Germany-- Week 23 Fun
in the snow, mail box problems and gas rations
Dear all:
This week started off with Gregg repeatedly saying he could
not open the mail box. He just couldn’t get
it open. This has gone on for
months. I gave him the combination and
every time he would pick me up at school unsuccessful. Checking the mail got to
be a real problem as I worked and did practice after school so I didn’t always want
to have to go and get the mail. Finally
I went with him to the mail box. As I did
the combination he was constantly saying yes that is how I do it but it doesn’t
work. Finally I opened the mail box and
he looked at me dead pan and said and I quote.
“You have to turn the button to open it. “ Yes he had been trying to pull it open for months. Go figure!
LOL
Another issue was gas.
Since we are making four trips to and from work as Gregg beings me and
comes home and comes back to pick me up and we went to Luxembourg this month we
ran out of our gas rations. We have been
told that we can ask to get it upped since we are using most of it for to and
from work so we will check into that next week.
That doesn’t mean that we get no gas we just have to pay those astronomical
prices that the Europeans pay.
YUK!! Anyway there are some
rations for a few things over here like coffee, tobacco and liquor.
We did not have internet for two days and someone told us to
unhook and hook the router back up—this worked for a couple of hours then it
went out again. So I spent 3 hours on
the phone with the internet people trying to figure out how to get it hooked
back up. This was comical as I would get on the phone and the computer would
talk German so I would just hit 0 until I got a person then just said English
till someone who could speak English came on.
Anyway after about 10 lost or disconnected calls I finally got a lady
who had to translate to the technician.
But between about six of us we got the router re configured by me trying
to read to them in German from my screen what it said. It was hilarious. But in the end success and
we all cheered.
After that we went to the Kontackt club dinner. It is a club in which German and Americans
get together and they travel some and try to learn about each others’
culture. I have to admit it was great
fun and delicious.
We had no snow at the beginning of the week although Gregg got
out and made a snow ball and hit it like a golf ball, see picture number 1. But
Friday night we had snow again and yes it was different kind of snow. This snow is like powdered sugar so I will call
it floating snow. The problem is that it
does not stick together so no matter how hard we tried we could not get it to
roll to make a snow man. We walked around
the neighborhood and I got some pictures-- note the picture of the yellow
church that is right down from our house-. Picture of snow shoveling, skiing, hoards of firewood, etc. We had some neighbor kids out skiing
and sledding down the hills around our house.
So we got out and came down the hill by our house in our blow up snow tube. We figured this we could handle. We were also able to make snow angels. It was loads of fun. We sure had to get bundled up – I even wore
long johns. Lol
Saturday we also went to Neumarkt again and I took some pictures
of the church there. The last picture is
a building in the town next to us- Velburg.
With that I will close for this week- planning on a lazy
day.
Hugs from Germany and have a great week,
Susan
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