I’ve been fed more cake in the three weeks I’ve lived in Germany than in my past three years living in the US. Seriously, you eat cake just because it tastes good. No special occasion necessary. I hate frosting, so I hate most cakes. But nobody uses that frosting shit here. It’s like solid chocolate, fruit, things that are uhhh not nasty.

Spending those days with Thilo was heaven. It made me a lot less homesick. I absolutely love his family. It didn’t feel like we were even apart for two years… more like days. Although now that it’s been a day and a half without him I miss him just as much as I ever did in those years!

Today was a barbecue here. We had friends over, a cute couple, their five year old son and infant son. The kids all played while the adults made polite conversation… since I can’t follow the conversation, I played with the kids.

Lunch was steak.. and steak here is pork chops. Literally, it is called steak but it is a pork chop. We also had salad and I ate a lot of salad.. I don’t get it, but I actually seem to be enjoying salad. I would occasionally eat it in the US, but more out of respect when I ate at a friends or when my parents forced me to. It started that way here, but suddenly I realized I didn’t hate it anymore. Just random.

I was also offered a beer. So I accepted. It was the same beer Thilo chose out of hundreds at the bar we went to on Tuesday with a group of Americans he meets up with to keep his English up. Can you just mail a beer? I want to send it to a friend. Haha. They have the prettiest decorative beer glasses here. So much detail!

Okay, let’s see.. Only a matter of days before I start my German courses. Until then, I’m trying to work on vocabulary. Just looking around the house, in the garden, etc and if I don’t know what it is called in German, I figure it out. The kids are great help!

I can’t get the Eurovision Contest winning song out of my head. Germany’s Lena won with the song “Satellite” and it isn’t particularly an amazing song but it is catchy and omg it just came on shuffle as I wrote the title. This is creepy….