message before the blog: there is really only 1, ok 2 words, why I haven't posted more and earlier and these words are procrastination and the internet. its da truuuf.
ERDING, GERMANY!
I found out where I'm going to be spending my year in Germany!...well actually I found out about this about 5 months ago and to tell the whole truth I am actually already here, unpacked, and well acquainted. But being lazy and being gifted in the art of procrastination I decided that now would be a good time to announce it.
Before I came here I literally researched the crap out of this town. Which seemed like a good idea at the time but...not only did this make me lose sleep reading about Erding in the wee hours of the night, but it also was totally and completely useless seeing as that my host dad, Thomas, seems to enjoy his time telling me the very gritty, sometimes unnecessary details about EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING, in this town.
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| Street by my House :) |
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| Downtown Erding |
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| Downtown Erding - Outdoor Restaurants :) |
To tell you the truth I really don't mind because these past dew days have been a jet lag blur that all I can do is sit and just listen to words being thrown at me, while staring out the window like a drone and to top it off I pretty much fall asleep every time I sat down, sometimes I was standing. So the next thing I need is the chore of forming words or even full sentences. lol
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| BING! (leaving Toronto. note the hipster shot, sewww hipster!) |
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| BANG! (over some European country) |
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| BOOM! (I told you things were a blur) |
The first day wasn't very eventful and I was sooo "out to lunch" it didn't even feel real (it was like a scene from the matrix) but something I do remember was the dessert. OH MY LANTA! After dinner at one of the traditional Bavarian restaurants in town, which portions were almost elephant size, I went to a small and cute little gelato and ice cream shop. There was a whole menu dedicated to different ice cream meal choices and I decided that I would order one of the "smaller" ones since I already ate quite a big dinner. When my ice cream order arrived it would put epic meal time to shame (another shame was that I didn't take a picture of it). On the positive side though the ginormous ice cream gave me just the sugar rush I needed to unpack my 3 sumo wrestler sized luggages and get my room "organized" (I use that term loosely because MY definition of organized is a social workers definition of unliveable). Needless to say my first day was eventful and uneventful at the same time....yup.
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| My Room - Before :( |
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| After :) |
The next day was much better, my host mom Astrid woke me up and we ate breakfast, which was weird. Not because breakfast was served in some crazy german fashion, no, because I was EATING breakfast which was usually a meal I skipped everyday in Canada (my bad). But I had no problem wolfing it down it was delicious. That afternoon my host parents and I went to Freising, a larger german town about 30 minutes away from us, for a fair. Supposedly the months of September/October are fair and festival months in Bavaria. The fair was, pardon the pun, fairly big. There were many people in the traditional dirndl and lederhosen, there was also the traditional beer tent which to me looked ginormous but was actually one of the smaller ones. To bad one of the D's not to break was drinking or else all I would for that event would be the german translation of Beer Please! haha needless to say this festival was a great way to give me a glimpse of what more bigger and even better festivals lie ahead.
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| Candy Appel :) - just like the ones in Canada! awwee yeah! |
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| FANTAstic! |
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| "tiny" beer tent, they have at least one at every festival. C'est la vie :) |
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| My maturity level...zero. |
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| A businessman and a monk, fo real. |
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| Fountain with tiny man in Freising, Germany |
The first week was filled with non stop traveling and touring around my area. I went to Munich almost everyday and I have to say it is absolutely GAAAAWGES! Not only do they have amazing shopping centres but its just soo lively and great to people watch. Yes I am a creep :P I also went to one of crazy ol Kind Ludwig II castles and holy hell does this man know how to LIVE IT UP! These castles were insane and expensive...thats why I'm only buying 2 instead of my initial 5. Besides the über fancy castles one of them actually had a *cough* overly priced *cough* porcelain factory and boutique. I don't care if each plate is €500 porcelain under any circumstance is tacky. Oh by the way I forgot to not that a quarter of the castle doubles as some private elementary boarding school....yeah learn your ABC'S in a fruitin fancy ass castle. -___-
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| Holy crap CHANDELIERS!! |
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| You'd shit your pants if you saw how fancy this was!!1!!1!! |
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| OH HAAAY GURL HAAAY! Say whaaaat?! |
By Friday, which happened to be my first fourth day in Germany lol, I was so tired so my host mum Astrid let me sleep in till 10am! Little does she know that I usually wake up about 3 hours after 10 on regular weekends. This day really made me feel more like a regular German civilian and less like a tourist. It consisted of mainly running errands and chilling at home. It would've been even better if not for they most scariest and devastating moment in my life happening. While exiting the 6 storey furniture store I realized that I was missing my blackberry and it was indeed lost. Not loosing hope my parents and I went back searched top to bottom and made sure that the workers knew of such devastation. But alas we didn't find it and I cried quietly on the ride home, ok I didn't cry but I would if I could.
After dinner the family usually likes to watch a sport game, or two, and this nights sport was Basketball, the European championship league. It was no NBA but a lot of these players actually played in the NBA during their regular season and not only was the game between Lithuania (new country of the day) and Germany in tenses but my family was also intensely watching and commenting on the game. Now I know that these are my kind of people! Their love for sports is just as enthusiastic....uhhhh errr ok maybe just as crazy as mine :)
Naomi
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