Janine’s mom came to visit for a few hours on Thursday and we spent a while practicing English with her. She speaks pretty well for only doing 6 months of it! She’s very nice and made us yummy fish soup. I told her she could call and ask how to pronounce things if she needs [...]
First 15 minutes: the most awesome thing I’ve seen since the end of BSG. Goes a long way to explaining Kirk’s entire character. The theater in Dessau released Star Trek XI (aka Star Trek 0) Wednesday night (:D a day before the US release :D), and Janine and Micha and I went to go see [...]
I was once again caught unaware by the public holiday of Labor Day on Friday, but I’m gradually learning—I had food for Friday and breakfast for Saturday on hand to last me through the lack of grocery stores. Monday I spent wrapping up the homework I procrastinated on, and took “warm and cold” portraits of [...]
So, yesterday I went to the middle ages market in Roßlau, about 3 km from here. Since ren faires in the US seem to run from 9-5, and the Sterling Ren Faire I went to last year was huge, I wanted to jump up and go early to spend the whole day there. Since Janine [...]
Square dancing did not involve much in the way of squares this week. We tried contra, country line, some sort of country round dance, old time square dance, and then the caller did a unique rendition of “New York, New York” in my honor. Evidently the caller talked to a journalist in his neighborhood and [...]
