Germans like bubbly drinks. If you order a bottle of water anywhere, you get a choice of big bubbles, medium bubbles or small bubbles. I learnt very early on to order STILLES WASSER, BITTE! But I don't have to very often because the tap water is the most delicious water I have ever tasted, so I'm refilling my bottle straight from the tap. It's really cold too, a nice drinkable temperature but FREEZING when you wash your hands with it. I might start carrying around that sanitising hand gel stuff, as a much more betterer altenative than sticking my already cold hands under the freezing jet of water. Also, no nice warn hand dryers. Only paper towel, that loops down and back up into the dispenser. You need two hands (trust me, one hand does not work :P) to pull down the front of the paper towel, then when you've finished it rolls back up the back of the dispenser.
Anyway, I started talking about bubbles because I decided to be adventurous and try the mysterious apple-juice looking bottle labelled lift, that was sitting in the fridge with the coke and the fanta and stuff. It's bubble apple juice. I do not like it, but dammit I'm gonna drink it because I paid 1.85 euros for it! I decided to employ my usual technique of flattening coke, by shaking the bottle and letting the gas out carefully. Well, it fizzed up.... and stayed fizzed up. What even? Eventually it went away and I tried it again, but it still tastes bubbly and I don't like it *whine* I might leave it a few days and see if it matures :P
Can you tell that I'm procrastinating? It's the only way you end up with a blog post about bubbly drinks and paper towel. I have a test tomorrow for Deutsch class. Somehow I can't seem to conjure up a sense of urgency about this. The thing is, no matter what my actual grade is for this course, I get an ungraded pass, or and ungraded fail. If I scrape through with 50%, I get exactly the same as someone who works their butt off and gets 100%. That's why my presentation about Fatih Akin today was only about two minutes long and pretty much just summed up the Wikipedia article about him, with some random arty quote thrown in for good measure. Besides, I don't really care much for the movie we watched because I already saw it and analysed it to bits in my European Studies unit back in first semester.
The important thing is, I bought four books for 16 euros today when our Deutsch teacher sent us into the city to write stuff about buildings. The bookstore was warm and sold bargain books. Outside was cold and I couldn't feel my hands. There may or may not have been a small argument about who wanted to attempt to write with frozen fingers. Actually, it was more like passive aggressive intense shivering, in a bid to outdo everyone else's shivering in order to prove your inability to write :P
So the bubbly apple juice still tastes like crap. I wonder what will happen if I freeze it? And then put it under the central heating duct to melt it because there is no way I am attempting to consume anything of a frozen nature in this weather. Today we found a frozen espresso bar. It was full of people. That could very well have been because it actually had doors and a cosy looking seating area, whereas most of the food places in the city are outdoors, and people actually sit in the outdoor seating to eat their meal, AND IT'S ONLY 6 DEGREES. I think they were possibly pretending that the sun was actually warm and stuff. It's all an illusion. The sun is seriously weak here. The best place to pretend it's actually warm is inside, where you can actually BE warm and just look outside at the sunshine.
Marina is cooking soup for dinner. It smells delicious. I hope it actually is, and it's not like steamed vegies floating around in warm liquid. I find the food here quite bland sometimes. The proper cold cuts and vegies anyway. Today in my roll from the bakery there was some chunk of dubious miscellaneous meat. It tasted kind of like some sort of sausage, but looked a lot like polony. I love polony, but this didn't taste like polony. I was very disappointed. I think I might stick to lunch at the kebab shop. There's good kebabs here in Germany :P Although if you order pizza, pepperoni isn't actually pepperoni, it's green peppers. If you want pepperoni, you have to order salami :P
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