Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:04 PM
oh yippee. itinerary for today is a briefing in the main campus of stuttgart university and then a welcome party specially prepared for the summer university students and their respective host families.
i ate lunch at home first before my host mama fetched me to school. we had asparagus soup, oven-baked maultaschen (which means mouth bag in some german dialect) with tomatoes on top and salad. super-duper delicious! my host parents observed the way i ate and said i looked like a hamster which stores so much food in its mouth before starting to chew. ha.
the welcome party commenced at 6.30pm with an introduction of all the summer school teachers. nus was one class by itself and we saw our teacher for the first time. i made a sketch of her which should be quite well-known by now within my class. haha. it so totally looked like her. we were treated to a big buffet feast complete with outdoor american-style grill. cool. made a few friends and met a couple of german hosts as well. one of the friends i made was simon! and he is only 3 years of age! he is actually xueting's host family's son. there is this hilarious story linking simon, his mum and my host mama. please skip this part if you are just intending to see the pictures and read on if you want to know the story!
ok here goes: the 2 main characters of the story are Sabine Grutschnig (Simon's mum) and Sabine Michel (the 60-year old-looking lady who was partly responsible for organising and matching up host families with summer students). after the welcome party, i told my host mama that i made a very good new friend called simon. i thought that the various hosts should probably know each other so i went on further to ask her whether she knew a lady called Sabine MICHEL. my host mama said she knew her of course. and i replied her, 'yaya! she is simon's mum!' my host mama gave me a weird look and said nothing more. the next day, i felt that something was amiss so when i met xueting in school, i asked her what her host mama's surname was. she told me it was 'GRUTSCHNIG'. #*$@(*$!@(#@*$*#&!!!!!! oh nooooooo.... i had mixed the names up! wth! i went home quickly to clear this misunderstanding. and my host mama burst out laughing. She said, 'OH NOW i understand! i was very puzzled because Sabine Michel is not even married she is already nearing 60 and how in the world or WHEN in the world did she have a 3-year-old son called Simon!??!?!' wahahhaaha. omg. how could i be so blur. o.O
simon, his dad and me!
briefing in the LT
the graffiti on my table. duck kills duck. hmm interesting.
look ma! 2 pairs of arms!
the tram station outside my school.
graffiti just outside my school building. cool stuff.
the cheap bakery round the corner where we frequent during school breaks. there's really a wide range of breads. the biggest bread is like bigger than your face.
stuttgart turmforum 21. we went up the mercedes benz tower! leeseefei and me here! and i've got strands of hair tickling my nostrils. hee.
me = schlecker which sounds like SLACKER which is true of my character. HA.
ooh i like this. so creative. i hope you can see more than just the SUGAR word.
main shopping street with the castle on the left and king's building
(koennigsbau) on the right! and some random white umbrellas along the way.
i love this photo. look at the how this cloud actually 'shines' onto the angel statue. just look.. LOOK. haha. nice.
love the hairstyle dude. was actually trying to take the busker at the back when this man walked unknowingly into my picture. i thought the hairstyle was 'cool' so i decided to keep the picture and make him famous here. hmm. maybe should send this to david gan.
the math a level tys.
guess who!
we could only hang out at the children's books section and read THIS. and we still could not understand everything :x
the video monitoring sign amused me. cock-eye!
the packet drinks look like big lego blocks of volume 0.5L.
ferrero rocher garden edition! ok obviously the chocs don't grow in the garden. it's just something like a summer edition. flavours include lemon and strawberry. yum
these two pigeons kept playing catching at the train station. good entertainment.
noodle with erm meat. lunch after school at alfresco cafe. we took quite a long time to figure out where our food was coming from because there were no visible restaurants in sight! hmm.. maybe from the dustbin somewhere.
champinon salad. yum.
my camera on sale! wow. it's more expensive here.
spiderman came to my rescue! i forgot what dangerous situation i was in. oh. i thought i saw dr. octo somewhere.
haha.no comment.
my house from the outside!
let’s doodle
