Deutschland - 1

I am alone in Germany for about 2 weeks, no access to a computer, but I want to keep track of my journey and thoughts along the way. [Ill give more context later] The mobile app won’t let me add photos but I’ll share a bunch when I get home. 

Here’s my silly story for today: 

So in Germany they offer a free service group called foodshare where local stores donate their broken/ damaged/ expired goods to a community group that gets together every week to take it out of their hands. People come with boxes and bins to collect items and then use them as they want. This evening, my aunt went out to get groceries from the group and came back with snacks, shampoo, bread, pastries, and berries. To prepare the berries, I was washing them and placing them in Tupperware for tomorrow. My aunt [Tabea] told me to compost the bad ones- so I was feeling the strawberries and giving her the good ones to cut. 

A lot of them were soft so a lot of them were thrown away. She asked me, “why are you throwing away half of my strawberries”? And I said, “they’re very mushy”.

Tabea and David just looked at each other and chuckled and then laughed so hard…

Apparently ‘mushy’ is a bad word for ‘vagina’ in German 😵‍💫 

I’m learning the language!! Just… unconventionally.