New mindbogglingly clumsy accomplishments:
Pick up her hoody and knocking over a glass, shattering it into a million peiced simultaneously.
Skipping home from soccer practice and overturning a compost trash can on the way.
Dropping a peice of pumpkin pie covered in whip creme onto the couch (the plates were slippery though!)
(:
Freitag, 26. November 2010
The redhead has been a very bad, bad blogger lately...
and she apologizes heartily.
And quite a few things have come to pass. First of all, of course, the seventh Harry Potter film part one has arrived in theaters. And this redheaded geektastic child did not miss it, oh no. This geektastic child went the sunday after it came out with her friend Jasmine. She put on her special crazy stockings, a homemade harry potter t-shirt and her Time Turner (aka harry potter gangster bling-blang) and set out in pouring rain on her bike for the train station about an hour before her train left for Waiblingen.... because she was really excited. However, coming to the bahnhof early wasn't her most fantastic idea because it is outside. And though she had a bench and a little roof to stop her from becoming excessively wet, it was cold. Very, unbaribly cold (such as it normally is in November, go figure). So she read what she could of the her German copy of Harry Potter trying to finish anough that she remembers everything and waited for the train. People came and left, leaving her alone on the cold bench until finally the time came to leave... and the train was twenty minutes late. OF COURSE. But it all went fine. She and her friend walked two blocks to the theater and reveled in the warmth of the cramped theater with it's winding staircase. they climbed up and up to the top most theater, the one by a 1 stall bathroom that later would become an irritation and a relief as the movie ended.
The theater it self was smallish, but cosy with cushy seats and glowing lights hanging from the ceiling as stars. It also had a few strange differences from American theaters. First, when you buy tickets you buy them for specific seats like in dramatic theater and you MUST sit there or you would be breaking rules and system (something very frowned upon by the Germans). And also, each row of seats had a small shelf stuck on the back of it where the row behind could place food, drinks, and candy which I thought was quite better and more ingenious as the american ones. The movie was good as far as i was concerned. It was quite by the book except for of course the Horcrux scene, which featured some radical over exaggerations of things that were both annoying and innopropriate! but everything else was good, at least for Hollywood.
In the midst of the film I found that i had an incredibly full bladder which was annoying but managed to be less important as I became more and more absorbed int he movie, but when it was done and i stood up, I naturally made a break for it and came to the back of a short-ish line. we arrived home safely and I wore my dorky t-shirt (that was in german by the way) to school the next day and my friends of course thought i was ridiculous and crazy (at least I'm a positive American stereotype).
On Monday I got my first english test back which was a 1- (kind of like an A- except kind of harder to get) and all my class mates were very curious as to how the "-" came in. It ended up that due to my unexposure to English class I forgot to use my "formal" english speech and so, when one of the question asked me what the how the boy in the text we read felt about the girl in the text we read I wrote, literally,"He wants to get in her pants". Which isn't wrong but was less favorable as opposed to "He thinks she is beautiful and would love to be her boyfriend" or something like that. (Personally, I like mine better)
All week a bunch of my classes having been absent too because of teacher illnesses. Here, substitute teacher don't really exist. When a teacher can't attend the class because of holiday or sickness you just don't have the class, which is actually nice as opposed to pretending that you are actually learning something fom the substitute.
The really rouch day however, was Thursday of course. Thanksgiving. It is one thing to say you are not seeing your family for a year it is another when days like christmas and thanksgiving arrive where your mother's mashed potatoes and kisses usually fill you up with love and instead of the normal full table and fancy china and pumpkin pie you have a 10 hour day of school and a Physics test to study for. The only thing that was largely a comfort to me was the thought that after this year I will probably never have to be away from family on thanksgiving or the holidays ever again.
GUESS WHO's NOT GOING FAR AWAY FOR COLLEGE?
Deni
And quite a few things have come to pass. First of all, of course, the seventh Harry Potter film part one has arrived in theaters. And this redheaded geektastic child did not miss it, oh no. This geektastic child went the sunday after it came out with her friend Jasmine. She put on her special crazy stockings, a homemade harry potter t-shirt and her Time Turner (aka harry potter gangster bling-blang) and set out in pouring rain on her bike for the train station about an hour before her train left for Waiblingen.... because she was really excited. However, coming to the bahnhof early wasn't her most fantastic idea because it is outside. And though she had a bench and a little roof to stop her from becoming excessively wet, it was cold. Very, unbaribly cold (such as it normally is in November, go figure). So she read what she could of the her German copy of Harry Potter trying to finish anough that she remembers everything and waited for the train. People came and left, leaving her alone on the cold bench until finally the time came to leave... and the train was twenty minutes late. OF COURSE. But it all went fine. She and her friend walked two blocks to the theater and reveled in the warmth of the cramped theater with it's winding staircase. they climbed up and up to the top most theater, the one by a 1 stall bathroom that later would become an irritation and a relief as the movie ended.
The theater it self was smallish, but cosy with cushy seats and glowing lights hanging from the ceiling as stars. It also had a few strange differences from American theaters. First, when you buy tickets you buy them for specific seats like in dramatic theater and you MUST sit there or you would be breaking rules and system (something very frowned upon by the Germans). And also, each row of seats had a small shelf stuck on the back of it where the row behind could place food, drinks, and candy which I thought was quite better and more ingenious as the american ones. The movie was good as far as i was concerned. It was quite by the book except for of course the Horcrux scene, which featured some radical over exaggerations of things that were both annoying and innopropriate! but everything else was good, at least for Hollywood.
In the midst of the film I found that i had an incredibly full bladder which was annoying but managed to be less important as I became more and more absorbed int he movie, but when it was done and i stood up, I naturally made a break for it and came to the back of a short-ish line. we arrived home safely and I wore my dorky t-shirt (that was in german by the way) to school the next day and my friends of course thought i was ridiculous and crazy (at least I'm a positive American stereotype).
On Monday I got my first english test back which was a 1- (kind of like an A- except kind of harder to get) and all my class mates were very curious as to how the "-" came in. It ended up that due to my unexposure to English class I forgot to use my "formal" english speech and so, when one of the question asked me what the how the boy in the text we read felt about the girl in the text we read I wrote, literally,"He wants to get in her pants". Which isn't wrong but was less favorable as opposed to "He thinks she is beautiful and would love to be her boyfriend" or something like that. (Personally, I like mine better)
All week a bunch of my classes having been absent too because of teacher illnesses. Here, substitute teacher don't really exist. When a teacher can't attend the class because of holiday or sickness you just don't have the class, which is actually nice as opposed to pretending that you are actually learning something fom the substitute.
The really rouch day however, was Thursday of course. Thanksgiving. It is one thing to say you are not seeing your family for a year it is another when days like christmas and thanksgiving arrive where your mother's mashed potatoes and kisses usually fill you up with love and instead of the normal full table and fancy china and pumpkin pie you have a 10 hour day of school and a Physics test to study for. The only thing that was largely a comfort to me was the thought that after this year I will probably never have to be away from family on thanksgiving or the holidays ever again.
GUESS WHO's NOT GOING FAR AWAY FOR COLLEGE?
Deni
Donnerstag, 4. November 2010
The redhead is making pancakes.
And while she was she found it hard to find a few things and thought she would let you know the plus and minuses of eating in Germany....
I've always believed in starting on a bad note and going to a good note, because in the end you're always happy... or at least in this case I will be, you guys might be jealous at the end... whatever, I'm gonna stop rambling now, you get what I mean.
The tragedy of German food:
1. Sweetpoatoes are REALLY freaking expensive here and so we don't have sweet potatoes... ever. At all.
2. Peanut butter, maple syrup, and chocolate chips are all very rare and when you do find them they are also very, very expensive and usually come in very annoyingly small portions.
3. Oreos, otherwise known as "Milk's favorite cookie" are virtually unknown, but are available. However, Double Stuf Oreos do not and the regular kind of oreos only come 16 to a package. Which is not enough AND is an even number.... and If you are a person who must eat an odd number of cookies (like me) you will have severe difficulty accomplishing that.
4. And FINALLY, Reeses peanut butter cups are UNavailable. Everywhere in Germany. Possibly everywhere in Europe. (to the extent of my knowledge)
The successes of German food:
1, 2, 3, &4. There are at least four fresh Bakeries in the vasinity of where I live. FRESH BREAD. EVERY MORNING. NUFF SAID.
5. Two words: Rot Wurst or in German one word: Rotwurst
6. Marzipan.
7. Though I have not tried it, but I know that the Beer is fantastic and definitely has much more variety here than in America.
8. Schnitzel.
9. ALL THE KUCHEN. (:
This has been the pros and cons of German cusine with Deni, thank you for tuning in.
I'm going to go make pancakes for my family for dinner and eat it with VERY EXPENSIVE maple syrup. Have a nice day. (:
I've always believed in starting on a bad note and going to a good note, because in the end you're always happy... or at least in this case I will be, you guys might be jealous at the end... whatever, I'm gonna stop rambling now, you get what I mean.
The tragedy of German food:
1. Sweetpoatoes are REALLY freaking expensive here and so we don't have sweet potatoes... ever. At all.
2. Peanut butter, maple syrup, and chocolate chips are all very rare and when you do find them they are also very, very expensive and usually come in very annoyingly small portions.
3. Oreos, otherwise known as "Milk's favorite cookie" are virtually unknown, but are available. However, Double Stuf Oreos do not and the regular kind of oreos only come 16 to a package. Which is not enough AND is an even number.... and If you are a person who must eat an odd number of cookies (like me) you will have severe difficulty accomplishing that.
4. And FINALLY, Reeses peanut butter cups are UNavailable. Everywhere in Germany. Possibly everywhere in Europe. (to the extent of my knowledge)
The successes of German food:
1, 2, 3, &4. There are at least four fresh Bakeries in the vasinity of where I live. FRESH BREAD. EVERY MORNING. NUFF SAID.
5. Two words: Rot Wurst or in German one word: Rotwurst
6. Marzipan.
7. Though I have not tried it, but I know that the Beer is fantastic and definitely has much more variety here than in America.
8. Schnitzel.
9. ALL THE KUCHEN. (:
This has been the pros and cons of German cusine with Deni, thank you for tuning in.
I'm going to go make pancakes for my family for dinner and eat it with VERY EXPENSIVE maple syrup. Have a nice day. (:
Dienstag, 2. November 2010
The redhead is anxiously awaiting the midterm election results.
.... because she is a dork like that.
But I'm not going to talk about politics tonight, I am simply going to say, GO VOTE DUDE (if you haven't already and you can).
But while my fellow american were out standing in the cold waiting to vote or getting controversial robocalls, I was hiking through the Black Forrest, a place complete uncontroversial for it's amazing beauty. (jealous?)
This morning I woke up to the radio singing Alejandro by Lady GaGa. A song which normally would make me jam and sing aloud, but in this case made my roll into a tight ball under my covers and seriously regret reading "five more minutes" (2 more hours) than usual the night before. Once I was reasonably alive enough to function on a basic level, I joined in the frantic frenzy of breakfast eating, lunch packing, and backpack stuffing that preceded our day's adventure. At 8:40 we jumped in the car, clicked in our seatbelts and thundercats were definitely a-go.
An hour or so later we arrived at which point I found out it was really freaking cold and was very proud of myself for having provided in my bag a hand, pair of mittens, and H&M scarf that was amazingly warm and happy. I dawned it all, covering my mouth and nose with the scarf as well, giving my host family a good laugh in the process. In retrospect I'm sure I did look pretty freaking ridiculous and compared to the seasoned, long-sleeved t-shirt wearing Black forrest dwellers I stuck out like a sore thumb. We began our journey, finding the coolest path that took us alongside a creek in a little narrow path giving us much more close surface area to appreciate. And somehow I managed to manveuver a camera WHILE walking (!!!) which I find a great accomplishment considering that 1) the path had random roots and rocks jerking out at odd angles (you know like a normal forrest path should) and 2) I am the clumsiest person alive.
The forrest was vast and tall, it's hundred year old branches reaching out bare to us like arms looking for solace, and we must have looked like living action figures crawling between pairs of giant's feet. The trees grew straight and parallel for the most part to one another stretching so far towards the heavens that the sun probably had no idea where we were. They grew on earth and big boulders with full heads of spongey green, rich alien hair. (German word of the day: Moos=moss.) Mixed in with the tall pines and coniferious trees filling our noses with old book smell where bright Deciduous trees in different shades of orange. they where fire raining down on us with the gentle breeze and carpeting our path and as we walked they whispered the unison lullaby with each of our steps (Swish, swash, swish, swash). Once we made our way to lunch time we had come to a large castle with a beauty of a view. We ate our sandwiches and apples and decided that maybe once we got back to the car we would find a cute bakery and have some cake.
So we did. We made our way back, arrived at the car, packed it all in and drove five minutes to a cute little town with a hard to find bakery that over supplied our cake needs with nine or ten different types of cake making our mouths water. I went with a nice, classic Apple cake and really loved it.
That was my day! Hope you had a great one! Hope you had a great halloween! We just ended up playing board games here and carving a pumpkin or two. But don't go thinking pumpkin carving is popular! Actually we were probably the only ones in our town. We had one trick or treater and she was our neighbor. so halloween wasn#t a big blow out but hey, it's a small price to pay for the experience I'm having here!
Sorry for not posting in a while, I really have no excuse either because I've been on break but regardless, have a great week and drück die Daumen for the 112th Congress!
Machts Gut!
Deni
But I'm not going to talk about politics tonight, I am simply going to say, GO VOTE DUDE (if you haven't already and you can).
But while my fellow american were out standing in the cold waiting to vote or getting controversial robocalls, I was hiking through the Black Forrest, a place complete uncontroversial for it's amazing beauty. (jealous?)
This morning I woke up to the radio singing Alejandro by Lady GaGa. A song which normally would make me jam and sing aloud, but in this case made my roll into a tight ball under my covers and seriously regret reading "five more minutes" (2 more hours) than usual the night before. Once I was reasonably alive enough to function on a basic level, I joined in the frantic frenzy of breakfast eating, lunch packing, and backpack stuffing that preceded our day's adventure. At 8:40 we jumped in the car, clicked in our seatbelts and thundercats were definitely a-go.
An hour or so later we arrived at which point I found out it was really freaking cold and was very proud of myself for having provided in my bag a hand, pair of mittens, and H&M scarf that was amazingly warm and happy. I dawned it all, covering my mouth and nose with the scarf as well, giving my host family a good laugh in the process. In retrospect I'm sure I did look pretty freaking ridiculous and compared to the seasoned, long-sleeved t-shirt wearing Black forrest dwellers I stuck out like a sore thumb. We began our journey, finding the coolest path that took us alongside a creek in a little narrow path giving us much more close surface area to appreciate. And somehow I managed to manveuver a camera WHILE walking (!!!) which I find a great accomplishment considering that 1) the path had random roots and rocks jerking out at odd angles (you know like a normal forrest path should) and 2) I am the clumsiest person alive.
The forrest was vast and tall, it's hundred year old branches reaching out bare to us like arms looking for solace, and we must have looked like living action figures crawling between pairs of giant's feet. The trees grew straight and parallel for the most part to one another stretching so far towards the heavens that the sun probably had no idea where we were. They grew on earth and big boulders with full heads of spongey green, rich alien hair. (German word of the day: Moos=moss.) Mixed in with the tall pines and coniferious trees filling our noses with old book smell where bright Deciduous trees in different shades of orange. they where fire raining down on us with the gentle breeze and carpeting our path and as we walked they whispered the unison lullaby with each of our steps (Swish, swash, swish, swash). Once we made our way to lunch time we had come to a large castle with a beauty of a view. We ate our sandwiches and apples and decided that maybe once we got back to the car we would find a cute bakery and have some cake.
So we did. We made our way back, arrived at the car, packed it all in and drove five minutes to a cute little town with a hard to find bakery that over supplied our cake needs with nine or ten different types of cake making our mouths water. I went with a nice, classic Apple cake and really loved it.
That was my day! Hope you had a great one! Hope you had a great halloween! We just ended up playing board games here and carving a pumpkin or two. But don't go thinking pumpkin carving is popular! Actually we were probably the only ones in our town. We had one trick or treater and she was our neighbor. so halloween wasn#t a big blow out but hey, it's a small price to pay for the experience I'm having here!
Sorry for not posting in a while, I really have no excuse either because I've been on break but regardless, have a great week and drück die Daumen for the 112th Congress!
Machts Gut!
Deni
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