Thursday August 16th, 2oo7

Thursday August 16th, 2007
10:33pm Hage, Germany Time
2:33pm Saskatoon Time

Today we lazed around the house until almost 2pm. It was pouring rain so hard outside, it felt like we were being attacked. I bought a Sudoku book for a Euro the other day, and now the entire house is hooked. Dad was so concentrated, it was his fault we didn’t leave until 2. We drove to Aurich to check out their shopping. We went to the biggest mall in the city, and it was PATHETIC. It had one clothing store that was for children. Then it had a Walmart Type store, some engraving stores, bakeries, a hair salon, a fitness center, and a movie theatre. There were Harry Potter movie posters in German, so mom asked it we could have one, and they gave us 2 posters and I fell in looooove. Lovelovelove. So we gave up on the mall. Europe is different than Canada in the way that it still has lots of small, family owned businesses everywhere instead of malls, while Canada’s small local businesses have been driven out by big American companies (I learned this all in Marketing). We drove along the coast and looked at a neat harbour. We came home all our laundry was washed and folded! Thanks Kathi! We repacked our bags because we decided to leave tomorrow morning, instead of leaving tomorrow at midnight. Its going to be a BRUTAL day. We had supper, then played cards. We went downstairs and got a picture of Kathi and Gerhart. THEY ARE SO CUTE!! I just wanted to adopt Kathi and take her home with me. I think their story is that Kathi’s husband died of cancer, and Gerhart’s wife died of some sort of cancer as well, and then when the German $ was turned into Euros, they lost everything and their pensions were cut in half because the German $ wasn’t worth anything anymore. So now they live together. I don’t know if they’re “together” because they have separate rooms, but he called her “freau“, which means wife I think. Anyways, they are so cute, but they are pathetic at English. Poor dad got a tour of the cellar downstairs with Gerhart, and dad had no clue what he was talking about. Their house is freaking massive though, with lots of windows, and all brick, and so NEAT (as in clean). I want it. Anyways, bedtime soon. Tomorrow is going to suuUuuUuuuuuuUuuck!!