I'm Going to Pop You One in the Chops

Since the Sunday that Stephanie started her job, our weeks have become the same. Steph is picked up by her family at 4pm and I start my studies. At 10, Steph comes home and we spend a good few hours watching tv or cleaning up the apartment. As a result, we sleep in longer to account for the late hours we stay up at night. During the day, before Steph's work, I like to watch The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother auf Deutsch. It is interesting...even if I don't understand: The voices are much less annoying. Very soap opera-ish. My biggest fear is learning German via Big Bang Theory and end up speaking like Sheldon Cooper ;) Stephanie get Sunday and Monday off and so we took advantage of the spare time. It is too bad that she doesn't get another week day off because there is absolutely nothing to do on Sundays. So we decided to spend the day resting in bed and catching up on the season finales we are missing. Monday, we went out into the German world! Steph wanted to get her eyebrows done and so we headed over to Senzera: Bodylicious waxing and booked an appointment. Steph also needed to replenish her M.A.C supplies so we headed over to the only M.A.C store in Düsseldorf. We walked in and the Redhead-Witch came over to help us. She didn't speak much English so Steph kindly told her that she knew what she wanted. She headed over to the shelves with products and Redhead Witch yelled at her to get away from there and that the sample products where over on the other table. After a little confusion, Steph just told her what number she needed...and of course they were out. Young Asian Worker told us that there was a M.A.C counter in Altstadt in one of the stores. Steph was very frustrated that "All the Germans were as pasty pale as I am and take all the good foundation". So we wandered across town to try there. Luckily, they had the exact one. Afterwards, Steph needed to buy a bus pass and so we stopped in the subway station to buy one. Oddly enough, they didn't take Visa, only cash...even though they had a visa/debit machine. So we had to run over to the cash machine. After, we wanted to bask in the sun down by the Rhein. I found a German site that explains some of the German grammar and one of the sentences was "I am going to pop you one in the chops" which we repeated over and over. As we were walking, there were two Germans men walking behind us. They were walking behind us for about ten minutes and nine of those minutes we were talking about "popping one in the chops". I would like to pause for a second and try to figure out what was going on in their brains: They have two ENGLISH speaking females walking in front of them, and so they must think of the most interesting/sexy thing they could say in a second language to attract their attention. One of the German men (the sexy one by the way) came up with this one-liner: "Hey girls! Where's the sun?". We turned around and turned into Japanese School Girls and fell into a fit of giggles. His friend made fun of our laugh and that was the end of that. We repeated that wonderful line all day and tried to figure out how he thought that was a good pick up line. Got to give the man credit for trying. So we sat for a while and then we walked across town for Steph to get her eyebrows waxed. She always enjoys trying to talk to the German ladies because their English is very limited. We walked over to World Coffee but it was closing, we hadn't realized it has gotten so late. So we headed to the grocery store before it closed. I have discovered that all cheese is very cheap in Germany. I bought quite a bit of Edam cheese for 59 cents. Very surprising! So we bought a bunch of fruit and restocked our cupboard. We had currywurst again for dinner and then Grey's Anatomy to finish off the night. Now it is Tuesday, the beginning of our week, and so we are starting our cycle again. Unfortunately, we have discovered our apartment has an ant infestation. They are crawling through the grating in the bathroom and they crawl under the floor. We have discovered ant repellent and so I think our landlord knew about this problem before...Hmm