returning home...

i think the biggest change since last time I was home is that I won't look twice when someone opens a bottle of vodka up in front of me and offers me some...i might even take it.

some friends of mine over here are going to return home in the states and, like idiots, going to order beer at a restarant and when someone asks for their id they will looked perplexed..."ID? We don't need no stinking ID!"

and everwhere I go I will be saying "enschuldigung" and "danke" and "bitte"....while over here I usually reply to everything in spanish...i think the germans find it rude to say "gracias senor", but its just habit

and I have no freakin idea how I'm going to get this absinthe bottle back to my uncle in the states...i can't carry it onboard the plane cause I'm under 21 and I can't ship it legally because its illegal in the states...any tips?

Disaggreements on the shipping of absinthe bottles... See it's things like these that nations go to war over...

but I haev learned quite a few things, like a few descriptive curses in German and that six shots of vodka is the cure to the common cold (but I only took four).

and "don't drink and drive, ride the metro instead"

and I have soon so many condom adds on billboards promoting safe sex... one has a picture of a sheep on it and it really got me wondering, so I'm getting my german-english dictionary out next time

adn now I haev to figure out how to tell a german speaking taxi driver to come pick me up at 7am to bring me to the airport and then ask how much it costs. I think I may ride the metro instead.

and damn the Deutch Bahn station for cheating me when I ask for second class prices and they give me first class prices! at this rate I'm never getting to auschwitz

and something is WRONG with this euro system...

ok two and one dolar coins I understand, even 50 cent coins I understand, even 25 cent coins I understand, and 10 cent, and 5 cent, and 1 cent.... but why the 20 cent and 2 cent coins? I never use my change because it takes too damn long to count it.

and I'm going to be so happy when I get home and buy water or ask for water at a restaraunt and actually get water instead of seltzer...

even when I saw "free water" or "tap water" or "water without bubbles" they still bring me bubble water. Gross.

Weird....

Welcome home, Gwen. 😛

not quite yet....

oh sigh*...and i'll be spelling everything wrong..it took me two weeks to get used to this keyboard with all the ? ? ? and

and I got my grades: and A for my creative writing and a B for my german philosophy class....

when I get home I can't wait to do an impression of my phil prof... "zhe inwisible nature ov zhe uniwerse, az zeen on tee-wee" muhahaha...he was great but his accent made us all giggle