Day 3

12:44 pm. I met up with Helga at her friends restaurant after posting on here and the first thing I saw when I walked in was a dog (hunde) sleeping on the floor! I was like omg that would never be allowed in Canada, it goes against so many health regulations! The hunde was really friendly though. I have learned that Hummer in German means lobster, and that beer in German is berry. For all you Buffy fans zander means a giant catfish. It's quite fun learning a new language. The electricity over here is a different wattage, and they have different plugs too, the outlets look like a circle with another circle in the middle with three round holes in a row, kinda like Orion's belt (which I saw last night as I was walking home). So with the change in currency, my old reliable alarm clock given to me by my Grandma Joan many moons ago isn't liking to keep proper time. I haven't quite figured it out, maybe I set it wrong, I dunno. I am just trying to think of other differences I have noticed that's about it so far. I think I am going to go to the movies or a musuem today, but helga was to go to the country to visit her mother, I really don't feel like travelling right yet. I am going to try and arange to go somewhere for christmas, an airline is offering a million free tickets so I will have to check that out. So that's the lastest. The apartment isn't bad, the wood stove isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. There is a propane cooking stove, which I am a little iffy about, but hey, I will learning. Helga will be staying at the apartment sometimes, but I will have it mostly to myself. It's not too bad coldwise. The room I am staying in has a loft bed which is neat. The entrance to the apartment is cold enough that we can keep milk (milch) and stuff to save money on hydro so we don't need to plug in the fridge. It seems to work okay. Hydro is apparently really expensive here. I forgot to mention the scandel when I got here, the girl who came to meet me at the airport Micheala is like my age maybe younger she is from here, I don't know how this happened or how they met, but she is married to like a 50+ american man named Guy from Alabama! They just got married recently! They wear their wedding rings on the right hand. (Gawan is around my age maybe younger). Oh yeah yesterday when I was coming home on the tram this american couple from S. Carolina thought I was Austrian at first, and were surprised to hear me and Helga speaking english.