What's up wit dat?

Okay, so… What happens in early March that makes it so that everyone conceives then?  What am I talking about?  Today is Nicole’s birthday!!  Happy Birthday Nicole!!  The good part about this one is that she’s here, so I don’t actually miss out on it!  

Today is St. Nicolas Day.  I’m a little pissed because I screwed it up.  I had heard all about how, if you put you put your shoes in front of your door, St. Nicolas will come around and fill them with treats (unless you’ve been bad, then he fills them with coal), but I didn’t know if you do that on the night of the fifth to the sixth, or the sixth to the seventh?  I guess the question is, if the sixth is St. Nicolas Day, are you celebrating the fact that he came, or the fact that he will come?  Yeah, they celebrate the fact that he came.  So I didn’t put out my shoes and they didn’t get filled by the people in the house who were acting as Nicolas.  But Nicole is so sweet that she came to fill my shoes, and since I didn’t leave any, she left her own shoe and filled it.  That’s amazing. Especially on her birthday!

Something pretty funny just happened to me.  I went out to get a donair.  First of all, when I got there the lady was like, “The usual?”  That is so freakin’ hilarious!!  I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere where they knew my “usual.”  Awesome.  So I ate and left and as I was on the way home a car pulled over onto the sidewalk in front of me.  Really they do this all the time, so that wasn’t the issue, and it wasn’t that I was freaked out by it, either.  He was pretty far up and I was just kind of laughing about how funny Germans are but as I passed by he got out of the car with a map and called me over.  And I’m thinking like, “Great, I don’t have a clue where anything in this city is, and he’s about to ask me for directions!”  

The absolute truth of the matter is that I know about 10 streets in this whole city by name.  There are others, but I don’t really know them, or how to get there – especially not by car.  So, I am just dreading what this guy is going to say to me because I know I won’t be able to help.  Well, he comes up and asks me if I know how to get to Schellingstraβe.  That’s one of the streets I know!!  Can you believe that??!!  I even looked at the map to make sure that there isn’t two Schellingstraβes.  Nope!!  So I was able to give him directions.  My German wasn’t great, but it was at least understandable enough that I saw that he turned correctly at the first street I told him to turn at, so I’m satisfied.  I got him on the right track; if he had to pull over somewhere else and ask for more directions, that’s not my problem.  The other funny part of the situation was that the lady at the donair place has started putting so many onions on my donairs.  Holy crap!  I think she put on an entire half onion today.  Soon she’s just going to start serving me an entire onion on the side and I can eat it like an apple as I go along.  So I was almost shooting flames as I was talking this guy.  Oh, well, that’s what he gets for stopping someone who has just walked out of a donair shop.

I got another Kinder Surprise egg in my advent’s calendar today.  It’s a little elf stamp.  He’s cute, I’m satisfied; and I didn’t have to put it entirely together, but I had to put his head on his body, which is better than getting a toy that requires no assembly at all.  I’m kind of upset, though, I was hoping to get some Schoko-bons.  Ugh.  Time to get ready to go to class.