In my life I have met at least 8 Germans, apart from that time I went to Germany and was surrounded by them. From these 8 Germans 3 of which I knew from my gap year to palestine, and 5 of which have been recent couch suffers I have put together these statistics:
100% of Germans speek brilliant english.
100% of germans are nice people.
87.5% of Germans are female.
100% of germans would not rob an English stranger when given the chance.
25% of Germans have a dislike of a food that I believe is essential to your diet ie cheese, pasta or meat
100% of germans like travelling.
at least 37.5% of Germans don't know how to set a burglar alarm.
37.5% of Germans have lived in Beit Jala (a suburb of bethlehem)
62.5% of Germans have ridden the 86 bus down Smithdown road.
25% of Germans do not think curtains are necessary.
at least 25% of Germans prefere Liverpool to Manchester.
62.5 % of Germans have been to Scotland.
25% of Germans have been to the outer Hebrides in April (and enjoyed nice weather there!)
37.5% of Germans have been to the wirral, although a third of those did it by accidentally getting on the wrong bus.
12.5 % of Germans have shared a t-shirt with me. As in we both wore it at the same time.
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Thursday 13 June 2013
Sick Trip Party
Sick
Today was probably the most pleasant experience I've ever had of being sick. (except possibly milky baby sick times) Obviously it wasn't pleasant, being sick never is, but if I had to relive one of my being sick experiences again it would be today's. I was at work teaching willow sculpture to year 5 and it was the beginning of lunch but children were still working on their sculptures, I felt fine until about 5 minutes leading up to it. I dismissed the class, was sick in the staff toilet and then felt almost totally fine, ate some lunch and carried on with my day.
That's totally the way to do it when you're self employed. You've got to just man up and get on with it. I decided there's no point going home, if I was going to be sick again I might as well do it in school rather than in my car while driving home. Last time I told myself to man up was when I was getting into and extremely hot bath and I couldn't be bothered to put anymore cold water in. Dan said 'if anything I needed to woman up' when I asked what he meant by that he say 'you should dither more, and go out for cups of tea and natter more' I'm probably a bit too decisive and focused. I'll work on that...or maybe I won't ,who knows maybe I'll invite a friend out for cupper and we can have a good old natter about the whole thing and not really come to any conclusions.
Trip
In other news our trip plans are coming together we now have our whole trip planned out day by day, we have panniers for our bikes and geeky T-shirts that match the colours of our bikes. You should totally follow us in twitter we have invented our own hash tag: #2q8
Here is an embarrassing picture of us next to our foldy bikes wearing our T-shirts:
I ordered mine too big by accident because I got confused by american sizes, but vista print are going to send me a new smaller one for free because I complained. I'm pretty good at complaining.... I got a free second ice cream from sefton park at the weekend because I complained that my first one was horrible.
Party
If you read my previous blog I mentioned Joe Fred's no electriciy party was coming up. It was one of the best parties I've ever been to. I'd post a photo but no cameras were allowed. I sculpted this snail at the party though:
I made this while there was a fire on one side of me and Alex playing the cello on the other side of me. From a health and saftey point of view it was one of the most dangerous parties I'd ever been to, with two slightly out of control fires, alcohol, hammers and chissels, lots of people in a very tight space, and no lights. Also if things did get out of hand no one would be able to phone the fire brigade, because phones were banned. Oh well - we all know that as risk increases fun increases up until that critcal injury/ death point of course then fun dramatically decreases. Unless you're in heaven jumping into chocolate waterfalls and stuff.
Today was probably the most pleasant experience I've ever had of being sick. (except possibly milky baby sick times) Obviously it wasn't pleasant, being sick never is, but if I had to relive one of my being sick experiences again it would be today's. I was at work teaching willow sculpture to year 5 and it was the beginning of lunch but children were still working on their sculptures, I felt fine until about 5 minutes leading up to it. I dismissed the class, was sick in the staff toilet and then felt almost totally fine, ate some lunch and carried on with my day.
That's totally the way to do it when you're self employed. You've got to just man up and get on with it. I decided there's no point going home, if I was going to be sick again I might as well do it in school rather than in my car while driving home. Last time I told myself to man up was when I was getting into and extremely hot bath and I couldn't be bothered to put anymore cold water in. Dan said 'if anything I needed to woman up' when I asked what he meant by that he say 'you should dither more, and go out for cups of tea and natter more' I'm probably a bit too decisive and focused. I'll work on that...or maybe I won't ,who knows maybe I'll invite a friend out for cupper and we can have a good old natter about the whole thing and not really come to any conclusions.
Trip
In other news our trip plans are coming together we now have our whole trip planned out day by day, we have panniers for our bikes and geeky T-shirts that match the colours of our bikes. You should totally follow us in twitter we have invented our own hash tag: #2q8
Here is an embarrassing picture of us next to our foldy bikes wearing our T-shirts:
I ordered mine too big by accident because I got confused by american sizes, but vista print are going to send me a new smaller one for free because I complained. I'm pretty good at complaining.... I got a free second ice cream from sefton park at the weekend because I complained that my first one was horrible.
Party
If you read my previous blog I mentioned Joe Fred's no electriciy party was coming up. It was one of the best parties I've ever been to. I'd post a photo but no cameras were allowed. I sculpted this snail at the party though:
I made this while there was a fire on one side of me and Alex playing the cello on the other side of me. From a health and saftey point of view it was one of the most dangerous parties I'd ever been to, with two slightly out of control fires, alcohol, hammers and chissels, lots of people in a very tight space, and no lights. Also if things did get out of hand no one would be able to phone the fire brigade, because phones were banned. Oh well - we all know that as risk increases fun increases up until that critcal injury/ death point of course then fun dramatically decreases. Unless you're in heaven jumping into chocolate waterfalls and stuff.
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