While I’m Waiting
It’s nice to be here and enjoy some Christmas Candy. I’m totally soaking up everything Christmassy around here to hopefully be annoyed by it by the time I get to the States. You won’t believe how joyous (yeah joyful joy) I was when Juliane and I got out of the subway at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz and there was some market to promote skiing in Austria a Christmas market going on! Yeah, November 8th seems a bit early (or maybe it was the fact that it was before noon) to drink mulled wine but I beg to differ! Add some roasted almonds to the game and you have two happy girls! Joy to the world, I’m not missing out on all the German Christmas Joy! *bites into chocolate covered ginger bread and marzipan potatoes*
PS: My flights are booked for next Friday!
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Potatoland
Having lived with my Italian roommate for three weeks, I learned that Italians eat loads of pasta with (almost) every meal. Well, having lived with my family again for 5 days, I realized that Germans eat loads of potatos. I can’t see them anymore! Enough already. Let’s see, Thursday we had potatos and veggies, Friday I had to cook potatos and steak strips, Saturday I actually had to go to our field and help pick potatos from the soil (oh jolly farm life…), Sunday we had potatoes, cabbage and chicken curry, and today I had to make fried potatos for lunch (which was breakfast for me due to my still messed up internal clock). Enough!!!
Things I Appreciate About Germany
– The newly warm summers with temperatures near 30°C in June (and from what I hear also in April). Yay global warming – harr harrr (Hope it doesn’t get any warmer but then again, we only have June, how’s August going to be?!).
– Most (new) cars now have airconditioning and my parents thankfully have one car with AC and Mom wants to get a new one WITH AC – Yay!
– The variety of frozen pizzas is amazing! Even in the US, the country with mile long shelves and gazillion different types of cereal I couldn’t find as many different types of frozen pizza.
– Same goes for cheese. I hear there are more types of cheese in Germany than in the Netherlands!
– Same goes for tea can’t beat that either and I’m sick of Irish Breakfast Tea!
– People don’t seem as rude as they usually seem to be when I come back from the US. I guess maybe the contrast to the Irish isn’t as big as to the Americans.
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