sentences:  Weeks before the kermis, the "Straußjugend" (the "Strauß" youth – "Strauß" is used here in a non-standard meaning; it means a log festooned with colourful streamers here, not a bouquet, not a set of feathers on a helmet, and certainly not an ostrich) gather to set about working on the kermis.Most of the work entails decorating the "Strauß" – which has only actually been made out of a spruce log since the early 1960s – onto which up to 25,000 paper streamers in thick, long rows are bound.Formerly, the "Strauß" was a spruce sapling onto whose twigs colourful bands, bows and glossy paper were stuck.