I missed the game with Germany vs. Australia yesterday, which is sad, because this is what the Germans are all about, but I plan to catch more. Germany won 4:0 I heard. For the last few days there have been innumerable youths walking the streets tooting extremely loud plastic trumpets and clothed in German flags. I caught a quick picture of some blaring by my window right before the game:
There is almost constantly a tooting of one of those horns somewhere in the distance, if not directly in your own block at almost all times. I was walking back from the grocery store about an hour ago and people were blowing these horns just walking down the street. I think it's kind of annoying, but then I think.... I want one. :)
I tried some very good meat at breakfast for my sandwich (a common breakfast food is a roll, sliced deli meat and cheese, with an egg and juice or coffee on the side) this morning and it was very tasty. I went to the grocery store after class and found what looked similar and bought it. I didn't know the word on it (Lachs) but looked it up when I got home and found out it's salmon! I didn't expect it because it is in smallish thin slices like salami or so, but is a light reddish/pink/peach color. It's smoked I think, although I didn't see that on the package, but I didn't look too hard. I bought some big pre-made doughy pretzels for a little treat too. They probably won't be as good as the ones you can buy on the street, but I thought I'd try it, plus they were on sale. I also bought a Hawaiian style pizza here (which has been growing on me a lot) it seems even more readily available to the Germans than it is for us. I also found an instant soup called "Pirate Soup" that looks promising:
Class has been really cool lately. The teacher (Frau Schumacher) is very good at using the multiple intelligences that we're taught to use at WLC. She has group and single projects, she had us write a poem today about anything in the city with a partner. (My friend Sam and I wrote about Kaufland, it turned out being the funniest poem in the class). She has us go outside to get information occasionally, employing naturalistic intelligence. She does a lot of word play things with us too, which is fun and helpful to have a language class taught through linguistic intelligence, but not in a traditional way. She also works hard to create a lot of visuals for us, or projects that need us to make our own visuals, which is very helpful.
Elizabeth has said she's ready for me to start trying to speak German with her, so we have been yesterday and today. She's coming along well! It helps her a lot to have me there to ask questions to or to get corrected on her pronunciation of a word (her Italian keeps peeking through her German). But we work hard to try to make connections between words to find easy ways to remember them.
I am planning to see Wartburg this weekend (where Luther translated the New Testament during the Reformation). I'm going to be traveling with a classmate (Kathleen) who is very Catholic so may have not been interested in seeing the castle since it's really mostly relevant to Lutherans, but she is a European History major, so she said she would like to come with. Don't worry, I'll be sure to have pictures up!
Sorry that my blogs are slowing down a little bit, there's less to say now that I'm not traveling so much. Hopefully I can start employing more of my train tickets and get some weekend travel in though!
Bis spaeter!
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