Saumagen

In an attempt to improve my german skills I've decided I'm going to give up my english for a week. This means a whole week no speaking the ol' aussie speaky. Thinking, only in german. Reading only in german (which is a shame cause I'm totally into Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy at the moment, like I'm right in there....). And the biggest blow, only typing and writing in german, this is more suck than the others cause my main contact with Australia is through friendface and emails, and my german writing skills are soo incredibly bad. I wrote a german email to my grandmother the other day and asked my younger cousin to proof read it and help me out, he only ended up having time to help with one paragraph, but he laughed out loud like a gazillion times. 

However I figure if I'm going to be here for a while and if I want to make friends with people etc than my german just has to get better, its so frustrating having to talk so slow and not being able to simply say what it is that I want to say or mean. Especially when words is all you have!! I'm not a baby, I cant start squeeling or crying if I want to be fed or go to the toilet or whatever. I have to use my big girl words.

I was actually planning on starting this tomorrow, seeing as its a Monday, and Monday's are always a good place to start these kind of things.....especially since I only came up with the idea today, but thinking about it now, and the people it would mean to cut off. Maybe, I figure its a better idea to start this next week as to give my peeps a bit of a heads up! And a chance to say all the things that need to be said before I become a mute. I dont know what exactly will be so important to say, but if my friend told me they would be out of contact for a week suddenly out of the blue like this I'm pretty sure I'd be having a heavy heart. SO. DON'T. STRESS! I'll give ya a call.

In other news I just came back from being invited round to dinner in Blunk. Tonight on the menu was a traditional german speciality (from down south anyway) Saumagen which translates to sow's stomach. Essentially it's something similar to haggis, as in the principle is the same-stuffing stomachs. However saumagen uses pig's meat, vegetables (potato) and spices etc, is then stuffed into the stomach and can be either boiled or then sliced and fried or baked. We ate it baked and with two kinds of sauerkaut the normal kind and another kind though I'm not sure how to explain that one. 
Anyway it didn't even look unappetising and tasted something rather like delicious. Even though I'm not a fussy eater and pretty much eat anything (except aaaawful disgusting blueberries) I'm still unsure if I would give Haggis a go. Its seems so.... what is the right word? 
Blergh! I think pretty much sums it up. Anyway who knows if I will even ever have to look a serve of haggis in the eyes?

Bed time, I start my praktikum tomorrow morning! EXCITING!!!!
Love T.