Mittwoch, Oktober 05, 2005
Lunch, Lessons, & Love...
I was joking with mein freund Tara that my biggest stress these days comes from whether or not Henrik will like lunch, as preparing lunch is my biggest responsibility. Gone are the days of 20-page papers, critical thinking, and intellectual talks over Green Tea Chai--less rushing, no deadlines, easy-living... I guess you have a pretty sweet life when your only stress is whether der junge will like mittagessen. But, imagine the tumult your life is thrown into when he doesn't like lunch.... :( Happy to report that Henrik has thoroughly enjoyed his lunch for the past 2 days--SpagBol und Chinese Nudeln!! Wunderbar!
Yesterday, he was really trying to be sweet. We wanted to watch a movie & he chose Ducktales. But, he dragged me to the living room to make sure I would watch... It was Ducktales auf ENGLISCH!! I used to watch Ducktales alllll the time after school (Emily... c'mon, remember!) and it was a trip down memory lane... Scrooge McDuck, the nephews, those 4 bad guys (the prisoner ones--the Beagle Boys!!), the Odyssey-themed episode with that magical evil Pig-Lady. We watched The Money Vanishes und Home Sweet Homer. Good times...though prompting all kinds of forgotten questions about the show--like if all the characters are animals, how do we know which are the 'People'-animals und which are the Animal-animals? (Is it really right for a dog to own a dog?) And all kinds of memories--like Ducktales spin-offs (Darkwing Duck, Tailspin) and other fave after school shows (Chip'n'Dale, Ninja Turtles, the old Batman show). Ducktales woo wooo!
I had my first Deutsch class tonight!!! It was cool, but we moved sooooooooo slowly. Maybe it just seemed that way cause I already knew what we had covered, and I will be grateful for the slow-moving later, but eeek.... I think my prof. might already not like me so much (not that I really give a crap) b/c I was the loudest person in class. (I was just excited and happy, K?) I think I may have also been 'Ask Too Many Questions Girl'--which is appalling and I promise I will do better. Hay una chica de Columbia en mi clase y voy a practicar mi espanol con ella. Creen que es un buen idea? Por un mano, es dificil aprender aleman cuando practicar espanol. Por otro mano, me gusta much este idioma y quiero hablarlo mas. Ay, problemas. There were 2 women from Thailand in class--they will probably have the most trouble (different alphabet) & there were 5 ppl from Turkey! Yikes! One of them was sitting next to me and she looked overwhelmed/about to cry the entire time... I felt bad, but also a leetle bit annoyed when the prof assigned us as partners for this dialogue thing. Ok, yes, we have no common language but we had heard a variation on this dialogue for the past 1/2 hour and alllll we had to do was fill in the blanks. I tried and tried to talk to her but she wouldn't talk back, and it felt a little like HS where I was the SmartKid and feeling like I was the only one who knew what was going on... Although in HS ppl would inundate me with questions & this time the lady just stared at me... Anyway. There are these 2 (cute!!) Italian guys in class--one who needed directions to Goetheplatz as we were leaving--and asked me to come to a concert with him...sigh, I had plans.
With Steve! Too-old-for-me-British-guy. :( Still too old, still dreamy. Nuff said.
On the way home, I took out my Deutsche Buch on the Ubahn and started practicing. This girl sitting across from me kept catching my eye and smiling. Finally I said, 'Ich lerne Deutsche... and I'm kinda pathetic.' She said, 'No! You are doing well!!' We exchanged the usual 'where-are-you-froms' and when I told her I am American her eyes got all wide, 'I just returned from Rhode Island! I was an au pair there!' Ahh! A new au pair friend and one that can help me learn German!! :) Woohoo! Her name is Silke--she's cool :)
Ich hoffe du hast einen wunderbaren Abend.
ps: Pretty cool about Sandra Day O'Connor's new job, huh?
Yesterday, he was really trying to be sweet. We wanted to watch a movie & he chose Ducktales. But, he dragged me to the living room to make sure I would watch... It was Ducktales auf ENGLISCH!! I used to watch Ducktales alllll the time after school (Emily... c'mon, remember!) and it was a trip down memory lane... Scrooge McDuck, the nephews, those 4 bad guys (the prisoner ones--the Beagle Boys!!), the Odyssey-themed episode with that magical evil Pig-Lady. We watched The Money Vanishes und Home Sweet Homer. Good times...though prompting all kinds of forgotten questions about the show--like if all the characters are animals, how do we know which are the 'People'-animals und which are the Animal-animals? (Is it really right for a dog to own a dog?) And all kinds of memories--like Ducktales spin-offs (Darkwing Duck, Tailspin) and other fave after school shows (Chip'n'Dale, Ninja Turtles, the old Batman show). Ducktales woo wooo!
I had my first Deutsch class tonight!!! It was cool, but we moved sooooooooo slowly. Maybe it just seemed that way cause I already knew what we had covered, and I will be grateful for the slow-moving later, but eeek.... I think my prof. might already not like me so much (not that I really give a crap) b/c I was the loudest person in class. (I was just excited and happy, K?) I think I may have also been 'Ask Too Many Questions Girl'--which is appalling and I promise I will do better. Hay una chica de Columbia en mi clase y voy a practicar mi espanol con ella. Creen que es un buen idea? Por un mano, es dificil aprender aleman cuando practicar espanol. Por otro mano, me gusta much este idioma y quiero hablarlo mas. Ay, problemas. There were 2 women from Thailand in class--they will probably have the most trouble (different alphabet) & there were 5 ppl from Turkey! Yikes! One of them was sitting next to me and she looked overwhelmed/about to cry the entire time... I felt bad, but also a leetle bit annoyed when the prof assigned us as partners for this dialogue thing. Ok, yes, we have no common language but we had heard a variation on this dialogue for the past 1/2 hour and alllll we had to do was fill in the blanks. I tried and tried to talk to her but she wouldn't talk back, and it felt a little like HS where I was the SmartKid and feeling like I was the only one who knew what was going on... Although in HS ppl would inundate me with questions & this time the lady just stared at me... Anyway. There are these 2 (cute!!) Italian guys in class--one who needed directions to Goetheplatz as we were leaving--and asked me to come to a concert with him...sigh, I had plans.
With Steve! Too-old-for-me-British-guy. :( Still too old, still dreamy. Nuff said.
On the way home, I took out my Deutsche Buch on the Ubahn and started practicing. This girl sitting across from me kept catching my eye and smiling. Finally I said, 'Ich lerne Deutsche... and I'm kinda pathetic.' She said, 'No! You are doing well!!' We exchanged the usual 'where-are-you-froms' and when I told her I am American her eyes got all wide, 'I just returned from Rhode Island! I was an au pair there!' Ahh! A new au pair friend and one that can help me learn German!! :) Woohoo! Her name is Silke--she's cool :)
Ich hoffe du hast einen wunderbaren Abend.
ps: Pretty cool about Sandra Day O'Connor's new job, huh?
# posted by Heather @ 11:27 PM 
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He is 35. In the abstract, I always thought 35 was in my 'range.' Like, I would date anyone from 23-36 or something. But now that it's a possibility (OK, to be honest... it is NOT a possibility, I just have a schoolgirl crush--surprise!--but it did get me thinking) I think it would just be awkward. Maybe if our lives had more in common, like we were office colleagues or something. But he is this BankGuy with his own apartment (see, the fact that THAT impresses me suggests 'no good') and I am an au pair running around after children all day and living in the basement of this family's house. I <3 older men because they are confident but not cocky, and have direction and just seem to have their lives sorted, ya know? AND (bonus!) Steve is British so he has the cute accent and the years as a Prep School Cricket Player in his past--which just doubles his attractiveness. And, he is well-read (we talked about Seneca and Virginia Wolf and Orwell!) and well-travelled... Plus the fact that I can't function unless I am crushing on someone (I have legions of WM boys to attest to that one). Anyway, that was the long answer---
Short answer: He is 35.
ps: Barb! I just became a SuperHuge--what does that make you!?!?! :-D
Short answer: He is 35.
ps: Barb! I just became a SuperHuge--what does that make you!?!?! :-D
Haha...thanks Mom... you just broke the cardinal rule of parenting.
Making something forbidden will make your kid want it about 450984x as much!
But seriously, there is nothing going on... just my brain working overtime (as per usual).
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Making something forbidden will make your kid want it about 450984x as much!
But seriously, there is nothing going on... just my brain working overtime (as per usual).
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