Tonight was the last meeting of my language course, at least until the new one starts next week. We only actually had class for the first half, and then for the second half we were all supposed to bring typical food and music from our homeland. I brought chocolate chip cookies, and forgot about the music since everyone listens to American music anyway. It was actually a lot of fun. We had Indian food, cheesecake, various types of cookies, crepes, fried doughballs from Africa, all kinds of stuff. We all just hung around for an hour and a half talking and eating. Afterward I went to an Eiscafe in Altstadt with Samson, one of the guys in the class from Cameroon. We were there for about an hour just talking, and we ate some pizza and drank some coffee (he actually had tea) before we went to the Hauptbahnhof to head home. All in all it was a pretty good evening.

Not much happened during the day today. To start off my morning, I woke up and rolled over to see Amelie cuddling with my teddy bear. After Esther and the kids were gone, I rode the bike to Aldi to buy some stuff to make the cookies and to make another Pflaumkuchen for Esther. On the way there I almost crashed the bike into a pole because I was trying not to run over a slug that was in the road. Luckily, we all came through unscathed. Anyway, after I got home I realized that I forgot to buy butter, eggs, and ladyfingers, which I needed for the Pflaumkuchen, so I wasn't able to start my baking yet. I took the bike back to Aldi to buy the remaining necessities before I picked up Pauline at about 1:30. I picked her up early because Zaynep was supposed to be coming over to play this afternoon, and she was coming between 2 and 3. When Pauline and I got back home we headed straight into the field with Amelie so that I didn't have to worry about her while I had both of the girls at home. Then Pauline and I set about to our baking, at which point I realized that, once again, I forgot to buy ladyfingers and eggs. Seriously?! So I forgot about the Pflaumkuchen for today and Pauline and I just made the chocolate chip cookies for me to take to my class this evening. In the end Zaynep was unable to come over because Güner had forgotten that they already had plans for the afternoon/evening, so we invited Jette over to play instead. That worked out well and kept Pauline occupied while I finished the baking and got myself ready to go to class.

I forgot to mention yesterday that Gustav had an entirely different interpretation of the odor here in the fields. I took both of the kids with me yesterday morning to walk Amelie since they didn't go to Kindergarten yesterday. When we got there, the first thing Gustav said was, "Blah, hier stinkt es so!" Pauline, once again, declared that, "Ja, es riecht nach Schinken," to which Gustav immediately replied, "Gar nicht, Pauline. Es riecht nach Scheiße!" Once again, I laughed my ass off. Gotta love these kids.