15 February 2014
Today was awesome!
After looking for houses this week (and the past several!) I started making calls this morning...Auf Deutsch!!!!
It was so fun/scary/rewarding/embarrassing trying to speak German to Germans on the phone.
I did fairly well between my very broken and terrible Deutsch and their ein bißchen (little bit) Englisch.
Our first two calls were a bust 1: no dogs :( and 2: already rented.
My 3rd call was so difficult!
The person who answered the phone wasn't the actual owner of the house listed, and he took down my number, said he would call his friend (for whom he listed the house) give her the number and would have her call me back....
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No call
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Did my hair and make up...
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Still no call
So I called the same person. Turns out he wrote down the wrong number ...fixed that.
and then....someone called...
The lady who is renting the house ...Sie spricht kein Englisch. (She speaks no English)
So her friend who speaks gut Englisch called us and we arranged to meet!
(This story is long, sorry)
Met them at the house (thank you Garmin GPS) which was a good 25 minutes on back roads, over country side, and through quaint neighborhoods.
Two little old ladies were waiting for us there. Adorable, old, and German! Lovely lovely ladies!!!
We walked through the house with them plus a cute 6 yr old girl. The house was huge and adorably German. 3-5 bedrooms (not sure what makes a bedroom here and what doesn't), a large living/dining room, nice back yard with patio, stove, fountain, and PARTY HOUSE! I'd call it a guest house but it actually does have a bar haha :)
Its not crazy fancy like the new houses we've seen but it has a lot of storage and shelving. It also belongs to a crazy cute town!
So the land lady said yes to the dog and yes to our family and come Tuesday we will have a signed contract.
We have a move in date of March 1st, and we are so excited!!!
Throughout the tour of the house and speaking with the ladies I used as much German I could muster!
They were so pleased and said that "Americans that learn the language are the nice Americans".
She also asked how long we have lived in Germany. When I explained we had only arrived this week, she asked when I lived here before...
I told her this was our first time and she was really surprised. Apparently, my German isn't absolutely terrible!!!
Ah, this story is still going, hang in there!
Anyways, the little girl Emilie, and Bryton were hitting it off so well that the English speaking old lady Helle, said she would like to bring Bryton over to her house so they could play and she would give Bryton and Gavin Gummi Bears. So after the papers were signed we followed her to her house.
We had Gummi Bears (AS PROMISED!), the kids played and Helle talked our ears off.
• Her favorite places in the US (which she visited 17 times) are San Fransisco and BRYCE CANYON!!!
•She collects forein cookbooks and (stolen?) Restaurant menus
• She has 4 children and like 8 grandchildren and 3 grand grand children (that's what she called them) This was her very large family
•She loves American white bread and chocolate chips!
•and every Christmas she makes her family a 40lb Butterball turkey.
I told her that I was 6 of 7 kids and she said, " You're Mormon!"
Ja....I told her
Then she shuffled off to another room and came back with several German Books of Mormon!!! Haha the Missionaries found her after a visit to Temple Square. She said she's never seen boys eat so much haha!
She also said she was happy being Protestant, and that the Missionaries eventually stopped coming over every 4 weeks.
After about an hour visit we left our new friend Helle (and Emilie) and went back to base.
After we relaxed at home for a bit we decided to venture out to the local area and go shopping at Globus. Globus is like the Wal-mart of Germany, but way cooler. It has so much to offer there, including a food court, and mall like clothing stores as well.
No worries I took picutres! Like one or two ....
Turns out I am a huge fan of German shoes so I will be buying several of those.
Um, the shopping carts are like the ones we had in Japan in that they turn with all 4 wheels. Its not the easiest of skills to learn °~°
Jason and I loved looking at the deli and meats department, and between our ooos and ahhhs a German man stopped us and told us something we were looking at was delicious. (I don't know....it looked like bologna meatloaf to me).
We found a candy isle (score) and each picked out something.
I also spotted some soda with Ron Burgundy on it, stayin classy Deutschland;)
At checkout we realized that we were suppose to have our own bags, so I bought a very large blue shopping bag with stars:)
Hopefully we won't forget them every time, buying shopping bags at €3.50 a pop will get expensive fast.
After a very long Time of shopping/meandering we stopped for Abendessen (dinner) in the food court. It was much like a subways/cafeteria, everything behind glass and you had trays...
Hard to explain...
Guess I could have taken more pictures....sorry
I ordered everything in German! How cool is that?
2 kiddie meals (1 chicken nugget meal and 1 schnitzel) as for Jason and I, I asked what something's were and got one of each. 1 schnitzel and one fisch (fish). (Pictures included.)
Everything was delicious!
When we came home (almost died BTW going the wrong way on an Einbahnstraße (one way street!!!)
We ate our candies and they were fabulous!!!
I bought dickmann's chocolate (couldn't resist *-*)
Pictures also included.
Anyways, it was a good day with lots of fun things to do. And we will continue having our adventures and posting them.
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