Mittwoch, August 31, 2005
Once you go black...
Today, Ina and the kids introduced me to 'Chocolate Kisses,' a recent name given to The Candy Formerly Known As 'Negro Kisses.'
But, that wasn't the best thing that happened today... I met friends!! I rode the UBahn like a disenchanted German to meet Agata and Tara in front of the Kröpke clock (the center point of Hannover) and grab a drink. Agata is from Poland, and pulls off this cool, quasi-disinterested persona as only as Eastern European can (she is actually really nice). I loooove Tara! She will be here until the end of July...just like me! I am so excited to have met her :-)
But... the best thing that happened today occurred while we were drinking beer in this bar in Hannover. Picture a German bar... The men across from us are sharing this mini-keg, I have a mug of beer... We are sitting at a 'handmade' wooden table with 'handmade' stools (they had that rough look to them). It is smoky. People are eating schnitzel and saurkraut. How much more German can it be?
What kind of music would you expect to be playing? Something polka-esque? Or just general background music? Ooohhh nooo... they had a singer! And what did he play?
Country Roads by that American master of folk/country music John Denver.
I laughed so hard I cried. The absurdity of hearing 'Almost Heaven... West Virginia' in this heavily accented English in the middle of Hannover.
I will never be able to listen to that song the same way again.
Today, Ina and the kids introduced me to 'Chocolate Kisses,' a recent name given to The Candy Formerly Known As 'Negro Kisses.'
But, that wasn't the best thing that happened today... I met friends!! I rode the UBahn like a disenchanted German to meet Agata and Tara in front of the Kröpke clock (the center point of Hannover) and grab a drink. Agata is from Poland, and pulls off this cool, quasi-disinterested persona as only as Eastern European can (she is actually really nice). I loooove Tara! She will be here until the end of July...just like me! I am so excited to have met her :-)
But... the best thing that happened today occurred while we were drinking beer in this bar in Hannover. Picture a German bar... The men across from us are sharing this mini-keg, I have a mug of beer... We are sitting at a 'handmade' wooden table with 'handmade' stools (they had that rough look to them). It is smoky. People are eating schnitzel and saurkraut. How much more German can it be?
What kind of music would you expect to be playing? Something polka-esque? Or just general background music? Ooohhh nooo... they had a singer! And what did he play?
Country Roads by that American master of folk/country music John Denver.
I laughed so hard I cried. The absurdity of hearing 'Almost Heaven... West Virginia' in this heavily accented English in the middle of Hannover.
I will never be able to listen to that song the same way again.
# posted by Heather @ 11:59 PM 
