The first sesame street clip I saw in german was called,"Die Unterschied zwischen hier und da."(The difference between here and there) (click here to see "unterschied zwischen hier und da!") and when I got here and Christian started up the car to drive out of Frankfurt, I felt like I was in one of those picture games that I played when I was little. The game where you must find all the differences between the two pictures to win. The biggest difference I found was, here when I try to communicate I feel really dumb and slow, which is a very helpless pathetic feeling. But each time I feel this way I simply remind myself that the first step to wisdom is admiting ignorance.One day everyday will be much easier.... one day I will stop typing "z" when I am trying to type "y". (The letters are switched on this german keyboard)
But I like Germany so far. It is much more compact than America, much narrower streets that wind around and the houses are all beautiful and old. I've been in places much older than America itself and though I thought coming here and seeing these places and walking around would make me feel different , make me feel like a new person, it really doesn't. (Unless of course, you count clumsiness and curiousity, both of which I havemore now it seems, than ever before.) While Christian (my host dad) and I walked through town today a gianormous truck flew past me and I being on the sidewalk next to it jumped three feet in the air because if I had flung my arm out I could have lost it! Christian laughed at me and I laughed too because trucks pass all the time and the germans around us looked at me very strangely. Otherwise the doors inside the house are slightly different.The lightswitches are slightly different also in the way that they are more square and you press down on either bottom or top to make it on or off. they are also sometimes more outside the rooms than usual and they are mostly waist height. (At least they are here, I've only been in one house so far.)
The food is soooooooo good. You have no idea, it's simply amazing in an unexplainable way. Richer, I suppose. but here it is also the same in that there are still churches and people and street signs and houses. And afterall this is someone's hometown and homeland too, just like the United States is mine. It is old and new, confusing and understandable, the easiest and the wierdest thing that has ever happened to me. AND I LOVE IT (:
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