Guten Abend! I’m typing this up on my computer to post tomorrow, because Marina is working on her computer so I can’t use the internet. I had a lovely long sleep last night. I went to bed at 8:30 and fell asleep really quickly despite my nap earlier. I woke at 6am, but just lay in bed and eventually I went back to sleep until 9am. We had a lazy morning, Marina put some baguettes in the oven to toast them for breakfast. She tried my vegemite, which she had never heard of before, and thought it was too salty :P. She has a coffee filter, and the coffee was drinkable, though I really really miss coffee from home. As I was drinking it I was thinking how Sunday training would be finished and everyone would be at the pub. I really missed my Sunday afternoon coffee at Mister Nathan’s house today :( Coffee here is just not as good.
Marina is really very funny. She’s from Brazil, and is constantly complaining about Germany and the cold weather and the food and this and that, but she’s lived here for twenty years! She teaches Portuguese for a living, and loves languages. This afternoon we ventured outside and passed a church where they were singing in some language neither of us recognised. We stood outside trying to figure it out for ages :P. The sun was out yesterday and it got up to 13 degrees, and this morning the sun was out for a little while before it went all overcast and rainy again. Marina thinks that the weather is changing and it’s going to be colder tomorrow.
This afternoon we went out for afternoon tea at a friend of Marina’s house. She’s a little French woman called Paulette who moved here just before Marina, and she was Marina’s first friend in Germany. It was a real tea party, with the table set with multiple kinds of tea and little cakes and biscuits. It was very cute. There was this orange tea with a funny name that they made me try, and I actually liked it! I’m not a huge fan of tea, though I like my English breakfast every now and then. Paulette was really cute, the three of us had a long animated chat about language and stuff like that. It was very interesting, because both women would get excited and start dropping into German and French and Portuguese all in the same sentence. I really enjoyed myself. Next weekend Marina is going to München with her class, so she’ll be away all weekend. Paulette invited me over to watch tv if I feel lonely or bored, because Marina doesn’t have a tv :P
Tomorrow is my orientation at uni, but I don’t have to be there until 2pm. I’m going to get up early and go downtown to buy myself some internets and more socks. I have skype! I downloaded it before I left Frankfurt. My username is banananachips if anyone wants to add me. Don’t forget the extra ‘na’ in bananana, for some reason people always miss that small detail :P.
Tonight Marina has been telling me all about her former student boarders. She really is lovely, she’s always had girls, and all of them are “my Sarah” or “my Laura”. She has the most expressive animated face, the expressions she makes are sometimes very funny, and she tells stories with her whole body. I was telling her about my barista course and bits and pieces about coffee, so now she calls me her barista girl when she wants me to set the table.
Right now I’m a bit bored. I’ve spent most of the last couple of days just sitting in my room reading my book. I’ve already finished one and I’m onto another one. It’s just as well I bought one at Hong Kong airport! After tomorrow I should have more things to fill my time, like schoolwork and social stuff, and hopefully I’ll have my own internet as well.
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