Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Kleiderspielen!








So these are just some fun pictures since there is nothing going on right now. Everyone has been really sick here and so we haven't been doing anything. Actually, we took Dagmar into the hospital today so she's really not doing well. But the girls and I are having a lot of fun together. So they have been very taken lately with playing dress up in my room. So these are some pictures of a photo shoot with me and Majlie. She wanted to be a top model like Heidi Klum.

She wasn't prepared and I snapped it anyway, therefore a little awkward!


The Germans are not much better coming up with poses than most of Asia with the whole obsession with thumbs up....

Very chic! So yeah, just a little bit of fun. We don't have anything exciting coming up until our trip to Berlin this summer. So I still have no idea when that is. But Dirk should be booking our trip to Malloka soon!!! Yay!

So yeah, everything is good here. Just wanted to say hi! Auf Wiedersehen!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

TEMPEL!!!!






No, the heading of this blog is not spelled wrong, it's temple in German. I'm not THAT bad of a speller, even though I know some of you are shaking your heads at that....




So these are were we stayed for the trip. It is a boy scout camp. Apparently they have English camps too because I saw pictures of some boy scouts sitting in chairs and written on the chalk board were English boy scout things. Pretty cool.






The scenery was really pretty, I never got a chance to take good pictures of the land, but I hope that it's not the last time I go. The further south you go the prettier it gets. It was absolutely gorgeous. It's pretty much the prettiest place I have seen with my own two eyes.




So you can't see it well, I was still on the bus, so this is a moving photo, but that's all there was to this town. I took a picture of it because that's how EVERY town was on the way. It was all very much like I had originally pictured Germany to be. The milkmaid idea kind of thing...



This proves I spelled it right!



It was a beautiful warm day and the temple is SO pretty. Different set up than American ones, but very pretty.







This is looking out at the town from the temple grounds. The temple is seriously RIGHT in the middle of this tiny town. So it's just one a small hill, surrounded by the houses and streets too small for two cars, or one bus. I have no idea how our driver managed it.



So the building to the right is where you actually go in. No one goes in through the temple doors. You go through this under ground tunnel to get to the temple, which is on the left (after you have gotten house shoes of course.) So yeah, it's a little different.


We were packing up to leave and Jessi was making beautiful faces at me. (That's Jessi as is Yes - ie)






Jessi, Emily and I (Emily is the other American Au Pair) we decided it wasn't pretty enough behind us so then came the next picture.


So I really like this picture, but there is a story. So this is the eventual outcome, but we asked one of our friends to take the picture so he was like playing the Photographer role and was like, ok, stand like this and do this, no look this way. And so he took the picture with Emily's camera so I don't have it but it looked horrible. We were all standing like in a line, and had to look down the hill, away from each other. It was totally a retarded picture, so we teased him about it from then on!

We decided it lookes like she was asking for her autograph, again they were making really funny faces that I didn't get my camera out in time for. I was really slacking photo wise on this trip...

This is us and Aaron, the guy I spent most of the time with. He spoke really good English and he was really cool.

We had to get Jessi in there. The the guy in the way back decided he better get in too!

It was soo much fun! I loved it! The Tagungs (what we call this sort of thing) are really fun. We don't really have a whole lot like them in the states...but it was a lot of fun!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Gar nichts

So I thought that since I don't really have anything interesting coming up, and my camera is broken, I would do this. I stole it from Jimmy, which according to his blog he stole from Michelle, who stole it from Melissa. Or something of that sort....


Four things you may or may not have known about me in no particular order, directions are at the end! ENJOY!!

Four jobs I have had in my life
Au Pair
MTC Provo UT
BYU Cougareat
Walmart

Four movies I would watch over and over:
Dumb and Dumber
Transformers
Pride and Prejudice
Tommy Boy

Four Places I have lived!
Excelsior Springs, MO
Provo, UT
Ypsilanti, MI
Heide, Germany

Four Tv Shows I watch
Arrested Development
Flight of the Conchords
Gilmore Girls
The Office


Four places I have been:
Germany
Amsterdam
California
Canada

Who do you E -mail (regularly): No particular order
My Mommy
My Sister (Melissa)
My Sister (Linda)
Mr. Harlan

Four of my favorite foods:
Fondu
Bratwurst
Bratkartoffeln
Mongolian Beef (P.F. Changs)

Where I would rather be right now:
No where!!! But places I could stand being if I wasn't here:
Home with my family
With Michelle
Provo, UT
China

I am looking forward to this year:
Learning fluent German
Forgetting English
Going to Paris
Going to Majoka (An island south of Spain)

This is my blog for my time in Germany. I thought this would be a good way for people to see what's going on while I'm there.