Teaching the locals about WHOOPI...**

Dear Bloggy Blogger,

Tank Girls weather narrative: Its dryer and brighter but still overcast and cold out today.

I am sorry I did not blog yesterday, although I seriously doubt my American viewers will not even notice since I am basically waking up for the next day when they are all tucked in for bed.

LEGS secured our DREAM HOUSE in NEVER NEVER LAND!!!  Not sure when we can move in but I will keep everybody informed of any new developments.

I embarrassed myself at breakfast yesterday, I was incredibly clumsy and klutzy, I dumped orange juice all over the nice table cloth and bumped in to some things like all at once.....I asked Heidi how to say Clumsy in German after I profusely apologized.  She told me there was a word for it, but the fact I consider myself clumsy is foolish.  She basically said that spilling/breaking things is no big deal, that its life.

I went to Ansbach with Heidi to do some shopping and participate in our language exchange.  Heidi has agreed to help me with my GERMAN, and I have agreed to help her with her English.  On the way out there we talked about her kids, school, high school, University, Exchange Students, and I learned a lot of those words in GERMAN.  We also discovered many words in English/German are the same except they pronounce it a little differently.


Heidi runs the Pastorious Haus where I am staying right now.  She is probably around The Mommy's age, has three kids, and has been such an amazing friend and resource to me.



Our first stop was the mall in Ansbach.  Let me just say the SHOPPING IS INCREDIBLE HERE!!!  It is very funny because Heidi loves the shopping in the States because it is so cheap and I love the shopping in Europe because they are so fashionable and modern.

Heidi found a sweater on sale she wanted to buy.  Some observations; first of all Heidi wanted my opinion of the sweater when she tried it on.  I found this very sweet and endearing, I mean she really wanted to know if I liked the sweater on her.  And the sweater was beautiful on her, in case you were wondering.  Also the Sales Associates over here are more personal, they actually touch the customer and help them fit/decide on the item of clothing, I found this to me much different and more intimate than the way things are done in the States.



Then we went to the food market, where Heidi looked around for some bargains.  I found the first official NEW item for the NEW house.  I have wanted a Bonsai Tree for a really long time but I have never purchased one because they are slightly high maintenance.  Here is our NEW little Bonsai Tree.

After the mall and market we went to a wholesale place much like Costco.  It was funny how many things I recognized just based on the packaging.


On our way home we had a really funny conversation, and I am not sure that I will be able to capture it in the blog but here is my attempt:

Heidi told me that when they were in the states her daughter Onalina was having a problem with her ears.  They thought possibly a tick was causing the problem.  Her husband told her to be careful when she said the word 'tick.'  She said in German that the 'T' sound is more strong. 

Then she tried to get me to guess the word that is like this in English.  I was confused, and usually her and I play a game of Sharades in order to figure things out, but we were in the car so we couldn't. Here is the guessing game:


Heidi:'Like Animal'
ARMS: 'Um....feathers....fur?'

Heidi:'No...NO...'
ARMS: 'Eating...hunting?'

Heidi:'No...no...'
ARMS: In my mind I am thinking National Geographic...because she said Animal. So I say 'Like Sex?'

Heidi:'Yes...I think...you would say this to your husband.'

ARMS: In my mind I am like 'what the heck is she trying to say?!?'

Heidi: Then Heidi ran her hand down her leg.

ARMS: Suddenly I got it: DICK! You mean DICK!
Heidi:' YES!!! My husband says do not go to the Doctor in the States and say Onalina has a DICK in her ear.'

We laughed hysterically!

Unfortunately I had to do laundry.  Luckily I was able to hang out with Squirrely for the afternoon while the laundry was washing and drying.......I knitted while she organized her beads and we watched Emeril.


We went to the Aussie Pub for Burger night.  You get a burger and a beer for 5 Euro.  I met a bunch of the guys in LEGS' unit, they were all very friendly to me, and they were really excited about my boxing.  I always find this to be a little embarrassing, but some of them were really stoked about the possibility of me teaching boxing.  It always fun when the new people that you meet are interested in the same things you are. They even toasted me with more German Schnapps....which is called Schvedka- not sure about the spelling but its pronounced SHHHVET-KAH.

Of course the night was filled with trash talking and funny stories.  Some of the guys wanted us to do up and really party, but I was exhausted.  I told LEGS he could go and I would go back to the B&B.  He didn't want to go either.....we just aren't used to drinking and partying this much.  I don't really remember why but we ended up running down the cobble stone streets laughing our beyonce's off all the way to the B&B.

I have spent most of today lounging. I took Karmella for a beast run through the park and up some hills.  LEGS is on the base going to the dentist and doing some other errands.  


I wasn't sure what we were going to do tonight, I am not sure I am up for another night out at the Pub, BUT, I guess a lot of the wives are coming out tonight and want to meet me.  So we are going to the Aussie Pub again tonight for more GO-SEE's and MEETS.


AFTER homemade Sour Kraut and Weinerschnitzel from Heidi.  Her father is a butcher and she went and got the Weinerschnitzel special for us. Weinerschnitzel is pronounced Weener Shhhnit-Zel.



Random Stories:


I showed Heidi and her husband Rudy my blog the other night.  They wanted to know what Whoopi is.  So I told them what it was.  The way they say it is more like WHOOPEEE!  LEGS put his head in his hands in embarrassment and told me 'Only you would teach the Germans what the word 'Whoopi' is.



One thing I have noticed and found to be quite awesome is that the Germans really want to laugh and have fun......

According to my Daddy:  Grams believed for a long time that you could only call cell phone to cell phone, not cell phone to land line etc.  So yesterday she asked if my email was still the same because I am located in GERMANY now.  LAUGHS!



Today I skyped with my Grams and Pops, with the time change it was early in the morning for them. Pops answered with his hair sticking straight up.  He was trying to show me their new golden retriever puppy with the camera, instead I was looking at my grandfathers crotch for much longer then I should have. MORE LAUGHS!


Pops also called my blog, 'Your OOOGLE BOOGLE thing' AND LAUGHING EVEN MORE!



Over & Out,


Just another day in life of unlikely military wife....**