Chocolate? NO THANK YOU!!!

Lesson number one: Never pretend you like food when you really don't.
Lesson number two: Never, ever, ever, pretend you like food when you really don't especially when it’s chocolate!!!!

The chocolate cake is haunting me! Tonight after a very interesting meal (she called it Chinese, but it definitely was NOT any form of Chinese food I have ever seen or tasted) my host lady leans over and explains "I have sweets vor you if you en like." Of course, I am never one to turn down something sweet so I smile and say yes! Dessert time is my favorite! I follow her into the kitchen very excited for some sugary goodness. She opens the refrigerator and pulls out something wrapped in tin foil. Then she starts explaining, "I save for you after Sunday." Suddenly my heart sinks! As she pulled back the foil my deepest fear was confirmed! It was THE cake! Ohh man!! What do you do? She explains that I can have 2 pieces to which I quickly made up an excuse about being to full. After much convincing I was able to make it out of the kitchen with only one piece of this "delightful" headache! So here I sit in my room with this silly cake sitting next to me. My plan? I think I shall wait until the cover of darkens when she quietly retreats her room for a night of peaceful slumber. Then when all is clear, I will sneak into the kitchen, crumble the cake into many pieces and distribute it throughout the trash can. Of course these drastic measures must be taken in case she happens to look into the trash can. We wouldn't want her finding any evidence. Crumbs are a must to disguise the presence of the cake in the trash. A whole piece is easily spotted, but crumbs…
She will never know... =)

Yesterday was our first camera workshop. It was amazing! Basically we sat and listened to this dude (with a very stylish mullet I might add) talk about how our cameras work and what all you can do with them. After lunch we were assigned a very hard task; Split into groups of 3, go somewhere and get some good footage! Simply translated: here take this very nice piece of equipment that costs more than your car and see who can get the best footage! Take a camera; take some friends and just play! Cool! I can do that =) At the end of the week we are to make a collage of the best shots. It was simply beautiful!! Savs, Jacob, and I grouped together and immediately went to work planning out what we could do. Sure there didn't have to be a story involved, but we wanted to make this interesting. Some how there needed to be a contrast going on so we developed 2 characters: a creepy stalker person and a wildly crazy happy person! Savs has this puffy black knee length coat complete with a hood that became the wardrobe of the stalker. My light grey fleece, blue scarf and Savs turquoise gloves completed the look of the crazy person and thus the characters came to life. Of course each one of us had to experience being behind the camera so that left the character roles to be filled by whoever was left. We all ended up playing one of the characters at some point. This made the content of our film quite amusing especially when it was Jacob’s turn to play a part. Have you ever seen a guy wearing a girl’s size small fleece with turquoise gloves or a girl’s small knee length overcoat? Words cannot describe how wildly random and hilarious our footage was. Maybe one day I can get parts of it uploaded for you to see =)

Then last night we got the chance to go to a professional soccer game! It was pretty neat. In aggieland we have the whole 12th Man towel thing where we twirl them in the air like a helicopter. In Dusseldorf they have that same concept but with scarves instead. Of course! What else would you do with your hot stuffy scarf while at an indoor soccer game? These guys are brilliant! =) Their favorite (and only) chant that they yelled over and over again sounded as if they were yelling "Dusseldorf! For tuna!" I couldn't figure out what in the world soccer had to do with fish, but oh well. Finally at the end I learned that their team name was Fortuna. (Something about Latin and fortunes…who knows?) I did find their songs rather interesting however. I can officially say I learned a German song. It's really complicated but I think I can teach it to you. Here we go. Can you say Dusseldorf? Do you know the tune to Amazing Grace? Good! Now sing the word Dusseldorf over and over again to the tune of amazing grace! Yay! You now know a German song too! I kid you not. They actually played this interesting song over the loud speakers with some woman singing. In fact, just pick a tune and insert the lyric "Dusseldorf." I know for sure I heard at least 3 different American tunes used in this manner. I had to laugh =)

Some pictures...


Soccer field.


Geoff, Jacob, and Barrett enjoying the soccer game =)


Yes that’s right! Instead of hotdogs they walk around with bread baskets! And instead of normal drinks like say Coke or Dr. Pepper they have these guys who walk around with a backpack keg thing full of beer and they will gladly serve you one. Didn't exactly want a picture of that, but they were there and it was funny =)


A crowd. Notice the empty seats in the top left corner. When they built the stadium they knew that they would never fill it so they painted the chairs random colors so that at a glance it looks full. Smart...


A common hair style for all ages around here..
This and the mullet! haha


Jacob and Geoff


Well I hope all is well with everyone. Have a wonderful day!