Just as I am thinking that I should get up and finish cleaning up the kitchen before I forget to do it by tomorrow so that it looks like I've taken care of things while my Vermieterin has been out of town, she walks in the door.  I hopefully managed to play off my few minutes of cleaning as nothing awkward.

I got an e-mail today from Helen, my boss from this winter.  She offered me a full-time, paid production assistant position while she's in Germany in June, for about a week.  Which is kind of awesome.  The only problem is that it's during my finals week and a bit of my last week of classes, and in another part of Germany.  I'm thinking of talking ( Read more... )

My German language class reading is about learning foreign languages, and how kids are so much better at it than adults.

Thanks, German reading.  That makes me feel better.

So it actually sent.  So, I got a copy back when someone replied.  Look!  I'm alive and doing things!

I took my first mid-term test today, and realized that I wasn't really sure when I had sent out my last e-mail (and/or last updated LJ with something substantial).  Sometime after Poland?  A month or more ago?  Anyway.  Nothing particularly ( Read more... )

I just wrote a long update e-mail on my life that I was going to mail to people and post here, so that everyone would know that I was still alive.  But my mail server deleted the whole thing.

I'll try again tomorrow.

I'm leaving for Amsterdam tonight, to spend the weekend with Brock and Scott and I am so excited I can barely stand it.

We're going to see the queen, apparently, among other things.

Mein deutsch ist schön sehr gut geworden, oder so sagt meine Vermieterin.  Ich habe in Deutschland jetzt fast zwei Monaten gewohnt und ich kann jetzt ein bisschen deutsch sprechen.  Toll ( Read more... )

Tonight Eamon, Paul, Sabine and I had a very successful dinner party with risotto and bruschetta and wine.  It was very very fun ( Read more... )

I've been here, what, a month and a half?  In cooking for myself for that long, I have gotten fairly confident and competent at the use of the gas stove.  Having to physically light the stove was definitely something I had to get used to - that, and the prevailing smell of gas fumes - but I figured it out.  Today, I am attempting to make some mini- ( Read more... )

 Culinary adventure of the day:  Chicken Cordon Bleu

Mission:  Sort of completed.

Considering the entire endeavor was a shot in the dark, I'd say I did fairly well, but I didn't cook my rice long enough, and the chicken was much thicker than I am used to cooking, so it wasn't cooked entirely either.  But now I know for next time.