learning Bavarian

Dear all...
anybody who has not realized yet how valuable it is to understand and speak a language: think about it, and all those of you who are German but not Bavaria: DONT COME HERE UNLESS YOU HAVE A DICTIONARY! Unbelievably I really thought I would at least understand this weird way of communication, if not even speak some bits and pieces of it... but reality proves me wrong.

Thursday - 15:15 MET - Munich Airport: I should just have touched down with Germanwings flight 4U 72 from Cologne. However, the flight was delayed for 1,5 hrs. Damn it? no way... happily I was able to spend another extra 1,5 hrs at CGN Airport - after having been there 2 hrs in advance for check in.... how nice.... and then, even better... the delay is caused by a missing document for (yuhuuuu) a COMPLETELY NEW AIRCRAFT! It was actually going to be the first passenger flight this Airbus 319A should fly! So great! How lucky can I be??? ... entering this plane with care not to break/mess-up/miss-to-see any detail of this miracle of technology I floated through the rows looking for the perfect seat to inaugurate: 14 F - a beautiful number, describing a even more marvellous seat. Just at the right front side of the wing with a perfect view of the freshly painted, perfectly shiny wing.... with newly shinging letters saying 'Dont walk beyond this point' and onto the Airport building... ahhh..... I'm still in a haze...

ok.. well, it stopped eventually.... maybe at the point that the friendly (at least I guess so) employee of the Deutsche Bahn at Munich Airport tried to help me to buy a month-pass for the subway network of munich. well, to say the least, he didn't speak any of my languages and I didnt speak his...

I arrived at my families home not long after... having enjoyed another hour of searching for the right place to obtain my ticket and then back to the subwaystation on Munich Airport...

ok ok ok ... I get the point, you might get bored... so I'll carry on a little faster (cant get any more interessting than the beauty of check-ins... customs... A320s and Boeing 737s.. the sound of a starting turbine or the smell of kerosine in the air anyways).... Well... Friday I spent the day with my folks here... did some shopping and at night I met with some StudiVZ-Network people for the Summerfestival of Munich University. It was a great night and I am starting to famliarize my family with the fact that people my age might go out some nights... and that nooo...11pm is actually not considered LATE!

so... here some facts I've learned so far:

- Munich is soooo beautiful
- in Munich the weather is nicer than in Holland :P :P :P
- Bavarians are quite discriminating in their lanugage: check this:
- a 'Neger' (negro) = beer with coke
- a 'Russe' (russian) = wheatbeer with lemonade
- a 'Schwuchtel' (gay) = beer with apple juice

so... tomorrow I will start my internship! I have to say I am quite excited and a bit scared - well, first days I guess are like that... I hate them. having to remember thousands of places, names, things, rules... not knowing anything yet, not being able to contribute anything to the work yet (despite making copies or cooking coffee)... always being in the way and hindering the actual continuation of work... but well... that will go over... I'll tell you about it soon!

and now, I'll go to bed,
Grüaß eich (greetings to you)!

moving

hello everybody,
once more I am moving again. Today is the last complete day I spend in Breda this year, tomorrow I will be going to Germany, staying at my parents house for a few nights and leaving for munich on Thursday. So, anyone who intends to send me sth. by antique-paper-based-mail... ask me for my new address first... as I dont wanna publish it here.

Its weird to be leaving again... today I am packing (which I should be doing right now actually)... and I feel somewhat out of place. Yesterday has been my last working day at the ikea... and like last days usually are, I didn't even notice any of the small things that used to annoy me (like customers standing in front of a product with a humongous price sign on it asking for the price etc.) and it was just a perfect working day and I will seriously miss it! I guess next year I'll return, but I'll try to get another job in sales instead of logistics.

so that for now, I really cant think of anything funny, amusing, entertaining or in anyway more interessting to write for you... and I should seriously get going with packing up otherwise I will still be stuck here at Christmas.

happy new year,
Claudia