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IN(Look into these eyes...I’m HUGE in Berlin.)
She emailed me a couple of weeks ago with a link to her blog which I plugged into my trusty translator. It’s hilarious-proof that you can’t trust an automated machine to translate linguistic nuances. I tried to remember exactly what the heck I could have been talking about. (Do you have to be important to be misquoted?) Since this was before my Ulpan even began, I have no idea who are the “two looking unbelievably good Brazilians.”
Just go here and plug in this.
Select “German to English” and have fun. Anyone know what a mad contact stock exchange is?
By the way, the highlight of the evening was when I asked her if she knew who Dirk Nowitzki was (which of course she did). That made for a fun few minutes of chatting.
On a completely unrelated note, I have to tell you something but you have to promise not to tell my roommate that I told you. She was telling me what to do the other day, to the effect of “you were sick last week so I cleaned by myself, now you’re going to clean”. She then proceeded to instruct me how one is to clean the apartment (I was under the impression that I knew already. Apparently not...check THIS out...) She takes the toilet brush, sticks it in the toilet, scrubs, THEN USES THE SAME TOILET BRUSH TO CLEAN THE SINK. Umm...did I dream that? I asked two of my friends if that’s normal here. This is basically how they answered.
“She did WHAT?”
She of course thinks I’m the idiot foreigner.
I promised my friend/boss Michal A. that I would say that she was disgusted and that Israelis do NOT do this. I can’t wait to learn what “they don’t do” next.
Just go here and plug in this.
Select “German to English” and have fun. Anyone know what a mad contact stock exchange is?
By the way, the highlight of the evening was when I asked her if she knew who Dirk Nowitzki was (which of course she did). That made for a fun few minutes of chatting.
On a completely unrelated note, I have to tell you something but you have to promise not to tell my roommate that I told you. She was telling me what to do the other day, to the effect of “you were sick last week so I cleaned by myself, now you’re going to clean”. She then proceeded to instruct me how one is to clean the apartment (I was under the impression that I knew already. Apparently not...check THIS out...) She takes the toilet brush, sticks it in the toilet, scrubs, THEN USES THE SAME TOILET BRUSH TO CLEAN THE SINK. Umm...did I dream that? I asked two of my friends if that’s normal here. This is basically how they answered.
“She did WHAT?”She of course thinks I’m the idiot foreigner.
I promised my friend/boss Michal A. that I would say that she was disgusted and that Israelis do NOT do this. I can’t wait to learn what “they don’t do” next.
4 comments:
This is too gross to even imagine. It is giving me shivers. Ugh. I'm glad to know that this girl is nice because something has to compensate....
I'm crying that's so funny!
What! She didn't get the bathtub with it too? And she calls herself an Israeli. Please.
We finally found an honest and available, albeit very slow, cleaner. When I saw her doing that, I knew I had to switch cleaners. I actually PAID for someone to stick my toilet bowl scrubber in my sink.
YUCK!!!!!
(and I wondered why I kept getting so sick....)
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