Another Sunday In Deutschland

Yet again, another lazy Sunday in Deutschland. I am starting to think that perhaps these Germans have the right idea. You have a day where you are forced to stay home and do absolutely nothing. If Stephanie and I worked all week and shopped on Saturdays, it might be really nice to have this but this, however, is not the case. As we have pretty relaxed days of shopping and site-seeing, our weeks do not demand a day of rest. In any case, we stayed in our pajamas all day and watched more Grey's Anatomy. I have discovered German flashcards on my new Learning German site and so we also spent a good portion of the day doing those. It is really good as they show you the word and then only speak the word and then ask you to spell it out. Kind of like a Rosetta Stone. It is really excellent. Trying our hardest to "fit in" in the German culture, we decided to buy Beck's...big mistake! We had bought one regular and one gold one. It was the worst beer I have ever tasted (not that I have tried many before) and so we are too afraid to open up the other bottle we bought. Good thing beer is cheap here. We decided to create a profile on an Au Pair website to get our foot in the door for more jobs. We set me up with a profile first and so we spent a good hour doing that. An hour or so after the profile was set up, I received a call from a woman in Duisburg, a neighboring city, and so I set up an appointment with her for later in the week. Feeling very excited about the potential job, we had a celebratory Chili Vodka shot which we almost spit out. Afterward, we decided to stretch our legs a little bit and walk around our neighborhood. There isn't much to see as it is mostly residential. Walks are much more enjoyable here than in Berlin as the weather is much warmer. I stopped at the corner store (miraculously open) and picked up some juice. I tried to do the whole thing in German and succeeded but at the end, the man asked me if I was from Holland. My roots must be shining through...in my German? I'm not too sure whether it is better to have your accent, when speaking German, be from another European country or North America. Once home, we threw on another episode and then I received another call from another family who is interested in me. It was a very exciting day. Two job offers in one day! Who could resist that? Over all, it was a very good Sunday in Deutschland.