Exerpts from my Germany blog from 2006

"....And if you want regular water, too effing bad. Anytime you ask for water, you're going to get this godawful mineral water. I even asked for regular water at the bowling alley, which is Stillewasser in German, and they didn't have any. They didn't have any. They didn't have any water."

"So Germany was finally eliminated from the World Cup. These soccer, 'Fußbol' fans are effing crazy. The superbowl is nothing compared to this public viewing of the Italy-Deuschland game. Anyway... soccer blows so I'm not going to tell you about it. Ozan's younger sister now has a foreign exchange student from England named Joanne. She's a nice girl. She speaks German with a British accent, and that's pretty hilarious sounding."

"So... today, we got a tour of the High School and the town. Plenty of funny things... a German kid walking by us dropped a magazine. It was porn."

"Ummmm... Oh yes, we saw a little baby girl sitting in the middle of the street with her mother a good 15 feet away, not paying the least bit of attention to her. And when I says "street", I mean street. Not sidewalk."