Mittwoch

The middle of the week comes so fast!

Hmm, today the blog page is totally in Japanese. All the buttons have these symobols for letters. Or is it Korean maybe. One never knows what one will get when sitting at a computer here. Isn't it bad enough that the keyboard has the Y in the wrong place and I can never find the question mark?? Ha! I found it. There are people from many places here. Evidently a clever one from Asia has tampered with the computer. Even German is better than this, I can deduce meaning with German. German is hard, sure, but at least English and German share the same alphabet. Try going from Japanese to German. Yikes. There are many students here from Asia. Amazing really.

I would like to offer out to world a big smile today. To all the people on the bus who do not smile at me. Yea you, I'm smiling at you! What is wrong with a little smile? Just a little one. Not too much, no grinning.
Unfortunately I am finding this to be a generally true stereotype of Germans. They smile at those they know and love. Not to strangers. Even nice strangers just trying to be nice. Oh well. I keep smiling.

Now onto the daily news. I have been watching a bit of TV. I try to watch the German stations, but honestly sometimes I just want to understand what the heck they are saying. Is that so wrong?? So, I watch CCN world. Which interestingly is different than that CNN in the USA. The riots in France are really bad, terrible how the people feel there and also what they do to their own neighborhoods. In a world full of immigrants it amazes me that they are still treated with such discrimination, and that there is so much unrest. I hope one day in a modern world being an immigrant will be 'cool' because it is really. Also, the US president (George W.) has some bad press (BIG surprise) in South America. Why doesn't he just stay in TX? People like him and no buildings will be burned down. Also, I had no idea Prince Charles and Camilla were into Organic farming? Since when is he an environmentalist? I had no idea. He still sort of dopey though. Oh well, not all princes can be charming.

OK, Enough of this.
Back to work, all of you, and me.