Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Twenty-Ninth Day in Dortmund

Sept. 29, 2012


Today was our cooking extravaganza. It started out with us realizing we didn’t have toothpicks. For the bacon wrapped chicken, you need toothpicks or wooden skewers to secure the two together. However, somehow I came up with the genius idea to use dry spaghetti noodles as skewers. They actually worked really well and didn’t affect the taste at all. I guess necessity is the mother of invention.  We also made the rice with no problems. They both tasted great, and I considered it a great success. When we were done we still had a bunch of leftovers, so we decided to have the same thing for dinner. In the meantime, I decided to once again attempt laundry. I separated everything out and lugged it downstairs. When I came back in an hour, one of my machines still had water in it, as before. I decided that I would not be wringing my clothes out again. I wrote down all the settings on the machine and went back to my room to translate. I figured out which one was the spin cycle, turned it to that, put in another coin and waited. It actually worked! I didn’t have to flood the basement with water or wring out my clothes. I was really excited about that. 

Look at all the fun settings!

Sorry, nothing more interesting for today, Schüss!

German Word of the Day: Schleudern “to spin” If you don’t want your clothes soaking wet, you should put them through the schleudern cycle.

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