October 2013 ~ Chasing the dreams

To start off this post, I have to tell a really good joke we witnessed today in our language course. We have a girl there, who's from USA and she is not too good with pronouncing "ch". Instead of "ch", she pronounces "ck". So today, we were learning Reflekzivpronomen and the word "dich" came up. So we decided to ask her to pronounce that. Just for practice. At some point someone asked her to pronounce "Ich liebe dich". She did, and then we all started laughing...... I had to explain why it was so funny. But yeah, "Sie liebt dic(k)h".

Anyway, my language course is halfway through right now and I can say I have learnt quite some things If I could improve my vocabulary as well, it would be ok. I still have a problem with Akkusativ and Dativ and personalpronomen and präpositionen, but I'm getting there. Slowly. I enjoy my language course- we have a nice group put together and we have a lot of fun during the class every day. It's just normal. Thanks to the language course I know words such as "Stritzi", "Oachkatzlschwoaf", "Wutchl", "Mostschädln", "Schnaggal" etc. Yeah, I won't give you the translations, I can only tell that our teacher is 33 years old and single (took a while for us to get that information from him). Oh, also, we went to Schlossberg with our team and I realized can actually see my house from the mountain (Schlossberg is in the middle of the city and is more than 400 m high, fyi).

My life here has been damn busy. And to be honest, I've been lazy as well. To do a blog post. Anyway, last week, me and the bee guy went to look at his bees. Besides that, I could harvest some good ripe grapes and apples and even walnuts. So I had a whole week when I ate a bunch of grapes every day. Eco. How lush can life be?

Last week we didn't go out often with Hannes. He was ill and the German course drains my brains which means that by the end of the week I'm somewhat brain-dead. But....this week that just ended was a bit different. On Thursday we went to a dinner to Judith's place and on Saturday to a indoors "barbecue". Both of the evenings were really lovely. I met some new people, had to try to speak some German and had just lots of fun. Then yesterday evening the other Estonian girl and her boyfriend came over to our place for a dinner. We were joined by our landlord and her boyfriend as well. So it was many people, lots of food and ice cream and a really lovely evening. I think I already told you that the Estonian girl is really great, didnt I? Well, I'm happy that she's here. Her bf is also great. And we all get along perfectly. So it seems I already have some really nice friends here :) That makes me happy. I haven't missed Estonia here so far, maybe sometimes some of my friends, but in general I'm fine. If I had a job as well, I'd be even better! I'm still looking....

Oh also, time for random facts: the women are not allowed to go to strip clubs here (they are rivals, you know). Sour cream over here is thick like kohupiimakreem and doesn't taste good. There's a place in Austria, that's called Fuking (or sth like that). The snow came down in Tirol which is the country next to Steiermark, where I live. A touristic city is called Kurort (like Estonian kuurort) and "ort" means a place. Steiermark really loves pumpkin and pumpkinseed oil, you can even get a kebab here with that taste (will try it soon).

Talking about Kebabs- I still haven't tasted the best kebab here. Have tried 4, but they still weren't UK level. I'm on my way though- heard of a really good place in Turkish district. This will be my next kebab, I think. Also, the one with pumpkinseed oil.

Oh, also, I found Viennetta ice cream cake that I loved in England, in a supermarket here. (supermarkets here are weird- they don't have baskets and the cashiers till has too short lint to put things on and later to put them to your bag, also, you have to insert 1€ coin to a shopping cart to be capable of using it. You get it back later. )

We'll probably go to South-Tyrol in 2 weeks time with Hannes. He has elections there. I already voted for my municipality in Estonia. Hannes just looked and was surprised how easy it was. The thing with the elections in Tallinn- I think we have our own Berlusconi in charge of Tallinn......