you may have seen this before...
hmm. my blog seems to have disappeared. i guess that's what i get for using internet cafes. but i happen to have this one in email form, so i'm posting it again. sorry if you've seen it already.
7. september
i was kind of in a hurry yesterday, because i was in a rather pricy internet cafe, so i left out a few important things: first, a huge thank you to mel for hosting me for all of last week and generally being the goddess of domesticity, not to mention introducing me to the chaos that is john's hostel. good times. second, i just wanted to let you all know that there are some good people here in deutschland--the kind who see a silly american girl with far more stuff than she can carry and offer to help, even to the point of locking up their bikes and walking across the street and back a block and half in the direction from whence they just came. so cheers to good people everywhere!!
in other news, i think if this whole germany thing doesn't work out, i'm going to move to switzerland. when i got back to the hostel last night, two of my roommates were there, one in the shower and the other on the phone. so i said hallo and went about my business. then i realized, hey, she sounds like she's from switzerland!! (thanks, simone!) so she gets off the phone, says hi, and i proceed to announce/ask if she's from switzerland, which, indeed she is. she and her friend are taking a mini-vacation in germany. then she proceeds to state that i'm from here, right? hell yes, she thinks i'm german!! score!!! (p.s. this never happens. usually, the second i open my mouth, people switch to english, even when my german is perfectly understandable, because it's THAT obvious that i'm american.) but really, all of the swiss people i've ever known--you know, all 3 of them =)--have been super nice.
of course, i can't actually afford to live in switzerland, so this isn't really an issue, but you know, if things go sour in künzelsau, and let's face it, i mean, the town is called künzelsau, you'll know where to look for me =) by the way, every german who finds out where i'm going, either makes a face and says, they've never heard of it, but what a funny name for a town, or they make the same disdainful face and say, yeah, they've heard of it... super. i mean, like i'm not nervous enough already!
now playing: sufjan stevens (thanks, mel!)
book of the moment: franny and zooey, by j.d. salinger
7. september
i was kind of in a hurry yesterday, because i was in a rather pricy internet cafe, so i left out a few important things: first, a huge thank you to mel for hosting me for all of last week and generally being the goddess of domesticity, not to mention introducing me to the chaos that is john's hostel. good times. second, i just wanted to let you all know that there are some good people here in deutschland--the kind who see a silly american girl with far more stuff than she can carry and offer to help, even to the point of locking up their bikes and walking across the street and back a block and half in the direction from whence they just came. so cheers to good people everywhere!!
in other news, i think if this whole germany thing doesn't work out, i'm going to move to switzerland. when i got back to the hostel last night, two of my roommates were there, one in the shower and the other on the phone. so i said hallo and went about my business. then i realized, hey, she sounds like she's from switzerland!! (thanks, simone!) so she gets off the phone, says hi, and i proceed to announce/ask if she's from switzerland, which, indeed she is. she and her friend are taking a mini-vacation in germany. then she proceeds to state that i'm from here, right? hell yes, she thinks i'm german!! score!!! (p.s. this never happens. usually, the second i open my mouth, people switch to english, even when my german is perfectly understandable, because it's THAT obvious that i'm american.) but really, all of the swiss people i've ever known--you know, all 3 of them =)--have been super nice.
of course, i can't actually afford to live in switzerland, so this isn't really an issue, but you know, if things go sour in künzelsau, and let's face it, i mean, the town is called künzelsau, you'll know where to look for me =) by the way, every german who finds out where i'm going, either makes a face and says, they've never heard of it, but what a funny name for a town, or they make the same disdainful face and say, yeah, they've heard of it... super. i mean, like i'm not nervous enough already!
now playing: sufjan stevens (thanks, mel!)
book of the moment: franny and zooey, by j.d. salinger
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