after meike came home, we went right to kibo to see her mom and go to her basketball game. she was so tired i didn´t think she´d make it to kibo, let alone have enough energy to play basketball. but she dropped me off at home on andreaestr. and her mutti fed me soup and asked me to help her grade some english tests. (her mom teaches highschool english and french) " i think that sometimes i don´t exisit for you." where does the "for you" go? i said "i feel sometimes you think i don´t exist" would be better, but it´s not a very direct translation. reflexive is always hard. when we went to the basketball game, one of birgit´s friends was there, and i felt that familiar shunned feeling- until i listened closely and found i could understand what they were talking about, oh, 50% of the time. it was just enough to assure me the rest of the time they weren´t talking about me. i occasionally made a comment in english to prove i was following along. i had to really concentrate though- i could either follow the game or the conversation, never both. vocabulary´s so funny. eis is ice cream, but it´s also ice on the roads. when i think "Korb" i imagine a wicker basket on the arm of a hausfrau in the grocery store with a leek sticking out of it- but it´s a basket in basketball, too! when we got home i helped birgit with dinner and more english. when meike came home, my mother called and we both talked to her and allie. we watched while you were sleeping with dinner. unfortunately, meike had bought it in kanada, and it was in english! oh well.
vocabulary:
teilen- to share
auszeit- time out
begeistert- enthusiastic
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