Sunday, October 30, 2011
Do I really look that young?
So yesterday I was at this picnic that Jonas's school was throwing. A couple hours into the picnic the parents got out the glühwein and one of the women started to pass it around to the various people around the fire. She walks up to me and says, "Would you like some, wait, never mind you're too young." and walks away before I could even react. Now if this had taken place in the US it wouldn't of really made much of a difference to me since I only just turned 21 at the end of May. But this is Germany! The drinking age in Germany is 16! That woman had just accused me of being 15! Let's do some basic math here, 21 minus 15 equals 6. That woman thought I was 6 years younger than I am, at the least! I didn't even want to ask her how old she thought I was cause I was afraid of the answer I'd get. :( She thought I was 15... I went up to her afterwards cause I wanted some glühwein and I told her I was 21 and she said sorry but I should take it as a compliment cause that just means that in 10 years when I'm 31 people will think I'm 25 but still, once I get back to the states I'm gonna get carded till I"m 30 at places that never card anyone else! I'm sure I'll start to appreciate it as time goes by but right now I just want to go pout in a corner. Wah! And I bet I'll look even younger then! I can't win!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Yay Birthday Parties!
I have to say that I have a this whole year will probably bring me a whole new respect for my parents and how hard it is to raise kids. One of the key points being birthday parties. Today is Sunday the 11th of September and I am tired. But before I tell you all about today we're going to go back in time to Wednesday the 7th.
So Wednesday, what did I do wednesday? Clearly I need to update this more frequently so I don't forget what happened all the time. I'm actually drawing a complete blank as to what happened that day so I'm going to skip it for now.
Thursday the 8th. This I do remember! I'm pretty sure that on Thursday I took Luke to kindergarden and then I stopped by the new house to check out my room which was painted. I've got dark hardwood floors and 2 walls a light cream color and 2 walls a light blue.
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Wow. It's been over a month since I was updating this... The saddest thing is that I can't even remember too many details about the birthday parties. Suffice to say they were chaotic.
So since the whole day by day thing isn't working out for me I'm going to change tactics and switch over to the whole posting things that I want people to know thing.
First things first. I forgot to mention before but on my way to Aunt Tai's house I got pulled over! So when I got into the car to start the drive the first thing I did was get my navigation working before I left. Then I plugged in my iPod and I got the music working. Of course I was thinking that everything would work easily so I had already started driving. The music starts just fine but then I can't get back to the navigation. So I'm driving through the mountains trying to get my navigation working again so I'm swerving a little and driving slow but there's no one else on the road and I do make sure of that. By the point where I finally decide to give up on the navigation and just pull over on the other side of the mountain at a store I know I hadn't really looked behind me in a while. So I finally looked in the rear view mirror and shit, there's a cop right behind me. The first thought through my mind is I'm not speeding. I was probably driving about 70 km/h and the speed limit was 100 km/h. The second thought was I'm not going any faster cause I'm not used to the car and I wasn't as good with the road a month ago. So I keep going and the cop does nothing but it's not like he's going to take the next exit and leave me alone anytime soon since there are no exit's till the one that I'm going to take. I finally came up to the first roundabout and I was going to take the first exit so I turn on my turn signal before I get into the roundabout and take the first exit. Once out of the roundabout the first thing I do is check if the cop is still behind me. Of course he is! Yay me! Then a few seconds later I see that the lights above the car are now on and it reads stop pull over. Shit! So I think real quick in the US we're supposed to pull over where it's safe so I decide to keep going to where I was originally planning on going since it's right in front of me after a traffic light. The traffic light's red though so as I stop at the light the cop pulls up along side of me and rolls down his window, so I roll down my window. One of the cops in the car leans over and says hello so I say hello back though I said it back in more of a questioning tone. Then one of the cops asks me why I turned on my turn signal before entering the roundabout. I answered with I thought I was supposed to do that if I'm taking the first exit. The cop answered real nicely that I was supposed to wait until after I'd entered the roundabout before I turned on my turn signal. Then he say's just a tip for next time and that I can go. I can't even begin to tell you all how relieved I was! I mean look at it from my point of view, this is the first long drive I'm doing in Germany and I don't even get 10 km from the house before I get pulled over? Not a good sign.
I'm basically going to skip everything until now. The only thing of note we did was drive to Frankfurt and visit the Zoo but if you've seen one zoo you've seen em all.
So I'm not sure if I really know what I'm getting myself into with the weather. So it's already gotten below freezing and yesterday morning it was like 28 degrees Fahrenheit. So of course there was ice on the windshield of the car. I swear I spent like 10 minutes scraping the ice off! There's been frost on the grass for the past week too... Well, here's to hoping I don't freeze to death before you all see me again!
So Wednesday, what did I do wednesday? Clearly I need to update this more frequently so I don't forget what happened all the time. I'm actually drawing a complete blank as to what happened that day so I'm going to skip it for now.
Thursday the 8th. This I do remember! I'm pretty sure that on Thursday I took Luke to kindergarden and then I stopped by the new house to check out my room which was painted. I've got dark hardwood floors and 2 walls a light cream color and 2 walls a light blue.
This is a picture of one of the corners of my room so you can see the contrast between the white/cream the blue, and the dark floor
Obviously I took some pictures while I was there and since I decided to take my camera out I thought I might as well snap a couple pictures of the view I get to see out my window coming up in about a month and a half. So here's 2 pictures of that.
There's a road that goes across but from the angle I'm at I can't see it unless there's a car driving along it. I think it's a pretty good view!
After I checked out my room and thought about where I wanted my furniture I went shopping. Nothing super exciting there but I did manage to get some Fedderweissen and I found Brause Bonbons!!! Woot!!! Nothing in particular stands out about the rest of the day but I do remember that one of the kindergarden teachers referred to me as Lukes mom that day which I found amusing cause what must she think? There have been 3 different women who drop him off and pick him up. At least the other kindergarden teacher knows who the mom actually is.
Friday the 9th I once again dropped Luke off at kindergarden and headed over to the new house again. This time because I was doing a drink run. In regards to my drink run I picked up 11 cases to return and bought 16 cases with 8 going to the new house and 8 going to the current stable. I also did some other shopping for the things that I forgot to get the day before/couldn't find. After that I helped make grinatensplitter I probably spelled it wrong but oh well.
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Wow. It's been over a month since I was updating this... The saddest thing is that I can't even remember too many details about the birthday parties. Suffice to say they were chaotic.
So since the whole day by day thing isn't working out for me I'm going to change tactics and switch over to the whole posting things that I want people to know thing.
First things first. I forgot to mention before but on my way to Aunt Tai's house I got pulled over! So when I got into the car to start the drive the first thing I did was get my navigation working before I left. Then I plugged in my iPod and I got the music working. Of course I was thinking that everything would work easily so I had already started driving. The music starts just fine but then I can't get back to the navigation. So I'm driving through the mountains trying to get my navigation working again so I'm swerving a little and driving slow but there's no one else on the road and I do make sure of that. By the point where I finally decide to give up on the navigation and just pull over on the other side of the mountain at a store I know I hadn't really looked behind me in a while. So I finally looked in the rear view mirror and shit, there's a cop right behind me. The first thought through my mind is I'm not speeding. I was probably driving about 70 km/h and the speed limit was 100 km/h. The second thought was I'm not going any faster cause I'm not used to the car and I wasn't as good with the road a month ago. So I keep going and the cop does nothing but it's not like he's going to take the next exit and leave me alone anytime soon since there are no exit's till the one that I'm going to take. I finally came up to the first roundabout and I was going to take the first exit so I turn on my turn signal before I get into the roundabout and take the first exit. Once out of the roundabout the first thing I do is check if the cop is still behind me. Of course he is! Yay me! Then a few seconds later I see that the lights above the car are now on and it reads stop pull over. Shit! So I think real quick in the US we're supposed to pull over where it's safe so I decide to keep going to where I was originally planning on going since it's right in front of me after a traffic light. The traffic light's red though so as I stop at the light the cop pulls up along side of me and rolls down his window, so I roll down my window. One of the cops in the car leans over and says hello so I say hello back though I said it back in more of a questioning tone. Then one of the cops asks me why I turned on my turn signal before entering the roundabout. I answered with I thought I was supposed to do that if I'm taking the first exit. The cop answered real nicely that I was supposed to wait until after I'd entered the roundabout before I turned on my turn signal. Then he say's just a tip for next time and that I can go. I can't even begin to tell you all how relieved I was! I mean look at it from my point of view, this is the first long drive I'm doing in Germany and I don't even get 10 km from the house before I get pulled over? Not a good sign.
I'm basically going to skip everything until now. The only thing of note we did was drive to Frankfurt and visit the Zoo but if you've seen one zoo you've seen em all.
So I'm not sure if I really know what I'm getting myself into with the weather. So it's already gotten below freezing and yesterday morning it was like 28 degrees Fahrenheit. So of course there was ice on the windshield of the car. I swear I spent like 10 minutes scraping the ice off! There's been frost on the grass for the past week too... Well, here's to hoping I don't freeze to death before you all see me again!
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