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[emmuzka]

Internet, oh internet, how I love thee. My host in Germany now has a net :) Well, I have been scrolling my f-list with my mobile phone so far (and I really don't want to see the data transfer bill on that..), but now I have a real browser! With pictures enabled! and a keyboard to go with it!

So, Germany.
- Hardly anyone speaks English. (And why should they, anyway? Everything will be dubbed and they have their own internet services like eBay.)
- Houses are cheap but housing expenses are sky high. Energy and water cost ALOT, as well as waste disposal, so people end up burning their garbage and hoard rain water. And being really anal with their garbage cans. And with all this energy consciousness, you still can't do well with only one car :/
- All the insects in here are, like, on steroids. And I hate all insects bigger than a common house fly! And every time after spending time in the garden, there will be a tick check! I didn't know what did they looked like, so my host was like, "I will show you if I'll find one in my kids. Oh, here is one!" Nyaagghh!
- Combining the odd European tap water and my host taste on cheap shampoos, after two weeks I could probably put my hair on treads without any aid.

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[breny.livejournal.com]

Doesn't sound very comfortable in Germany. Do you speak German?

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I don't know the language at all! I'm visiting my sister, who moved in Germany three months ago. She didn't know the language at all and was pretty dependent on her husband. Now she manages in basic things.

It was hilarious when in store I asked if the saleswoman knew any English and the sale personnel were like, "Oh no! Who speaks english?! you! you speak at lest some! Take her!", in German, and they didn't understand that of course I could *guess* from their body language what they were approximately saying ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I think you mean dreads...

Eww re: the insects though.

[arye-sarin.livejournal.com]

Hardly anyone speaks English. (And why should they, anyway? Everything will be dubbed and they have their own internet services like eBay.)

I noticed the same while being there some years ago. Even the young people speak French or some other language if they do at all, but not English. Fortuntaly I knew the basics while being there, so it wasn't a big problem. And also in restaurants the waiters weren't as bad with their language skills as others.

All the insects in here are, like, on steroids.

Yep. I still shiver with fear. Those "lukit" were three times the size of the ones here in Finland and they were in every bahtroom hanging from the ceiling. Yuck!

But otherwise I loved Germany. Despite all the little bad things, I want to go there again. And again. Great foodshops, landscapes, historical sights, museums, old castles etc.

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

We have those spiders (daddy-long-legs?) in here! And a lot of them. And other spiders too. I have a pet spider, who made a net inches from our main entrance. She is big and black, and I call her Shelob. She is so beautifull when she is waiting for her prey.

[arye-sarin.livejournal.com]

You have a pet spider? Strange woman. I am afraid of spiders almost as much as childbirth. Provided they invade my house or garden. I just ...can't describe the feeling, but I go nearly hysterical when I see a spider in our bedroom. Fortunately our current flat doesn't have them often (only 2 a year, about) but I used to live my childhood in old wooden house and you can only guess how filled with spiders it was. Espcially during summer the porch outside was filled with these daddy-long-legs despite my continuos attempts to slaughter them to extinction with shoe or long broomstick.

I am not visiting you until your house is poisoned with napalm or you move. ; P
I have been to a german appartment that didn't have creepy crawlies so I know it's possible!