We’ve been checking into tickets to come home. We found some good deals, but didn’t buy them immediately because we didn’t want to fully commit to leaving on such-and-such a date. Well, those same tickets have increased in price… substantially. One nice thing about this is that it gave us more freedom of when we’d […]
Oofda, we’re doing a lot of blogging today. Three posts. Here’s my completed homework assignment: Translation: English is in my heart. It’s the common language of my family and best friends and I speak English with my husband at home. With English, I can show the real me. German is fun for me. It’s in […]
Mere minutes after Joni posted about her German Class, I’m posting about mine! It’s like we plan these things or something… While Mary Jo just started her class, I’ve been going to mine for two and a half weeks now. It’s gone very well so far. I don’t feel lost, and I’m actually learning new […]
I’m in a German class. I went to the first meeting yesterday (Monday). It was a bit of an ordeal getting into the class. It was full, so I put myself on the waitlist. They called my cell while I was doing stuff and they left a voice mail saying there was a place open. […]
We mentioned that there are crazy candy-toy eggs here quite a while ago. Well, we recently discovered a different version of that candy-toy egg. This new one just does a 50/50 split instead of embedding the toy inside the egg. I think a video would explain it better:
Way back in December, during that whole “Christmas” thing, Mary Jo got me a wood dinosaur set. It’s several sheets of thin wood with little parts stamped into each. You’re supposed to remove the parts, then assemble it into something cool. They make kits that turn into houses, jeeps, tanks, boats, and even frogs. MJ […]
Something kinda weird is that there are TV channels that change during the day. Perhaps an example: yesterday evening we were watching Avatar (the good one) on TV. They were having a big marathon, so we were watching a while… then more today… and probably more tonight. Anyway, Avatar is a Nickelodeon property. So during […]
Today we made a little trip to grab some stuff, but we took a new and exciting way! During the walk, we came across a sweet park. It’s a little depressing how awesome the parks are around here. We really want to show them to the nieces and nephews, but there’s that big wet thing […]
Since moving to Linz, Austria, we’ve learned a few things that we wish we’d known right off the bat. In the interest of having this information “out there” (even though it will probably never be seen by someone who would find it useful), I’ve decided to make a little list of things to know about […]
I went to the Europaschule today (the practice school where my students practice teaching). I had plans to finish up the lesson from last week, which involved differences and stereotypes about the U.S. and Austria. The teacher was supposed to email me about what we would do after that, but he never did. Something possessed […]