Spring in Germany is in full spring. The temperatures have been in the 70's Fahrenheit, flowers are everywhere and there are birds chirping (literally) outside my window. Which makes it a great time to reflect on "chag ha'aviv" or the holiday of spring, another name for passover. The last few weeks have been full of Passover preparation, activities and of course seders. Before Pessach we continued our jewish cooking tradition in Duisburg making something I never thought I'd cook, gefillte fish. Thank goodness for Marina who took the lead in handling all the fish and filling (get it geFILLte? German/ Yiddish is such fun!) all the fish heads with cod. Luckily I was able to work on the matzah balls instead. For the first night I decided to have my very own seder. I've never led a seder before and I had a few friends with nowhere to go for the holiday so I figured it would be fun to band together and celebrate. I put toge