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12 April

Anyone who's obsessed with seeing how many grams of what are in their food should simply come to Germany.  I can't for the life of me figure out the percentages label on the side of the cereal box that I'm eating right now.  Oh well, no biggy for me.  Anyway, I don't know if we have Vitalis cereal in the states or not, but if we don't, we should.  Anne showed it to me last week, and I couldn't help but buy a box today.  Excellent cereal!

So I wrote my first German poem today.  Kind of cool I think.  For it to make sense, I have to explain the context.  In class today, we were given 6 pictures that told a story, and our job was to be in a group and to tell the story.  Jim, Joni, and I did a skit, which Joni did a wonderful job of narrating, and which Jim did a great job of acting out (despite still recovering from his 22nd Birthday last night). As soon as I get my scanner, I will scan the assignment and put it on here, but in the meantime, I'll just tell you about it.  The pictures were of a boy and man eating wienerschnitzel and a wasp/bee lands on the wienerschnitzel.  The boy is going to kill the insect, but the man has the boy stop and takes the wienerschnitzel plate to the window to let the insect go, but instead of flying away, the insect stings the man.  The last frame is back at the table with the man about to kill the bug and the boy telling the man to wait.  Here's the poem that I wrote for the moral of the story.

Das schopfern von Gott ist Heilig,
Immer horen wir solcher stoff
aber man vergisst diese regeln
wann Waspe bisst mann am Kopf

Translation

Everything that God created is holy,
In many books, this we have read.
But this is something you tend to forget
when you get bit by a wasp on the head.

I liked Joni's moral for the day as well.  "Be careful when a wasp lands on your wienerschnitzel."

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