continuation...

second post of the day?? yes. :)

first of all...it must be mention that the music playing here is queen. (im thinking of you erin!! and our driving down the road dancing to queen moments...) its really wierd to hear queen playing in bamberg germany.


germany is interesting. there is an odd mix of english and german spoken. youll hear a local rattling off in german, but youll hear an english word speckled here and there. european version of spanglish?? also, the german language is scary. no other way to put it...seriusly poeple, use more letters, just try it! and it is nerve racking to hear it being yelled. today on the train, we were on a car full of children (never again!!) and they were all yelling at each other in german at one point and it just put me on edge!! (perhaps this is because i had just left the concentrain camp and had a negative connotaion of screamed german in my head...) anyways, all yelling in german, but they sang happy birthday to one of the kids in english. wierd. cant figure it out.


i also cannot understand the german accent one bit. lol. i had quite an embarrassing experince with it at dachau today:

-curator: -with heavy accent- would you like to put your backpack in the locked room??
me: stare of confusion, involving looking from the door to the man to hannah trying to figure it out.
curator: do you want to leave it there??
me: uh...what??
curator: your pack...in the room???
me: nich spreckenzie deutch...
hannah: -under her breath- hes speaking english...


i am an idiot. i have also given the grocery store the wrong amout of money because i cannot figure out what the heck he said my total was. a couple times.


anyways, we have yet to experience traditional german fare...(other than a truly disturbing pastry involving some sort of undefinable meat and cheese-like substance...only €1...what do i expect??? lol) last night we ate at a thai chinese somewhat fast-foodish joint run by eastern indians with 6 different beers on tap and belly dancing music playing. HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!! (i think the only english that the people there knew was welcome...as it was said to us over and over while we were getting ready to leave...and please, said as thank you.) we have a wierd tendancy to have asain food in the most random places. chines in oundle...a tiny village in the english counrtside (you can only eat so much english food. woof.) and thai in munich...beer and sausage capital of the world. (you can also only eat so much sausage...and we veto all beer as we had a bad experience in scotland with it. we hardly had any...myself only a quarter of my glass...and felt so ill. not drunk at all, but just completely ill. hannah had a somewhat worse reaction...ill leave the rest to the imagination. so we do not really even say the word beer anymore becuase it brings up bad memories. lol)

anyways...i think thats enough for now.