i got paid today! i seem to get the money transferred into my anorexic bankaccount at the most random date possible...meaning that since i have been in germany i have never been paid on a regular basis, well once a month is regular but the actual DAY i get paid varies. it's very annoying yet is a wonderful surprise when you have checked your ( Read more... )

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here's to absent teachers, eleven euro bank account balances, parcels full of V05 hot oil treatment, scanty underwear, temporary veganism, jaegermeister and tonic, germany's next top model and yet another snow forecast...

1. when you use the men's washroom there are stickers in the toilet stalls above the toilets. they are of a silouette of a man STANDING and using the toilet with an 'X' across it. underneath it is a black silouette of a man SITTING on the toilet with a black silouette of a thumbs-up signal beside it. yup. german men pee sitting down! my friend's ( Read more... )

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1. woke up in plenty of time to get ready for work. put on my favorite t-shirt that i have been wearing for the past three days then tucked my jeans into my socks and then into my boots ( Read more... )

while on our german roadtrip js and i kept coming across roadsigns like this:


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is the name of an awesome medieval town in upper bavaria where josh and i stayed in this damn cute little inn that had an amazing tiny restaurant where we feasted on dinners of saucy spaetzle that were big enough to feed bavarian giants...the car in the corner is our rental. most of the buidings in this walled city high on a hill were built between ( Read more... )

we rented a mercedes and sped down the beautiful highways of deutschland singing kraftwerk's "wir fahren fahren fahren an der autobahn" all the way to berlin, which was snowy, welcoming, and wonderful. we stayed with peter and conny (see photo of the coal heater in their flat) and spent the last minutes of 2005 at 23 lychenerstr with a case of ( Read more... )

1. my boyfriend
2. a bottle of veuve clicquot champagne
3. lots of love and treats (!) from canada


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