6/20/09 - Veile Dinge, die Ich gelernt habe
I´m in Germany with my mom in an internet cafe. Here are some of my observations:
1. Towns that have been arround since the Middle Ages were based on cowpaths, and are very hard to navigate.
2. Being lost can be fun.
3. Every toilet flushes differently. (In the US, there´s only about five ways to flush)
4. Soap and sinks aren´t quite as bad.
5. Paper is the same, but comes in rectangles instead of squares.
6. German Mexican food is interesting. It includes steak covered in nacho sauce with jalipinos, "spicy meat" with blue cheese and pickles in tacos.
7. People in Ausburg really like Herr Fugger. (He was a rich person born exactly 550 years ago who build very cheap housing for poor Catholics. A festival in his honor started today. His name is pronounced like a certian swear word.)
8. Itallian resturaunts are more common in Germany than in America. The pizza is good, but the zahiti has chunks of mozerella cheese in it.
9. Buying train tickets is slightly confusing (but easier than the subway), the trains are clean and the other passengers are sociable.
10. The passengers are sometimes more sociable if you share your chocolate.
11. Knowing some German is important because sometimes people don´t know any English. My Mom and I haven´t learned the word for bill yet, so we have to use sign language to ask for one.
12. You have to ask for the bill at resturaunts, or they won´t bring it.
13. You can buy a foot long plastic crow for 4€. (My Mom wouldn´t let me)
14. Cobblestones are hard on feet.
15. There are shops that sell just handbags and backpacks or just meat.
16. Sex things are sold alongisde other merchendice in any part of town, sometimes even at the checkout line.
17. There are some very interesting statues and fountians. I´ll post pictures when I get back. (Forgot the wires to upload my camera. Almost forgot the battery charger, too. And the voltage adapter.)
I´ll post more when I get to another cafe (probably in a few days). Weitersehen!
1. Towns that have been arround since the Middle Ages were based on cowpaths, and are very hard to navigate.
2. Being lost can be fun.
3. Every toilet flushes differently. (In the US, there´s only about five ways to flush)
4. Soap and sinks aren´t quite as bad.
5. Paper is the same, but comes in rectangles instead of squares.
6. German Mexican food is interesting. It includes steak covered in nacho sauce with jalipinos, "spicy meat" with blue cheese and pickles in tacos.
7. People in Ausburg really like Herr Fugger. (He was a rich person born exactly 550 years ago who build very cheap housing for poor Catholics. A festival in his honor started today. His name is pronounced like a certian swear word.)
8. Itallian resturaunts are more common in Germany than in America. The pizza is good, but the zahiti has chunks of mozerella cheese in it.
9. Buying train tickets is slightly confusing (but easier than the subway), the trains are clean and the other passengers are sociable.
10. The passengers are sometimes more sociable if you share your chocolate.
11. Knowing some German is important because sometimes people don´t know any English. My Mom and I haven´t learned the word for bill yet, so we have to use sign language to ask for one.
12. You have to ask for the bill at resturaunts, or they won´t bring it.
13. You can buy a foot long plastic crow for 4€. (My Mom wouldn´t let me)
14. Cobblestones are hard on feet.
15. There are shops that sell just handbags and backpacks or just meat.
16. Sex things are sold alongisde other merchendice in any part of town, sometimes even at the checkout line.
17. There are some very interesting statues and fountians. I´ll post pictures when I get back. (Forgot the wires to upload my camera. Almost forgot the battery charger, too. And the voltage adapter.)
I´ll post more when I get to another cafe (probably in a few days). Weitersehen!