Week 4 (Feb 9-13)

Another week has passed in Horb. Last Sunday I spent the whole day here at the Goldener-Adler, working on homework, updating this here blog, and sort of just relaxing. 

The theme this week in school was Health/Gesundheit and Sickness/Krankenheit. We learned lots of new vocab about it, and talked about different methods of staying healthy, and methods for treating specific illnesses. 

Probably the most embarrassing part of the week (for me anyway) was during class one day when we were doing a small exercise where we had a word box and we needed to fill in the blanks. I decided to work ahead, cause I'm just so smart and all, and I get to the last question for one of the exercises. The sentence was about a car accident, which in German is an Auto-unfall. I looked in the word box and saw the word "Durchfall" and I thought, "Well I'm not sure what it means, but it sounds like it would fit!" So I hastily write it in the blank, and wait for everyone to catch up. I decided to check my answers, so I borrow Elisabeth's (who was sitting next to me) dictionary, and looked up the word. That's when I started giggling uncontrollably.

Durchfall, doesn't necessarily have anything to do with auto accidents.

Because it means Diarrhea...

And then of course I had to explain why I was laughing. Which lead into a long conversation about "durchfall" and it's opposite "Verstöpfung" (constipation) Including the cures and treatments for both.

I think I'll just stay with the group from now on during class.

The other exciting thing from this week, was that for the first time, we woke up to snow on the ground. 

 

It never lasted for the whole day, the sun always came out and melted it away. But it really is very pretty to see this little village dusted with snow. It's slowly getting colder here, like Michigan, February is the coldest month. So we've been bundling up a little extra.

The excursion this weekend is to a place called "Triburg" proud owner of both the largest waterfall in Germany and the largest functioning Cuckoo Clock in the world.

Also. Here's a couple of pictures I nabbed from Joe, of me with weird animal statues in München.

(Giant Fish eating my arm)

(Dancing with the Lob-Stars. I know. I'm witty)