wohnt in Schweden. Wenn ich sie im Winter besuche, dann wird es gegen 15:00 Uhr dunkel - spätestens um 16:00 Uhr ist es dann dunkel. Dementsprechend ist es morgens lange dunkel.
Rome and NY are on the same latitude took me some time to accept lol
den Unterschied merkst du auch schon, wenn du im Sommer an der Nordsee bist!!! ( die Sonne verschwindet noch später...)
Hab im Campingurlaub am Skagerrak als Kind bis 23:00 Uhr draußen mit den anderen Kindern gespielt, erst danach wurde es zu dunkel.
Mnemonic for longitudes vs latitudes: If you look at a globe from the front, you will see the whole LENGTH of a LONGitude (from one pole to the other), but only part of a latitude because they go around. Also they go "LÄNGS" whereas latitudes go "quer" ^^
Latitude and Logitude is not so Complicated in german. Here it is Längengrade(long-degrees) und Breitengrade (wide-degrees). Kind of explains itself
Dana? Does your bedroom not have Rollladen? Close the Rollladen and you won't get woken at 5:30