Yippee-the furniture comes tomorrow, the furniture comes tomorrow! I don't consider myself to be terribly materialistic but sleeping on the air mattress in a nearly 100 year old house as winter comes, sucks. Between the cat deciding I am a warm spot at 2am or the plastic in the mattress creaking against the wood floor whenever one of us moves, I will be quite ready to sleep in my own bed tomorrow night.
All and all things are going well I think. Well in the sense that I can't interact with anyone other than a German toddler since that is the limit of my vocabulary at this point. We've met a few interesting people in the last week and managed to socialize a little which always helps reduce the tension of big changes.
We have also discovered that for many items, it is cheaper to buy it in the German grocery stores rather than buy it at the "supposedly-cheaper" commissary on base. Eis Kaffee is my new favorite thing-milk with espresso all pre-made in a cartoon. I will drink it by the liter each day until I die. That and the ultra cheap generic knock-off of Bailey's Irish Creme which even with a crappy exchange rate only costs $6 a bottle. I bought a bottle this afternoon from the shelf next to the display of calendars of topless women at the supermarket (socially acceptable here which is strange b/c being from the US you don't expect it). I decided that even though it was an opportunity for Kelly and I to learn the months in German, it would be better to wait for that lesson in Rosetta Stone.
10:30 pm here-calling it a night and heading back to the air mattress.
Cheers-
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