Eat breakfast with your enemies, lunch with your friends, and give away your dinner.
My temporary Ukranian roomate told me this while feeding me chocolate, cheese, crackers and fruit for breakfast this morning…
Eat breakfast with your enemies, lunch with your friends, and give away your dinner.
My temporary Ukranian roomate told me this while feeding me chocolate, cheese, crackers and fruit for breakfast this morning…
I went to the Italian consulate in Frankfurt yesterday then hopped on the bus to Hahn. The consulate was cool and aside from the angry italians trying to get in (through a metal detector and only one family at a time!!!) the highlight was probably that Lucio was there as well. He’s a Brazilian footballer who is transferring from Bayern-Munich to Inter-Milan. I guess he needs a visa as well to get into the country. Ah visas…the great equalizer.
I think that 2,0 has left the country. He will be missed. He did give us lots of stuff. Now I’m reading his books, and we have a drill and vacuum. Good luck with P.h.d. and North Carolina.
Come back soon!
So after a 9 year absence I’ve gone back to the Dr. He referred me to 3 other doctors for various ailments. Which means I’ve had a boatload of appointments lately. I think I made one Dr’s day today. He wants to cut. Not anytime soon dude! Anyways the specialist Dr. again referred me to another Dr.I have another appointment tomorrow (1 days notice).
I’m quite impressed with the Deutsch healthcare system. It’s very good. The Dr’s apparently get their “Dr. schooling” in English, so having me as a patient no problem for them. They have mostly been pleasant to deal with and the system seems to be working well.
…and since it’s such a big issue in the states – I pay about 14% for my health care here. I’ve no idea if the company also pitches in (I kind of doubt it), but coverage is mandatory and automatic when you start a job (or if you don’t have a job). Same in Italy. No editorializing to be found from me today…I feel like I should, but I smell food so I don’t have the strength to waste writing…
Finally hitting the Italian consulate on Wednesday to get a work permit put into my passport. Immediately after I’ll be off to Italy in the afternoon. Coming back the following Tuesday to again immediately head off to somewhere in the Netherlands for a weekend sailing trip. Looking forward to this. I’ve never been proper sailing, so this will be good.
I’ve never been a fan of american baseball. I always refer to it as an “East Coast Game”. In my own head I’m making fun of baseball and old people who live on the east coast at the same time, but after watching test cricket I have to say baseball is the greatest game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…or at least the greatest game that america bastardized from the brits.
So we currently have England and Australia playing “The Ashes”. Which is a cricket test match that apparently goes for 5 straight days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ashes
it’s even more boring than this entry… 🙂
Matt: I was getting tired of looking at your last entry.
Mom: Where are you and where are you writing your blog? What’s up with not writing?
Julia: Your blog is boring. Insult somebody.
I guess the big triathlon is the european championship or something. I think if they put the swimming part at the end I would be much more inclined to be interested. If there was a chance that someone was going to cramp up and drown (or at least need a dramatic rescue) it would be more exciting.
It’s been very very hot and humid all week. Thunderstorms occur pretty much every day which cools things down for about 2 and half minutes, then it’s back to just being sticky again. This much humidity is not a good recipe for healthy sleeping.
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