They call the cold air Cooper
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Our weather has taken a sudden shift toward winter this week, due to the arrival of a high-pressure system from Siberia, called a Hochdruckgebiet.
Category Archives: Language
Sweet!
Thanks for all your comments and well-wishes for the test today! I am pleased to be able to report that I got an “A” for the course overall, having scored an “A-” on the test (homework, participation, and class attendance … Continue reading
Seen in the Street
I have my next German course test tomorrow. As I spent time trying to study grammar and the more than 500 new words from the last 2.5 weeks of class, I realized I would only have time for a quick … Continue reading
On stage
It strikes me as I go through the my daily routine in Tübingen that everybody around me has also read the script for daily life that we learned that day in class. I.e., on any given day, perhaps we’ll … Continue reading
Stuck in the previous track
Today I had an odd experience of talking on the phone with our bank back in Bolzano. The friendly gentleman on the phone said he spoke English, so I switched to that, having originally asked — in both Italian and … Continue reading
Putting on my Hut and Frack
On our first trip to the local library, Chris and I got a DVD with Top Hat, the old 1930s movie musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was a version which had been dubbed in German – the … Continue reading
Not quite how Disney does it
In my German class we had several writing exercises last week where we wrote in the style of a Grimm’s fairytale. This was in order to practice a particular grammar point that happens to be quite common when telling a … Continue reading
You lucky mushroom!
Chris happened to run across the expression Glückspiltz! the other day. Literally translated, it means “You lucky mushroom”. It’s used like the English expression “You lucky devil”, or “You lucky dog.”
Bedroom Furniture: Revealed!
I know people have been asking me for a while to post some photos of all the furniture that we spent all fall chasing after. Well, just last week we finally got the tables (big and small) that were the … Continue reading
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
In what I always consider an unusual coincidence, my father and Chris’ father were both born on December 14th, which means they share a birthday.