Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

It's getting warmer here!!!


German girls are pretty tough. Yesterday, I saw quite a few wearing dresses/skirts WITHOUT stockings! The outdoor part of the icecream cafe was full today. The icecream cafes are sooo cool! In Australia, we have icecream shops. There you can buy an icecream cone and a drink. However, in Germany, you can actually sit down on a chair and eat a bog bowl of icecream, a sunday, some pancakes, drink a hot drink, a milkshake or some alcohol. However, a sunday can cost 7 or 8 Euros...

Anyway, I went to the shops to find myself a skirt because I am sick of wearing trousers. It is sooo hard to find my size here!

I like this skirt, but I don't think my shoes and stockings look good with it....


My finance lecturer always says 'subStract' instead of 'subtract' and it annoys me.
Everyone also says 'salvation' instead of 'salvage' (as in salvage value of an asset)...can salvation be used in this context?


Yesterday there was an International Dinner at uni. You had to cook/make something from your country for people to try. I made fairy bread There was sushi, crepes, Pierogi!!! Pierogi are pretty easy to make!


On Monday I went to the bar around the corner with Miss D. The bar is really cool, as there are games there for everyone to play. We played Backgammon Deni has been playing Backgammon for 15 years and is really really good, so I learnt some tricks;)

Onions, they're more interesting than you think!


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Today Mr Fresh Air aka my favourite German and I went to 'Centro' in Oberhausen. It's a really big shopping complex, or Einkaufszentrum, in German. It's Europe's largest shopping centre.


Before we went to the shopping centre, we had some coffee. Coffe is hot, remember that. How are people who don't speak English supposed to know that coffee is hot?!


The food court in 'Centro' where we ate some subway and apple drink mixed with soda water. There is a large screen in the food court, with TV on it. Everyone watches it...they go to the shop to watch a screen...


A Jaeger shop....why?

I have asked Mr Fresh Air quite a lot, if he wanted to eat spaghetti eis with me. He always said that it was too cold for icecream. But, today, we went to an Eis Cafe (icecream cafe) I don't think there are many Eis Cafes in Australia...just icecream shops.


Part of the menu...spaghetti Eis...lasagne Eis..


Some more of the menu


Our spaghetti Eis. It is icecream put through some sort of hole thing, to make it look like spaghetti. Then with strawberry and lime sauce on the top...and then some white chocolate, which is supposed to be cheese. Under the icecream is some cream. I can't believe we don't have this in Australia. It's sooo tasty!!


How are non German speaking people meant to know that rubbish goes under and trays go on the top?


We also did some shopping, well I didn't do much. One shop assistant asked me if I was from Australia. That's the first time anyone has guessed correctly. Last week, the newsagency lady thought I was from the Netherlands.

I tried on a skirt in the shops and we asked the shop assistant if there was a size 32. She thought I wouldn't fit into it...why does everyone think I am fatter than I actually am?

Then I went to Gallerie Kaufhof, to buy underwear. The sizes in Germany are different, so I had to ask for help. The woman had to measure me with measuring tape and then said 'Oh you are so skinny. You wont find anything here' 'What, in the whole shop?' 'You can look but everything is too big for you'. Well, better to be skinny than a fat slob with fat splurting out from everywhere and fat lumps and fatty fat fat fat fat fat fat. The thing is, there are people who are skinnier/smaller framed/smaller/shorter/less fat/less 'femininely shaped' than me...

Now I am going to go to sleep so that I can go running tomorrow

PS: I have found a room! I have somewhere to live now when I go to uni

Today, I was eager to find out who had won Opera's Tell a Friend competition. I made an entry and my 'target market' was the off-the-track youth of today who use MySpace. These poor kids need to use something friendly like Opera Intersheep endorsed the project.

Well, I came 4th. There are 3 prizes. Yeah. I guess I'm just an Aussie battler. I got 135 friends...3rd place got 150...5th place got 37...

Additional prizes will be awarded for unique and mentionable entries.

I'm hoping that I'll at least get a pen for my efforts. And a blue pen too... Or some cool Norwegian food because I've never tasted Norwegian food before. I've had such a hard life: only the top 15% at uni, not the top 5% ....I use a backpack with the logo of a broke company on it...the zip is broken...I can't get a replacement...I work in a bar and customers spit in my eye ...the coolest/nicest friend I have lives >15,000km away ...I drink hot water to save teabags...the kettle is broken...I have a brick for a mobile phone...It's second hand...I used to have a stalker on the bus ...I have porridge with water to save milk...PJs are too big for me...I cry at the dentist...an 8 yr old girl made me cry by making me pat her pet chicken (I'm scared of chickens...oh and most dogs too)...I have Raynaud's disease which affects my quality of life ... *sigh*


Anyway....today I had lunch with my sister at the markets. We ate eggplant and mushroom hot pot which is really fattening but REALLY tasty We didn't go to the usual place, The ChinaTown Cafe, but 'Kens something Chinese something restaurant'...or something...

We shared the meal, so $4.50 each...then we had green tea which blew costs out to a whopping $5.50 each! Hard life...so expensive...

After that we went to Just Jeans (a shop for jeans!) to buy JEANS! Well, I tried some on but they didn't fit and I nearly cried Hard life... Then we went to Target and tried on the most horrible clothes we could find. It wasn't difficult to find ugly clothes!

My sister and I....me with a muffin top

Me in the ugliest green dress ever (yes, I wore 2 pairs of socks today)...and me in the ugliest green dress ever AND the ugliest pink jacket ever. It looked like it was made from linoleum.

I always wanted to be a pirate: puffy shirt with elastic, no zip, very high waisted grandma pants

How could anyone NOT want to give this girl a prize?


Have you ever had an Aussie burger? They MUST contain beetroot. That white shirt you spilt beetroot juice on...It's no longer Chinese...it's Aussie! Yes, it seems that whenever you add beetroot to something it becomes 'Aussie'. If you have a burger with lamb and beetroot=super Aussie burger. Aussie waffles...???

For tea my dad had Aussie waffles: Waffles with beetroot (and tuna, mushrooms and parsley...)


The red cross sent me a 'thankyou' thing today. I didn't even collect any money for them! Infact I threw their marketing material into the bin as soon as I got it.

You're welcome You're easy to please, hey?

In summary:
Do nothing= get thankyou letter from Red Cross

Make 135 friends on Myspace, promote Opera, make a huge poster about a lost pig promoting Opera and stick it to a bus stop (it got STOLEN too!! The thief thought it was the best poster EVER!! ), spend lots of time making all these friends, use up some of the 12 GB internet allowance, strain my eyes on computer, feel effects of Raynaud's Disease in my cold room= ????



*cry* Hard life...I made my phots BIGGER and they still go pixely eventhough they look FINE in PaintShop Pro

Warning: Bad quality photos and I don't know why! :'( They look fine in PaintShopPro...Ohhh maybe that's why they look bad!

Three proper days of the uni break left. I still haven't completed any of the assignments I've started though Ugh there's an accounting test next week... My problem is I get distracted too much. I'll be typing and then I need a drink...so I go to the kitchen, get a drink, then see the paper, read the paper, go to the kettle to find the water is cold, boil it again, then the postman will deliver the mail...get dressed to get the mail, get the mail, change back into my PJs (they're comfortable)... More pointless activities follow.

Today I went into town where I met with my sister and Miss C. Why? Too hard to explain. We got takeaway Chinese and took it to the pub. The workers in the Chinese restaurant discriminated me on a basis of being non-Asian; They gave me a fork with my takeaway! I am quite capeable of eating with chopsticks. So, Miss C asked for chopsticks...the girl gave us some...they looked like the ones for use IN the restaurant...we took them anyway...


My lunch (left) Hor Fan or something (rice noodles, some greens, squid I think, tofu, prawns and spicy sauce). I've tasted nearly everything on the restaurant menu, so I wanted to give this a shot. It was a let down My sister's lunch (right) Singapore noodles=yummy


Miss C's lunch: Wedges with cream cheese and chilli sauce. Miss C can eat with chopsticks too


A picture of my water...with ice, a lemon slice and lime cordial. All for $0! Yeah, and I took a photo of it. Little unimportant things like this amuse me.


Who is Anya?


I always look at my surroundings. Today, I found this lemon slice was stuck to the wall. Mr Ramsay wouldn't like that (I think his show is my new favourite show! )


Well, this is why I hardly play the piano anymore. The cat has stolen my chair. (actually, I have been practicing lately- it gets me out of doing uni work )


Ahh! "She looks an absolute dream in this stunning patterned dress..." (New Idea Magazine, April 19 2008 p.120) Who forgot to put in their contacts when they were writing that?

I told my dad I would put the above photo on here. He said something like "You can't do that. She just had a baby, blah blah blah..." Well, I just did... Cate Blanchett had a baby 6 days before this photo was taken and managed to look quite human-like. On the topic of babies: My mum has had nearly 20 years to get back into shape but has failed miserably.

There's still so much more to blog about but it's 12.10am....until next time! There should be a waving smiley