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News from number 5

Tuesday, 17. February 2009, 21:35:00

Exchange, Karneval, Miss Kimbers, Shopping ...

I live at number 5....

What is new at number 5?

Miss Kimbers went shopping at Aldi and bought all of this stuff for just 7 Euro. All this stuff should last for a week...SHOULD....

My animals

Samba is probably better than Nutella...and crunchy. Well, for 5 Euro something=9.91009 AUD, you'd want it to taste good. It's 'BIO', or as we say in Australia 'organic'. Germans are relaly into the whole 'bio' thing...there are 'bio' supermarkets everywhere.

I can't eat the BIO porridge anymore. It has all kinds of seeds mixed in with it and it tastes so...'bird food-y-ish'? Today, I ate 3 spoonfuls of porridge and had to throw it in the bin...and then I ended up eating Samba and Pfluemli (plum jam) on bread

Uni:
I was late for class yesterday.

Today, I had a 45 minute class. I talked to one person, who said he had friends from Australia, from Adelaide. And then I said that was where I am from. Then he said he once had a girlfriend from Mt Barker, and asked me if I knew Mt Barker and I said 'Yes' and then he was like 'Woah...'

I write emails to teachers, and they never write back....

Tomorrow, I have 2 classes.

Thursday and Friday, I have free

Weather
It snowed yesterday. I woke up and everything was white. I woke up today and there was no snow *HAPPY*

Other
I'm going to Duesseldorf on Thursday to see what Karneval is, to learn about GERMAN CULTURE (hey, I have been sitting in the kitchen a lot, trying to be German...and I even bought little tissues...). I'm stopping in Koeln, so I might see what is happening there. I have no idea what Karneval is. All I know is, people dress up and...I don't know...walk around? At the moment there are all kids of costumes in the shops for Karneval. However, I'm in money saving mode and will not purchase a custome.

In Adelaide, we only have a Christmas parade. It's the biggest of it's type in the southern hemisphere ooooo ahhhhh. In Sydney, there is a big parade for those who...bat for the other team. We also have parades for those who fought in wars.

In the Rhineland festivities developed especially strongly, since it was a way to express subversive anti-Prussian and anti-French thoughts in times of occupation, through parody and mockery

(Wikipedia)
O....k....

Carnival Thursday is called "Altweiber" (old women) in Düsseldorf or "Wieverfastelovend" (The women's day) in Cologne, in many places Carnival-"fools" take over city halls or municipal government, "wild" women cut men's ties wherever they get hold of them.

(Wikipedia)

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Well, I'm not fat.

Friday, 23. January 2009, 23:10:51

Eis, Centre, Spaghetti Eis, Shopping ...

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

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Getting warmer

Friday, 5. September 2008, 09:57:41

Temperature, Doctor, Weather, Shopping ...

It's Spring! It's getting warmer!! I didn't wear 10 layers today!

The sun was even shining.

Woah! It's warmer outside than inside.

Everything is starting to grow again, so this is pretty much what I see from my window.

The cat sat in the sun today. It meows to go outside all the time, then it just sits on the cement.

These are the best things since sliced bread! They're Kosher too See the blue blue sky?

The doctor said I need to eat more legumes. My mum went shopping today, this is all she bought After 2 hours my parents had finished one block of chocolate...

There's a FREE BBQ at uni on Tuesday!!!

German Lesson:
Sabberst du oder hast du tollwut?
Are you dribbling or do you have rabies?

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Lunch and recent purchases

Sunday, 13. July 2008, 09:36:13

Clothes, Jumper, Adelaide, Birthday ...

Welcome back to my blog (there should be a waving smiley)

It's my grandma's birthday on Tuesday so we took her out to lunch today. She said she wanted to go to 'Dundees Hotel/Dundees Crocodile and Wildlife Park'. *sigh* Yes, I actually sighed when I found out we were going there.

After 4.75 hours sleep, I travelled for 1.5 hours with my family to get to an 'all you can eat' restaurant, randomly placed on the side of a freeway...

$18 buys you 'all you can eat'...not that anyone would ever eat $18 worth of food.

Left to right:
Sister- Lots of carbs, some dead animal (iron and protein) and some veggies under there somewhere
Dad- Err weren't you looking up ways to lower cholesterol on the net last night? Well, ok you've got some protein there and some greens...but I don't know what the brown stuff is
Mum- You like potato, hey? Didn't we get 5kg of potatoes for $2 on Thursday? And you paid $18 for this...?
Grandma- sat too far away so didn't get a pic

My mum also ate some prawns. Nothing more classy than ripping out the intestinal tract of a dead sea creature at the dinner table

HOT WATER My meal...$0...best price EVER

I took a photo of this because it looks pretty Do you prefer rouns sprinkles or the straight sprinkles?

Then we went home

I like looking out of the window at the country side which looked like this and this in spots.

This is in a village named Callington. I like clouds.

In other news...

My mum bought 3kg of oranges!!!

Oranges make me happy. So does porridge. Porridges with oranges in it makes me super happy.

I baked a lemon and poppy seed cake last week. It was definately NOT the best cake I have ever made, probably because I kind of 'invented' the recipe and didn't put enough eggs in. I still ate it though

Puma shoes are really good in my opinion. Why? I've been wearing the same pair for 5.5 years and they have only started to 'die' recently. I refuse to pay over $50 for shoes, considering shoes priced at $100 are NOT worth $100 (I do learn stuff at uni that I can apply to real life woah!

)

I found some Converse shoes in a brochure for $50. When I got to one store the woman said
'Oh it's only the blue ones that are $50. The gold are $80'
Me- So a different colour is $30?!
Woman- Yes...
Me- You can keep the shoes then

Then I went to another store (the same store but a different location) and took the gold shoes to the check-out. They wanted to charge me $80 for them too! However, I used my knoweldge of small print and generally annoyed the staff and got them for $50

I also bought a warm polar fleece jumper recently. It's from Paddy Pallin, an outdoor shop where the staff are soooo much more friendly and helpful than the staff in the store I got my shoes from. I asked the guy for a student discount and got one

With my new jumper, I can ride a bike, go hiking and mountain climbing. Wow, a whole world of opportunities awaits me and my jumper

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4th place...just an Aussie battler

Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 14:58:35

Aussie Battler, Ugly, Red Cross, Family ...

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

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1/2 way!

Wednesday, 2. July 2008, 02:45:55

Hospital, Photos, Shopping, Student ...

At 11.10am yesterday, I was exactly 1/2 way through my degree

Intersheep and I celebrated today

Intersheep decided that biscuits are not a healthy choice. So we ate a mandarin as well

After the exam, the plan was to have lunch. I however was not hungry and Miss V didn't have any money for lunch but, the guys were hungry. We walked over to the pub but we never actually went IN the pub.

We went to the playground instead.

Mr E had to do another exam, so we left him there and went to Ray's Outdoors, an outdoor shop. I never knew sleeping bags were so expensive. I didn't even know which sleeping bag to buy so I didn't buy one. Outdoor shops are always fun

One two roomed tent had a fan in it! I thought that was pretty cool...

Then I left my friends to do some stuff at uni and to buy some stuff in the mall. Then I went to see my grandma in the hospital. I feel so sorry for her there. The ward is soooo horrible looking, like something out of a horror movie. There must be criminals in there too because there are security guards sitting outside the wards. One woman in the ward keeps trying to escape so the nurses had to tie her to the bed!

It was tea time in the hospital when I visited. My grandma made me eat 80% of her meal...

When I got home my sister was cooking pancakes. That's why there was a smoke-like-cloud in the lounge room.

Pancakes with plum jam, cherries and banana

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What happened to the agreement?

Thursday, 26. June 2008, 10:57:45

Exercise, Mum, Clothes, Me ...

I thought there was an agreement between my mum and me: Don't buy me clothes because when you do, they're ugly and/or always 1000000 sizes to big for me.

I don't know what happened to that agreement because today she bought me some stuff

Summer T-shirt: Umm isn't it Winter? Aren't I always saying how COLD it is?
Slippers: Too small and they look as bad as a Nissan Micra (That's why their share price went down!)
Tracky dacks for PJs: Too long. They're high waisted too , so if I wear them low they're even longer...

I'll finally get some exercise tomorrow when I walk to the shops to take all of it back

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