Freitag, September 09, 2005
Achtzehn?
(I am thinking about switching to writing the 'morning after'--cause sometimes I come home at night tooooooo tired. Anyway...)
'Achtzen?' That is what the librarian said to Ina when we went to get a library card for me yesterday. 'Achtzen' means 'eighteen,' as in, 'Is this girl old enough to have her own library card?' AHHH!! Will I ever look my age? In the States it's, 'What grade are you going into?' and in Germany it's, 'Achtzen?'
But, I am so German!! Yesterday I rode my bike in HEELS!! My cute black heels that my mom gave me, and then tried to take back when she heard everyone thought they were cute. ;-) I was running late, so I hauled it to the Ubahn stop, flew into the bike rack (and then took forever to lock my bike, which is what always happens when you are in a hurry), and RAN to the UBahn--narrowly making it into the last door. I felt so cool.
I met Sven again---I still don't know about this. At some moments, I really like talking to him and we have fun conversations or intellectual conversations (which I<3) but other times I am like, 'Arg, you are such a geek!' And if I think someone is a geek, that has to be some kind of problem, no?
Last night he took me to have some 'American fun.' (Why do people do that? I want to have German fun...) We went to this place called 'The States' or something--it has pool & bowling. We played pool (horror of horrors--I am terrible) at the Pool Table called 'Hawaii,' which was exciting because I've never been to Hawaii. He tried to be cute and ask for NJ but they didn't have NJ. :( Then we had coffee & a beer and tried to meet some of his friends at a club, which we couldn't get into cause he was wearing shorts (shudder--why can't I meet a fashionable European guy? Am I holding myself back here?) so I just decided to head home. It was fun, and we will probably go out again, but I hope there isn't some German rule about getting to bed the girl on the 3rd date or something because there is no way.
The cool thing about the pool hall is that there were English-speaking people there, so I went and 'made friends' and got invited to a barbecue tonight. :) Meeting Wayne @ 18.15 at Kröpke (this clock that is the center meeting point for everyone)... then I am meeting the family's old au pair for drinks. :) yay.
Any advice on Situation: Sven? Milk it for all it's worth? ;-)
'Achtzen?' That is what the librarian said to Ina when we went to get a library card for me yesterday. 'Achtzen' means 'eighteen,' as in, 'Is this girl old enough to have her own library card?' AHHH!! Will I ever look my age? In the States it's, 'What grade are you going into?' and in Germany it's, 'Achtzen?'
But, I am so German!! Yesterday I rode my bike in HEELS!! My cute black heels that my mom gave me, and then tried to take back when she heard everyone thought they were cute. ;-) I was running late, so I hauled it to the Ubahn stop, flew into the bike rack (and then took forever to lock my bike, which is what always happens when you are in a hurry), and RAN to the UBahn--narrowly making it into the last door. I felt so cool.
I met Sven again---I still don't know about this. At some moments, I really like talking to him and we have fun conversations or intellectual conversations (which I<3) but other times I am like, 'Arg, you are such a geek!' And if I think someone is a geek, that has to be some kind of problem, no?
Last night he took me to have some 'American fun.' (Why do people do that? I want to have German fun...) We went to this place called 'The States' or something--it has pool & bowling. We played pool (horror of horrors--I am terrible) at the Pool Table called 'Hawaii,' which was exciting because I've never been to Hawaii. He tried to be cute and ask for NJ but they didn't have NJ. :( Then we had coffee & a beer and tried to meet some of his friends at a club, which we couldn't get into cause he was wearing shorts (shudder--why can't I meet a fashionable European guy? Am I holding myself back here?) so I just decided to head home. It was fun, and we will probably go out again, but I hope there isn't some German rule about getting to bed the girl on the 3rd date or something because there is no way.
The cool thing about the pool hall is that there were English-speaking people there, so I went and 'made friends' and got invited to a barbecue tonight. :) Meeting Wayne @ 18.15 at Kröpke (this clock that is the center meeting point for everyone)... then I am meeting the family's old au pair for drinks. :) yay.
Any advice on Situation: Sven? Milk it for all it's worth? ;-)
# posted by Heather @ 9:17 AM 
