Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

I have been in Germany's most beautiful city for a month now. The time goes so quickly when you are Excel-ing all day.

What do I do in my internship? (I don't think I explained this before)
I work for a company which organises/promotes music concerts.

I enter things into Excel, enter data into our accounting program, pay creditors (it is very interesting to see how much stuff costs!), write bills, translate things from German into English and things from English to German, occasionally ring up English companies, find mistakes in bills we have to pay and ring up the companies to tell them to re-calculate stuff and ect.

The best part is.....I do all of this in GERMAN! My German has improved soooo much and I am really proud of myself. As I am Australian, I have the right to be even more proud of myself because not many Australians can speak 2 languages. Most struggle with English. I sill make mistakes but that's how you learn It amazes me how the brain learns a new language. I haven't learnt German from a book since high school. Sometimes I will use a word in a sentence and then realise that it is the first time that I have used the word...then I will ask if I used the word correctly and most of the time everything is correct. Most of the time I don't even notice that I am speaking German. I don't have to think about what I am going to say so much anymore, which makes me really happy! However, if some Germans start talking about the government...I wont be saying much!


A month has gone by, that means I have left the couch I was sleeping on and I am now living in another apartment. I am doing a bit of room-sitting for my Favourite German It's a very nice apartment.

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Yesterday afternoon I went to a little cafe, which is part of a gallery. There one can purchase a fizzy rhubarb juice. Ok, I was a bit disappointed that it was fizzy, but it still tasted good. There is also cake



And some night photos of Hamburg:




In Planten un Blomen during Summer there are water light shows on the lake. The water kind of 'dances' to the music.

Most likely tourists, being amazed by coloured water and taking photos with FLASH


Last week I joined my Favourite German for a walk in the old Elbe Tunnel. The tunnel is nearly 100 years old and it's free to walk through it

My favourite German is also known as 'Mr S'....This story needs some explaining, using Skype history

LAST WEEK: Phone
Miss Kimbers: So, are you going to the party in Mainz....and visiting me...?
Mr S: No, I have to work...and so it' not worth going to the party, then to Mannheim on Saturday and then leaving on Sunday.
Miss Kimbers: That's true *is sad because she was looking forward to having a visitor*

FRIDAY NIGHT: Skype
[2/27/2009 11:05:21 PM] Mr S says: whats your plan for tomorrow?
[2/27/2009 11:06:04 PM] Miss Kimbers says: Jacqueline and I are going to Kaiserslatern because it is free...and we don't know what is there...*insert mysterious music* And what's your plan?
[2/27/2009 11:09:40 PM] Mr S says: I'm not sure.. probably I'm visiting a girl - but it's not sure yet...
[2/27/2009 11:11:48 PM] Miss Kimbers says: Ah cool. Does she live in Duesseldorf?
[2/27/2009 11:12:07 PM] Mr S says: nope.. some km away.
[2/27/2009 11:12:29 PM] Mr S says: I'm not sure if I can manage to visit her.... and she said she might go somewhere else... this might be a problem...
*Miss Kimbers thinks: hmmm I'm a girl who doesn't live in Dueseldorf...and I am going to Kaiserslautern tomorrow....but Mr S said that it was too hard and not worth travelling so far*
[2/27/2009 11:13:52 PM] Miss Kimbers says: Then it could be a problem, yes
[2/27/2009 11:15:20 PM] Mr S says: yep... it could... but if she tells me when she'll be back tomorrow... maybe I'll visit her later. so when are you going tomorrow to kaiserslautern?


SATURDAY MORNING: Skype
*after some conversation...*
[2/28/2009 9:52:18 AM] Mr S says: so how long do you plan to stay in kaiserslautern?
[2/28/2009 9:55:20 AM] Miss Kimbers says: Probably a few hours...we have no idea what we'll do there...later im going to a party. And are you still visiting your friend?
[2/28/2009 10:04:00 AM] Mr S says: yep... i guess so. but she lives so far outside... so it's hard to get a good conection.
[2/28/2009 10:05:29 AM] Miss Kimbers says: Where does she live?
[2/28/2009 10:07:18 AM] Mr S says: near from solingen. I'm still finding the best way to visit the girl. and when do you have to go?
*Miss Kimbers thinks: How hard can it be to go to somewhere near Solingen...? And Mr S isn't visiting me, becuase I don't live near Solingen *
[2/28/2009 10:48:49 AM] Miss Kimbers says: in 50 minutes or so
[2/28/2009 10:51:01 AM] Mr S says: are you going to the party tonight?
[2/28/2009 10:52:34 AM] Miss Kimbers says: I think I am going
*Miss Kimbers thinks: Why is Mr S so interested in what I am doing...Where I am going, how long it takes, when I will be back, what I will be doing after...?*

*Miss Kimbers is on the train from Kaiserslautern back to Mannheim and receives a message from Mr S*

When will you be back in Mannheim? I have to talk to you

*Miss Kimbers thinks that is a weird message...she has a phone...so it can't be THAT urgent....Miss Kimbers replies*

In about 40 minutes, I'll be at the main station...do you need to ring me at home? Then I can go straight there

*Miss Kimbers receives no reply....and thinks that is weird...*

*The train stops in Mannheim and Miss Kimbers thinks she sees a guy who looks like Mr S out the train window, waiting on the platform, right outside her carriage!...Why would Mr S be there though...he said it wasn't worth travelling all that way for such a short time...and was going to visit a girl in some weird village near Solingen. She thinks: Nope, it isn't Mr S*

*Miss Kimbers walks out of the train....
....and gets a hug....
....from....
....MR S!!!*

HOW SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

*smile*


Miss Kimbers received a pretty rose at the station *smile*....and a packet of icing sugar too!


Miss Kimbers' favourite German cooked brussel sprouts for dinner

Miss Kimbers was happy to show Mr S his two photos hanging in her room Mr S takes nice photos!

Then the two walked to a WG (Wohngemeinschaft (SPELLING?) err English= Shared house) party of some German people.


On the way to the party, they crossed the Neckar River.


A boat on the Neckar


The people in the WG (English=shared house) like to read magazines in the bathroom!

Miss Kimbers finds it pretty difficult to talk to Germans in social situations where there are many people. However, she is quite proud of her effort at the party. She spoke with quite a few people and mostly in German

Mr S and Miss Kimbers left the party at 00:30 or something and walked back over the bridge...then they found themselves in the kitchen making KALTER HUND, the yummiest cake in the world! This is why Mr S gave Miss Kimbers a box of icing sugar; he bought all the ingredients for the cake with him!


On Sunday morning, Mr S and Miss Kimbers drank coffee and ate Kalter Hund

Then, they ate some bread with VERY limited toppings (Miss Kimbers doesn't have much food, because she doesn't eat much)...and then some more cake...and then they went for a walk on the river....and then they came back to the flat and ate MORE CAKE


Mr S eating some Kalter Hund

As usual, the clocked ticked too fast and it was time for Mr S to get his Mitfahrgelegenheit. On the way to the station, they ate mushroom and tomato pizza.

Miss Kimbers had such a nice time with Mr S and thinks she is lucky to know such a wonderful person *smile*






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Other news:
Tomorrow 02/03/2009: Miss Kimbers will (hopefully) receive her residence permit for Germany.
Thursday 05/03/2009: Miss Kimbers will travel to Munich for the weekend and wants to visit a concentration camp