Shel Silverstine has been turning ourimaginations upside-down and inside out since our first days in the school library,since our first days of storytime before bed. The Missing Peice, The Giving Tree, or just silly poems such as Backward Bill--teaching us and making us see things not the way theyare but the way they could be. Because of him and Dr. Seuss and so many other children's writers we learned at that age that words are not just for communication: Words a toys that one can use for almost anything and that you never grow out of. Words are bridges and blocks and musical instruments and there is no limit to them. They extend for miles in every language and because we created the languages, we can always make new ones.
"Listen to the MUSTN'Ts, child,
Listen tot he DON'Ts,
Listen to the SHOULDN'Ts,
The IMPOSSIBLEs, the WON'Ts
Listen to the NEVER HAVEs
then listen close to me--
ANYTHING can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be."
-Shel Silverstine
So thank you: You are one thing in my life that I would be completely different without.
Samstag, 11. Juni 2011
Montag, 6. Juni 2011
Dem Rothaarigen Mädel geht es sehr gut.
(The redhead is very well)
Why? Well let's see:
Though the redhead's soccer team did not win their big game last saturday, they fought hard and worked together as a team and tied in the bi-polar Weather. I call the weather bi-polar because it was really fracking hot and then at half time it began suddenly to rain, without warning; though this was fantastic, it was also very strange because as I say, it was really sunny and really hot. As far as I'm concerned we won because we fought as hard as we could and we could never have stopped the one goal that went in because after all it was a really dumb one. But as I say: we tied and because we tied and the team that was one place below us lost, we are in third place for the season, baby!! But every good part is accompanied by the bad: and because I am so proud of my girls here and I will be sad to leave them and miss them for sure next season. : (
I have been planning my next month or so and have realized that I have ABSOLUTELY NO FREE WEEKENDS LEFT. Everything is so crazy. This next weekend my family and I are going to Korsika (a tiny island that belongs to France in the Middle Sea.....I mean Med. Sea!) and going to cover myself with WAY TOO MUCH SUNSCREEN because we know what happens to pale little Deni in sunny weather (and the reminder is still viewable on my poor wittle back), then the next weekend I will be going to this cool Medieval Fest in Waiblingen with a friend of mine and chill, the weekend after that I shall be off hiking with some friends, then the weekend after that in Kassel (and we will be watching HP7 part2 at midnight!!!!!!!!!!), and then my father comes. That's how close it is! My father will be here six weekends from now as my time ticks slowly away, down to the home-bound arrival that I both don't want and yet long for.
Now I will stop babbling at you because I got things to do and essays to writing and time to enjoy!
You should go enjoy yours!
Deni
Why? Well let's see:
Though the redhead's soccer team did not win their big game last saturday, they fought hard and worked together as a team and tied in the bi-polar Weather. I call the weather bi-polar because it was really fracking hot and then at half time it began suddenly to rain, without warning; though this was fantastic, it was also very strange because as I say, it was really sunny and really hot. As far as I'm concerned we won because we fought as hard as we could and we could never have stopped the one goal that went in because after all it was a really dumb one. But as I say: we tied and because we tied and the team that was one place below us lost, we are in third place for the season, baby!! But every good part is accompanied by the bad: and because I am so proud of my girls here and I will be sad to leave them and miss them for sure next season. : (
I have been planning my next month or so and have realized that I have ABSOLUTELY NO FREE WEEKENDS LEFT. Everything is so crazy. This next weekend my family and I are going to Korsika (a tiny island that belongs to France in the Middle Sea.....I mean Med. Sea!) and going to cover myself with WAY TOO MUCH SUNSCREEN because we know what happens to pale little Deni in sunny weather (and the reminder is still viewable on my poor wittle back), then the next weekend I will be going to this cool Medieval Fest in Waiblingen with a friend of mine and chill, the weekend after that I shall be off hiking with some friends, then the weekend after that in Kassel (and we will be watching HP7 part2 at midnight!!!!!!!!!!), and then my father comes. That's how close it is! My father will be here six weekends from now as my time ticks slowly away, down to the home-bound arrival that I both don't want and yet long for.
Now I will stop babbling at you because I got things to do and essays to writing and time to enjoy!
You should go enjoy yours!
Deni
Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2011
The redhead has things to say.
But first: Happy June! and Happy Father's Day!
I shall be calling my father later tonight. (I wrote it on my arm so that I DO NOT forget.)
Today I awoke at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and had to rub my eyes a few times before I was convinced that I hadn't read the time wrong. I had been sleeping for 12 hours! I had no idea how I could have possibly done that, but I got up and changed and ate brunch, finding out that my host family were a little worried about me and how long I slept. But I'm fine, just tired.
Since this morning I think I have discovered why I slept so incredibly long this morning. It starts with a strange victory of yesterday that sent my goody-two-shoes, american concious into a perfuse sweat: I bought my very first beer in a super market. Alone and with my one money--and I was so proud of myself.
I bought two Beck lemon and lime beers to bring with me to a little grill party that our class was having at the YMCA center (here YMCA is a different bunch of four letters but I forget what they are: anyway, you get the point.). So I brought them with as well as much appreciated marshmallows (because what is a fire without smores?) and a few Rotwurst for myself. It was quite a nice evening, just sitting, talking, laughing. We ate cookies and played on the nearby playground a little to, because, let's face it, Swings are the BOMB.
We also started telling riddles at one point starting with this one which I will write in German and English because in German it sounds a little better:
Der blaue Punkt geht ins Wasser, der grüne Punkt geht in der Wiese, der rote Punkt geht ins Feuer. Wo geht der gelbe Punkt?
The blue dot goes in Water, the green dot goes in the grass field, the red dot goes in the fire. Where does the yellow dot go?
After a rather long time contemplating it in actually seriousness no one knew andwe asked our friend who told us to give us the answer. And he refused, something that made this particular riddle a Plague of the evening consuming almost everyone's thoughts. So we tried to distracted ourselves, we played other games like 20 questions, we ate the marshmallows. Eventually we started playing campfire songs which reminded me horribly of home but also reminded me how awesome my friends and my experiences are here. But finally the yellow dot was getting to be quite annoying because no one could solve it and noone would give the answer. We went on likethis for an hour until we decided to leave and were all quite annoyed that the answer was "Der gelbe Punkt geht auf die Nerven" (The yellow dot gets on your nerves.).
During the course of this nice little get together I managed to drink both beers, because I was thirsty and they were good, but I showed really no sign of it, because I ate things in between and drank them sparingly (as they were the only drinks I had with) the only sign of me drinking them at all were the empty bottles and, I suspect, my 12 hour sleep.
In other news we started reading "the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon in English and I think it is a fantastic book. If you havenot read it yet, I would highly reccomend it.
Anyway, thanks for reading and subscribing! Keep a smile on (:
Deni
I shall be calling my father later tonight. (I wrote it on my arm so that I DO NOT forget.)
Today I awoke at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and had to rub my eyes a few times before I was convinced that I hadn't read the time wrong. I had been sleeping for 12 hours! I had no idea how I could have possibly done that, but I got up and changed and ate brunch, finding out that my host family were a little worried about me and how long I slept. But I'm fine, just tired.
Since this morning I think I have discovered why I slept so incredibly long this morning. It starts with a strange victory of yesterday that sent my goody-two-shoes, american concious into a perfuse sweat: I bought my very first beer in a super market. Alone and with my one money--and I was so proud of myself.
I bought two Beck lemon and lime beers to bring with me to a little grill party that our class was having at the YMCA center (here YMCA is a different bunch of four letters but I forget what they are: anyway, you get the point.). So I brought them with as well as much appreciated marshmallows (because what is a fire without smores?) and a few Rotwurst for myself. It was quite a nice evening, just sitting, talking, laughing. We ate cookies and played on the nearby playground a little to, because, let's face it, Swings are the BOMB.
We also started telling riddles at one point starting with this one which I will write in German and English because in German it sounds a little better:
Der blaue Punkt geht ins Wasser, der grüne Punkt geht in der Wiese, der rote Punkt geht ins Feuer. Wo geht der gelbe Punkt?
The blue dot goes in Water, the green dot goes in the grass field, the red dot goes in the fire. Where does the yellow dot go?
After a rather long time contemplating it in actually seriousness no one knew andwe asked our friend who told us to give us the answer. And he refused, something that made this particular riddle a Plague of the evening consuming almost everyone's thoughts. So we tried to distracted ourselves, we played other games like 20 questions, we ate the marshmallows. Eventually we started playing campfire songs which reminded me horribly of home but also reminded me how awesome my friends and my experiences are here. But finally the yellow dot was getting to be quite annoying because no one could solve it and noone would give the answer. We went on likethis for an hour until we decided to leave and were all quite annoyed that the answer was "Der gelbe Punkt geht auf die Nerven" (The yellow dot gets on your nerves.).
During the course of this nice little get together I managed to drink both beers, because I was thirsty and they were good, but I showed really no sign of it, because I ate things in between and drank them sparingly (as they were the only drinks I had with) the only sign of me drinking them at all were the empty bottles and, I suspect, my 12 hour sleep.
In other news we started reading "the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon in English and I think it is a fantastic book. If you havenot read it yet, I would highly reccomend it.
Anyway, thanks for reading and subscribing! Keep a smile on (:
Deni
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