Sept. 19th, 2012
I got up for breakfast around 8:30 as
usual. I grabbed a yogurt for breakfast and tried a new flavor. It
was basically chocolate pudding. My kind of breakfast!
We learned how to talk about the
weather in class today. Basically Sonnig is sunny and bewöklt is cloudy. That’s about all you need to know.
We had a shortened class today as well
because we were to gather for another meeting in one room. Everyone
crammed in and the teachers announced that we would be
doing another presentation. I was not as enthused about this one.
Firstly, no food involved. Secondly, I already did one presentation
and while I had fun doing it, I don’t want it to be a weekly sort
of thing. However, my opinion doesn’t matter and we were told to
make groups of 6. The difference from last time was that each group
had to have people from different countries. I could no longer
huddle with the Americans, but had to strike out and find another
group. Luckily, Bilge and I found one that needed two people. Our
group consisted of Cristina and Luiz from Spain, Florin
from Romania, and Miriam from Brazil.
Our presentation had to be a 5 minute
skit about our experience in Germany so far. The teachers said to
make it funny. Grrrrreeeeeeat. (That’s sarcasm, not Tony the
Tiger). While we had a slow time getting started, we eventually came
up with some really good ideas and even wrote a script for our skit.
We have a week to get everything together, and I am looking forward
to rehearsal so that we don’t crash and burn.
After that, I grabbed a quick lunch
with everyone and then Chris, Britney, Mike and I went into town for
groceries. Chris and I were specifically gathering ingredients for a
loaded baked potato casserole.
We have another group outing on Friday,
but this time we are watching a movie, and each country is expected
to bring a dish (sort of like the international breakfast). We
couldn’t think of anything more American than taking a relatively
healthy dish (a baked potato) and putting cheese, bacon, sour cream ,
butter, and ham on it. It did occur to me that since we brought
hashbrowns to the breakfast and now are planning on bringing another
potato dish to the movie on Friday, that everyone will think Americans only eat potatoes. But we also snack on French fries and
potato chips… so maybe it’s true?
We are using a Paula Deen recipe, so we
had to buy butter of course, but we also had to look for bacon. We
finally assembled everything and will cook it before the movie on
Friday. They haven’t told us what movie we will be watching, I
really hope it isn’t a war movie or documentary. That’s it for now,
Schüss!
German Word of the Day: Speck- “Bacon”
Speck is delicious on everything.
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