Hallo, ist alles okay?

Hatten Sie ein gutes Wochenende? (Did you have a good weekend?) I do hope so.

Mine was good even though my home country are now out of the Euro 2012 Football Championship. Let’s just say – this penalty shoot-out really isn’t our thing but maybe it’s a good thing… for my marriage that is. My husband and I may have had a bit of a falling out if our respective countries had played each other on Thursday, me thinks. Hurrah… my marriage is safe! (hehehe).

We actually spent our weekend on a Japanese cooking course – courtesy of my husband’s company. The course was in the north of the city at another “language” school. There were about 8 of us so very informal and relaxed. The first half was learning about the language and culture. The second half, we got to make sushi and Tempura and see how to cook Japan’s famous Miso soup.

This was really fun and interesting. Japan has really preserved a lot of their traditional culture and still kept up to date with the West too. However, I really think I have enough new languages and customs running around my head, which is why I can only remember “Arigatoo goza i masu”. I think this means “Thank You very much.” Good one to remember I think.

In my Deutsch course today we learnt a number of new words describing what is in our homes and room names. My favourite is the kitchen as I love cooking and knew a lot of the words already;-)We learnt that many of the names of furniture are actually combined words – so this is where the wonderful “UBER” long words that German is famous for starts, I see.

We all got our tests back and did okay again. We did another one today too on country names, directions and past tense. We were told that we would be getting regular tests every Monday and Thursday from now on… “but this is nothing to worry about” says our teacher…(Nothing to worry about????) Let’s just say my flat is now covered in Post-it notes – on all the remaining surfaces my friends didn’t cover the first time round.

Ciao for now…

oooh… as usual, random thought. We learnt today how to say we have moved  house to. I wonder how long it would take me to persuade my course mate (the one with the really nice house with the river at the end of the garden) to move out of her place so then we can move in…hmmm?!!??!!?