Alpenmilch Luftschokolade

For Carmyn:

STAY AWAY FROM MY CHOCOLATE.

No, I was just kidding.
You can have my Canadian chocolate. The German stuff is way better anyways.
And same goes for the Nuetella.
Enjoy :)

I wrote about you in my blog.
Maaaailll tiiimmmeee?

For everyone else:

I'm sorry, I don't have any chocolate for you. But I do have an update! :O
... I think.
Although I'm not entirely sure what to write.
But I suppose I'll give it a shot.

As you may have already heard, (if you havn't, read the older posts. I think I may have mentioned something about this) I was sick for the first few weeks. I was sick when I got here, felt better after a week or so, was better for a few days and got sick again. It was about a month of lameness. But now I am feeling better and in combination with my evaoprated shyness, I'm a loud person again. I think I have succesfully confused some of the people here. I'm pretty sure my roommates think I'm nuts.
The real Alicia has escaped.
Muwaahaha.

Erm.
So that was pointless, but I'm not really sure what to write. Before I started to write this I read Karl's blog and thought 'wow, this is so short.' And decided that I would write a new update, and it woud be way longer and more in depth than Karl's, but I don't know if that's going to be possible. I feel like I'm just rambling about complete nonsense just to fill up space.

I think I'll just be honest and say that I'm not really in the mood to write anything. And I think I'll call it quits before this turns into complete nonsese. Perhaps, maybe, if you just check back in a few days I'll have something a bit more thrilling.


-Love you all! :)


Send mail?

Am I just digging a bigger hole?

Erm,

So I was reading over my latest entry and realised saying 'I feel like I'm wasting my time on facebook' (or something along those lines..) might not have been the nicest thing to say.

To clarify: It's not that I feel like keeping in touch with y'all is a waste of time, parce-que it's not. I just feel like I can go on facebook anytime at home without paying. But large sums of money were paid for me to come here and it would be more valuable if I spent my time doing things that I can only do here rather than something I can do at home.

If that makes sense....
Hopefully.

And if not, I apologise again.

I THINK YOU SHOULD SEND ME LETTERS.

So, to start this blog, I just thought I should mention that I, Alicia Perello, no longer have a deadly German cold.
However, I have recently discovered how deadly the German cold is.

Okay, well, it's not exactly deadly persay, but it is very chilly here. Currently, I am sitting with socks and slippers (and to clarify why this is significant, I cannot stand wearing that combination at home), a sweater (with 2 layers underneath), a blanket, and my laptop warming my legs. During lectures I have often added a scarf and mittens to this combination.
It's weird. It was so hot, and now it is so cold.

Cold, cold, cold.

I can't wait for winter when I will be able to embrace the cold. It's strange to say this but I really want warm costal rain. The other day we had rain, but it was like ice and nothing like home. I find it somewhat strange that I'm able to tell the difference.

I feel like I am somewhat neglecting facebook and perhaps some of you are concerned as to why I have clearly been on, but not responeded to anything you've sent me.
Well, the answer is quite simple, it takes a lot of effort anddd I feel like the more time I spend responding to people, the more I feel as though I'm just wasting my time.
I am quite sorry.
Desole.
So, I haven't really spend more than 5 minutes on facebook for a while.
But, thank you all very much for the happy birthday wishes!

It was quite nice to see that I have not been forgotten. (Or at least to see that some of you occasionally check the "birthday's" list on facebook.)
I don't know how many of you saw the lovely, very attractive picture with me and the polka-dotted shower cap, but if you did... I wasn't wearing it by choice. Apparently it's the official "birthday crown" and since my birthday was first, I had the honor of being the first person to don the ... crown.



I felt compelled to write another blog entry today, but I really feel like I'm just rambling about nonsense. Am I? I mean, I'm not entirely sure what to write about. Did you guys see my album of pictures? Parce-que thats basically what I've done this past week or so. And if you saw that, I think everything in it is pretty much self explanitory.

OH! Except one thing, one guy Braden, brought this game called BANG! with him. And I've been playing it a bunch. The first time was so confusing and frustrating, but after that it is quite the stupendous game! If anybody sees it, I highly reccommend you buy it. And don't feel discouraged when it doesn't make sense at first... the second time you play (especially if you play with people who know how), it's amazing.

Anndd since we're on the topic of board games I suppose i should mention that I learned how to play Cities and Knights. WAYY BETTER THAN REGULAR SETTLERS :) It's awesome. But it requires a lot more strategy and thinking... soo I'm not great at it... but, it's rad.



Ya...
that's about it.



I'm sorry, my bad... Sheena if you're reading this. You can ignore the title.
Love you more than the rest of them :)

jk.. but seriously, send me mail :)

Death by cold.

Guten Morgen.

And so there begins - and ends the - extent of my german vocabulary.
But, I have signed up for German lessons in the hopes that I will soon be jabbering away in Germanic (although, seeing as I have a terrible time with languages, likely not).

Anyhow, I just thought that I should occasionally update y'all with whats been going down here in Alemania.

My health, that's what. Down the drain. Yup, I am sick; MY FIRST GERMAN COLD! (...woot.) It has been quite the joy to suck on the german halls-like-candies (vivil) and throat lozenges. Last night, it was also fantastic knowing that as I sat in my room- moping in self-pity, hoping for a magic insta-better pill, leeking my brain out of my nose, sneezing like no tomorow (sneezing? ya, I'm confused too... I never sneeze) and coughing up my left lung- there was a thrilling bonfire happening 30 feet away with thrilling bonfire songs and other thrilling bonfire usuals.

I've been sick since tuesday? But the self-pity moping thing was mostly just last night, don't worry. I'm not completely emo yet.

So before I left, Karl, almost as a side note/ afterthought, gave me this one tidbit of advice "Watch out for the German spiders." I assumed that Karl was just in one of his 'look out for the worst case senario' moods, making fun of me and making a big deal about nothing. But no. Seriously, there are spiders everywhere. It's like the worst thing ever! At least at home the spiders hide and I only find them when I move something that they have taking a shinning to. But here there is nothing of that sort. The spiders are not afraid of the people and they sit everywhere. On the walls, on the ceiling, in the bathrooms, on the balcony... they are huge, fat and so, SO GROSS! Even as i sit typing this, I can see one on the ceiling like 6 feet away from me and I bet there's a bunch that I don't want to look for. Ugh. I don't even scream when I see them because they have completely lost their element of surprise. I strongly dislike them. Next time Karl, I will listen to you.

What do you guys want to know about?

Food = DELISH. But there is so much bread. Like at every meal.. it is insane. I am going to gain so much weigh from bread alone. I need to stop eating it.

Weather = Lovely, the mornings are somewhat chilly but the afternoons feel like August, and lately there has been a hint of wind in the evening, a nice October breeze. It is quite pleasant :] I like.

People = Super nice. Everybody here is so cool. Theres a girl from Japan and for international night (which was on friday) she dressed another girl in a kimono-like thing and did some Karate for us and it was so cool :) AANNDD before, when I thought "European people" I imagined people from France and Italy who were super fashionable and that jazz.. and yes, I have since realised that was a very narrow and steryotypical view point, but there is a girl here from France, who is GORGEOUS andd worked at a fashion company and did some design works and stuff.. and when she did her presentation for international night, she "brought a little bit of Paris" by wearing her 500E heels that were given to her as a going away gift from the company she worked for. I am a tad bit envious. But, to give the gyst: Everybody here is so awesome and unique, it's nice.

Room = I'm in a room designed for 10 people, but there are only 8 girls which means we have a lot of space :) It is great. I like my roomies. They are awesome girls.

Hiking in the Alps = like Grouse Grind, but worse for an hour. It sucked... haha. But was really cool, I had hotchocolate in a little cafe in this mountain valley and it was quaint and cute. And there was a guy herding sheep and all the cows had bells. I felt like Heidi. It was very picture-esc? esque?

Lectures = enjoyable. I am learning a lot. I have a note-book, if you want to see what I am learning, you can see it when I get back. Or just facebook me? I don't perticularily feel inclined to write it all out.

The PAPA Prayer = We have to read it, and then write an essay. It is good. You should read it.

Mailbox = Empty.


Erm.. yeah, that about finishes that list.. if you want to know about anything, just let me know.