Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sehr Gut!

wednesday, october 26
8:54am
                Gooooood morning, sunshines! Guess who comes home in two days? I’ll give you a hint: he wears glasses and his name is Marc. And two days, that’s no time at all! If you got hit by a truck and went into a coma but you woke up after two days, some of your extended family wouldn’t even be at your bedside yet! Because two days is not enough time for travelling to pay your last respects to someone in a coma!
                What I am trying to say is that Marc will be here in just a few blinks of an eye.


8:59am
                No offense to the coma patients who can’t blink their eyes because they are in a coma.


9:05am
                Oh goody, the German exchange girls are here. Every year about ten girls come over from Germany, all bundled up in their jackets and scarves, trying to learn the ways of the world from us Amerikaners. Usually what happens though is they sit in the back of the class, looking meek, and they say a few words in Deutsch once in a while.


9:15am
                Hahaha, one German girl just had her first bite of peanut-butter and jelly, and she hates it! That’s hilarious.


9:17am
                I know a couple German phrases myself. We’ve had a German boy in our Environmental Science class all year, and he’s taught us a few good sayings, like “Ich bin so geil jetzt“, which means “I’m so horny right now”.
Additionally, I can say “rainbow” (Reinderbogen) and “oxtail soup” (Ochsenschwanzsuppe).


two seconds later
                I just had a revelation.
  German is a joke language, isn’t it?


later
12:45pm
               In other news, I have begun to put on my prettiness illusion for when Marc comes home. My beauty regimen is quite rigorous—lots of face-scrubbing and nail-exfoliating. I’ve also been leaving conditioner in my hair when I go to bed so I can have silky locks. And don’t even get me started on the two tons of powder my face needs daily. I’m trying to build up my sensitive skin’s tolerance to makeup so I can go all-out when Marc comes home.
                Needless to say, it’s quite a lot of work to trick people into thinking you’re pretty.


12:52pm
                Luckily for me, my face has cooperated by giving me four ENOURMOUS zits on my chin. Thanks, body! That was cool of you!
                To make matters worse, I’ve misplaced my Boing! Industrial Strength Concealer In Beige. Right when I need an industry to hide my imperfections! What are the chances, I ask you.


12:55pm
                AND I HAVE A COLD! I’ve suddenly got the sniffles like nobody’s business. I’ve been wiping my nose so much that I’ve got little peely skins peeling away from my nostrils. Ad I soud like dis.




1:01pm
                Aww, Hendrick the German boy from Environmental Science is super excited about the exchange girls. I think they do things differently in Germany though because Hendrick is very honest about his feelings. Case in point: “You know German girls are ugly, but I want to meet them anyway.”


1:03pm
                He’s also got this box of Oreos that he won in a bet. Because he is German, he feels guilty about taking the whole box. Oh, now he’s talking.
                “I had a bet with this girl, we bet one cookie and she gave me the whole pack… I have to return them, it does not feel right. I know she wants me but I am not a slut.”
                Clearly he is a morally upstanding citizen. Germany must be proud to have him.


1:07pm
                Me and my American classmates aren’t quite as honorable though. We convinced Hendrick to give us the cookies.


later
3:35pm
                Oh, dear Shiva. This kid just came up to me in the hallway and said, “I’ve seen you around and I just had to meet you. What’s your name?”
                “I’b Elaid.”
                “Elaid?”
                “Doh, Elaid.”
                “Wow, nice to meet you, Elaid! I love your name, that’s so exotic.”


3:38pm
                If Shiva the Destroyer really cared about me, he’d destroy my mucus. Please, Shivvy? Please?


two seconds later
                Mucus is still here. I suspect that Shiva the Destroyer is a false god.

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