New Beginnings

Monday, January 19, 2009

Mystery Meat

Day after day my friends and I await our lunch in the long line of kids wondering with fear at what we will be served today! My school is known for its terrible lunches with interesting sauces, desserts, salads, potatoes, and its ever-so-famous 'Mystery Meat'! We are never quite sure what we are eating, all we know is that is sure doesn't taste normal and some days, when it's really bad, we end up saving ourselves at the 'Student Store'!

Apparently my school received a better, 'gourmet', lunch service this year, but from what my friends have said it seems like nothing much has changed from previous years. O well, what ever will we do about our daily little mysteries? I guess it adds some excitement and thrill to the ever so long lunch line, although sometimes mysteries don't taste as good as they sound!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Connection Obsession!

For a while now my friends have been constantly bugging me about Facebook and Myspace, saying I should get it, it's really fun, and a good way to stay in contact with people! Well, I finally gave in and have been consumed and obsessed with it ever since! I do agree though, it is a wonderful thing for staying in contact with people, seeing there photo's, and a lot more, but can distract me from things such as homework and an occasional chore or two!

Today I have controlled myself with them, only checking them a few times and trying to catch up on my blogging (Due to family pressure!) , emailing, and more! But, it is hard not to spend hours on end on the websites! They've pulled me in with "Flairs", tests, "Chatting", and more, its all so overwhelming and fun! Examples below;

A Little Taste of Home...

Ever since I can remember my family has had the tradition of 'Home Made Pizza' every Friday. But that tradition slowly faded as the moving process started near the end of May '08! Friends and family constantly would tell my Dad how delicious his pizza's are and always looked forward to it! I personally have to agree! He is quite the master of the art of pizza making and it was greatly missed during the summer months of our move!

Other complications were brought forward though, all the ingredients we needed would take a while to find at the store, seeing they are all in German! But that's where Google Translate comes into play! Out of all the ingredients we couldn't find yeast so decided to use our handy dandy Google Translator and found it translated to Hefe in German! Now that we knew our word we could find the ingredient for our ever longed for, famous Craig's Pizza! Yummy Yum...

The finished product!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Baby It's Cold Outside...

Over the past couple of month's my family and I have been surviving pretty well without a car! We have figured out the bus and tram schedule's and have made our way's around with our bikes...But winter has finally come to Bremen, and it's a whole different story!

Every time the door is opened just a crack, chills are sent down your spine! It is so cold here in Bremen that our weekly routine of taking bottles on out bikes to the drink department store down are street and taking the bus to pick up our groceries has gotten harder and colder and a much less exciting and appealing job! There is no snow here but the humid bitter cold forces you to extremely layer up!

I am usually one that is fond of winter. I've grown up with snow and cold weather all my life and every weekend during the winter I would be up at Snowbird or Alta skiing away! But, this cold is different! Bitter, humid, bone chilling cold is not my kind of winter! Bring on the sunshine, shorts, and summer! I've had enough of the Bremen winter!