Germany number 2!

Hey, so its going good. Im here hanging out in Germany still....but only one more week till Im home in my own bed! (woo-hoo!).
So X-mas was good. Kinda different. We opened gifts on X-mas eve in stead of X-mas day, and then we did a few other different things, but all in all it was really neat. X-mas eve we went to the Childrens Pagent at the neighboorhood church and then we came home, but went next door for coffee and cake at Peppi and Kalle´s. Then we went back over to Tante Maria and Onkel Georgs for dinner, which was the long German hot dogs and some special white worsts from Munich, and then we also had katuffle salat (potato salad...lol...ha ha, for all of you who think I spell horrible in English, check out that Deutch....its worse!). Then (smile) after we opened some gifts in the stubbor (living room) we went back next door! lol...crazy, huh? And then we had more gifts and drinks. Then back to my aunt and uncles house to meet other people who came. We had a suprise visit from Dagmar, Jurgen and Anna from Berlin, so that was a nice suprise (I guess they decided at 5pm they were going to come and then got in the car and arrived 3.5 hours later).

The next day we took a walk along the dyke with Dagmar and Jurgen and it was so freezing. Even though there was no snow on the ground, the wind of the water was increadibly icey.
Anyway, since then there has been a lot of eating here and there and the other place, and then there is coffee and cakes here and there and the other place...but its all great.

Yesterday I got to tour the one of the fish factories. That was really cool, never in my life have I seen so many different kinds of fish...different colors, different sizes, in different states (live crabs and crawdads to packaged bits and pieces). It was really great.

On a random note, my aunt has tea thats called "Heisse Liebe", which means "hott love"...how funny is that? Since she justs keeps talking to me in Germans (shes always done this), I decided a while ago that I was just going to talk to her in English...and sometimes, like them, I mix the two together...lol...my aunts thing to say is "Kliene peeoples" which means small peoples (but they dont say "people" here and it always sounds hilarious). My uncles thing, among many, is the "car-bahn"...similar to the "auto-bahn", but American-ized...lol. He has also taught me "Drinks of Korn comes in form"....yeah, lol...I dont know exactly what that one means, but when we were around the table last night and I quoted him, everyone started cracking up...it was great.

Well, thats really all I have to say right now (smile) there are a bunch of other things that I want to make note of, but I can never think of them when Im in front of the computer. I love you all!

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maike rinaye