This I will miss about living with Manny:
Discussions about religion and politics
My beautiful yellow/golden room
Always having a place to have dinner
Great coffee in the morning
My wooden wardrobe
Taking the 188 bus for 20 minutes to get anywhere
Eating dinner in the wintergarten
Discussions about Sira being a teenager
The heaters all over the house
The nice neighborhood
Hearing about Wendt, Abassi, and the other neighbors
New flowers in my room every week
The markings on my door from when Sira was like 8
Doing dishes while Manny runs off to watch the Sunday TV program
Frustuck on Sundays that takes up 3 hours
Waiting for the 188 bus b/c my life depended on it
Spending the majority of my travel time in the area of Rathaus Stegelitz
Squeaky floors, doors, floorboards, and doorhandles
The old house with the old double pained windows
The weird toilet and shower curtain
Family shopping time
"Krrrrrristina"
Hearing the latest news about which bar/cafe to go to
...so much more
I can't believe I only have one more week with Manny! :( Its so sad!!
Today we had such an awesome day. Sira came over and we went to Potsdam (finally like he's been talking about since like week 2 of being here) and we meet Andres, Patrick, and Raleigh for the Holland Festival in Postdam which was sooooo nice b/c the weather was sooo hot! I got burned for sure. It was one of the first times in months I've been outside for the whole day and it was lovely! Ah then we came back to the house and all 6 of us had a nice garten dinner outside. The whole thing was so lovely!
Its just so weird that everything is coming to an end! Everyone leaves this Friday or Saturday. So weird. We have finals this week then a goodbye dinner on Thursday and a party on Friday. So sad. I'm going to miss the normalcy of going to Brentanostrasse then at break heading over to Gunter's for coffee then Mensa-ing it, then coming back to Brentanostrasse for whatever reason. I know I'm going to have an amazing and totally different time when I move into my WG and go to the international Freie Uni, but still I'm going to miss Raleigh, Kevin, Danielle, Phil, Kirk and everyone. So crazy. One more week left. Its always in the last few days that you realize you've been taking for granted the great situation you're in. Ah its like what I'd give to have a normal day of school then Manny's for dinner.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Today I taught Manny the word "Procrastination"
1 ten page paper
5 weeks to write
3 actual days of work on the paper
2 pages completed
So this is pretty average for my life in LA, but here it just feels like I'm being robbed of more things to do like going out to bars, hanging out with friends, and riding a bike around Lichterfelde when I put off work then have to designate an entire day to writing. Ah I should really get on writing my paper.
In the meantime though I think I'll enlighten everyone into the serious story of Easter in Germany. So I knew things were getting serious here when they got Thursday (THURSDAY!) and Friday off for Easter. I mean Easter is a Christian holiday, there's no making that PC like the US does with "Winter" Break. Yeah so then after a lovely 4 hour hike in Northern Berlin forests on Thursday I went with my friend Danielle shopping with her host sisters. That's when she drops the bomb on me: Germans actually buy each other gifts on Easter. REAL gifts, like the kind of things Americans would get each other for birthdays. Craziness! I watched as my Danielle bought nice things for her family and comforted myself with the thought that Manny, surely, did not do this. I mean when was the last time any country was more capitalistic and consumerist than the US? Never! Or so I thought! So I got Manny a big chocolate bunny thinking that I could just keep it if it turned out Easter was just normaand thankfully Danielle let me borrow a blank CD so I could possibly make him a burned CD. I get home and realize that Danielle (natürlich!) was totally correct! Well Manny didn't get me anything, but he had put a chocolate bunny in my bookshelf and a "Frohe Ostern" embordered thingy. AH! Yes, so then Sira comes over and she goes on a search for her gifts which Manny has actually hidden outside. Ha. Anyways then it turns out we have frustuck plans for Easter morning b/c Easter is a big deal. The breakfast was good but the really exciting thing was going on Manny's scooter to get there!!! AHHHH! Call me crazy, but after what shall be known as the "snow-mobile incident" I haven't been too keen to get on fast moving machines. Still it was sooo sooo much fun to get on the scooter and go all around to get to his friend's house. I mean it was like a tour of Berlin by scooter! Hooray!
Anyways I think I'll go write that paper now!
5 weeks to write
3 actual days of work on the paper
2 pages completed
So this is pretty average for my life in LA, but here it just feels like I'm being robbed of more things to do like going out to bars, hanging out with friends, and riding a bike around Lichterfelde when I put off work then have to designate an entire day to writing. Ah I should really get on writing my paper.
In the meantime though I think I'll enlighten everyone into the serious story of Easter in Germany. So I knew things were getting serious here when they got Thursday (THURSDAY!) and Friday off for Easter. I mean Easter is a Christian holiday, there's no making that PC like the US does with "Winter" Break. Yeah so then after a lovely 4 hour hike in Northern Berlin forests on Thursday I went with my friend Danielle shopping with her host sisters. That's when she drops the bomb on me: Germans actually buy each other gifts on Easter. REAL gifts, like the kind of things Americans would get each other for birthdays. Craziness! I watched as my Danielle bought nice things for her family and comforted myself with the thought that Manny, surely, did not do this. I mean when was the last time any country was more capitalistic and consumerist than the US? Never! Or so I thought! So I got Manny a big chocolate bunny thinking that I could just keep it if it turned out Easter was just normaand thankfully Danielle let me borrow a blank CD so I could possibly make him a burned CD. I get home and realize that Danielle (natürlich!) was totally correct! Well Manny didn't get me anything, but he had put a chocolate bunny in my bookshelf and a "Frohe Ostern" embordered thingy. AH! Yes, so then Sira comes over and she goes on a search for her gifts which Manny has actually hidden outside. Ha. Anyways then it turns out we have frustuck plans for Easter morning b/c Easter is a big deal. The breakfast was good but the really exciting thing was going on Manny's scooter to get there!!! AHHHH! Call me crazy, but after what shall be known as the "snow-mobile incident" I haven't been too keen to get on fast moving machines. Still it was sooo sooo much fun to get on the scooter and go all around to get to his friend's house. I mean it was like a tour of Berlin by scooter! Hooray!
Anyways I think I'll go write that paper now!
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