I've realized how horrible I've been not to include any of my candid shots that aren't from a tour or a program outing. I took this one yesterday while it was taking a break from raining. It was a little chilly outside so I didn't feel like venturing out too much. But I did get a number of wonderful pictures outside my apartment window. Obviously. But when has there NOT been a great picture of the sky or a skyline? It pretty much
screams, "Take me! Shoot me!"
But what have I been up to today? Answer: abosultely nothing. From 9 until 11 I was in my room being lazy. I took a shower and continued to be lazy for another hour when it suddenly occured to me I was hungry. So, I popped into Netto (a convienence store about a minute walk away from where I live) and grabbed some cereal and milk. Returned and commenced being lazy. At about 2:30, 3 o'clock, I said, "Enough." I put on my shoes and went out to explore my side of town. Let's just say my side of town is interesting. Not a bad interesting though, heavens no. It really is interesting.
About a ten minute walk there is a video rental place (where I went Thursday to check out) and another two minutes after that there's a mall... with a HUGE "Toys 'R' Us" store. If I ever feel the need to be overly American while Im here, I'll do it there. Right beside that there is a mall. A mall! It is absolutely fabulous. There's a supermarket called "Edeka" there and they had so much... even lemon pepper! I found where I'm going to shop if I need to cook a large meal. That was just the first floor though (along with a couple of different shops I popped into for a quick look). I wandered around for a little while longer until it was just highways leading to Munich and Passau.
However, I came back home with my spoils from Edeka: a small bag of tortilla chips, a glass jar of guacamole, and a Kinder Surprise Egg (my thoughts on the Kinder/Ferrero brand another time). I've started a small collection of Kinder toys to say the least. However, just as you would expect crappy bratwurst in Mexico, the guacamole here is... well, let's just say I took a big gamble and suffered for it. It's not a bad dip; it's bad guacamole. It tastes more like a salsa verde really. I wonder if putting "avocado sauce" on the label is false advertising. But I had been craving guacamole to the point I was looking at the avocados... and none of them were ripe enough to use in the next couple of days.
I had also been craving sardines in mustard sauce. I do, indeed, know the German word for mustard (der senf) and did, indeed, find it on a can of fish: Herring. It was canned Herring filets in a dill mustard sauce. I did not want Herring, I did not want dill mustard. Pretty much the only winners of my choice were the tortilla chips (really, now. How could you get those wrong?) and a Kinder Surprise Egg (it was a hollow chocolate egg with white chocolate covering the inside and a toy inside a yellow capsule).
Anyway, hopefully I'm going to listen to some live music tonight. I don't plan on staying too terribly late so I might blog again. Who knows? I've got to study German anyway.
Cheers!
