Tegut

I couldn’t walk home from the grocery store in Grapevine even if I really wanted to. If the distance didn’t exhaust me completely, the atmospheric Satan known as “Summer in Texas” would claim me as its victim (and probably cook whatever food I’d bought!) So there’s something about Marburg that I know I’ll miss. Ok, I guess now would be the right time to say that I ended up taking the bus home anyways…but not every time! Sometimes I walk. Today, it just happens to be in the low 50’s…very windy…and rainy. So why walk?

The grocery store here is a wild animal. I couldn’t find salt today. Salt! The very basic, foundational ingredient in worldwide cuisine! Salz, auf Deutsch (“auf Deutsch” means “in German”). Oh, they had varieties of salt: salt for chicken, salt for vegetables, salt for herbs, salt for tomato and mozzarella salad. I just wanted plain, regular salt. The epicurean in me really wanted to buy the Fleur de Sel for 2.95€, but I thought that was extravagant for a poor student in a dorm. I found something called Tafelsalt and thought, Table salt? No, Table ist Tisch auf Deutsch…Tafel means “blackboard”. So I didn’t get it. I got the tomato and mozzarella stuff. We’ll see how it goes. The ratio of non-beer-buying customers to beer-buying customers is another thing; it is still strange to walk through the student union at noon-thirty and see beer bottles on most of the tables…

I can’t possibly get tired of the view form my dorm window ( I just looked up, and had to write something about it). I’m at an impasse. I can’t decide whether to a. clean my room, b. eat something, c. study German, or d. write a paper. I think, perhaps, I should work backwards, sound good? Sometimes, when I’m by myself and there’s noone around on this end of the hall, it’s hard to motivate myself to do anything, which is why I’m still writing on this thing instead of doing any actual work! I think I try to convince myself that it is just as important to blog as it is to do my work….hmmm…

So I’ll get to work. Danke for reading this.

-BW