Clog Theory

Someone's got to have written a PhD on this.

Squirrels

Highlights of Our Summer Trip

There you go, a comic with some of the highlights from our wonderful four-country trip! Thanks for all your awesome comments during the trip---I think I was finally able to respond to all of them last night. And most importantly---thank you thank you thank you to all our friends who hosted us and made our trip superawesome!

Yay!

Brought to you by G

I am le pooped so G filled in for me today. Thanks!

Translation:
"Zzz"
"Shit. I can't sleep."
"Snore"

"So heavy!"

"Nozomi is sleeping and can't update her blog today. Sorry!"

North American Friendliness

I still think the people in Berlin are quite friendly, but the level of friendliness in North America is just unbelievable.

Deceptive Starbucks

Sorry for the lack of updates yesterday! We landed in North America and are having a great time. Thanks for all the comments; I'm enjoying them and will reply soon!

Eh

I spent about three years in Toronto for university, during which time I picked up the infamous Canadian "eh." I tend to forget how recognizable that habit is when I'm in Europe---most people think I'm just American because of my generic (well, whatever generic is) North American accent. But it was a dead give-away to the American girl that I was talking to the other day that I'd spent at least some time in Canada. It's really hard to hide it when you use "eh" like, 15 times in a matter of 3 minutes, eh.

The funny thing is, because I use "eh" so much, it's rubbed off on G as well. And G's British-pan-European English combined with the Canadian-eh-rubbed-off-from-Japanese-girlfriend makes for a pretty exotic combo.

Anyway, G and I are planning a trip to Toronto and NY in the summer, and I can't wait to go back to the land of Eh.

Manliness

Your bottle opener attached to your key ring? Yeah. Not so manly in Germany.

Constant Struggle

I'm always extnding my hand or opening my arms or reaching for a kiss when I'm not supposed to. A multikulti life results in funny, awkward moments. Although nothing has been more awkward than having a guy kiss the hand that I extended to shake his with. He had to flip my hand horizontally and then yank it up (because my arm was so rigid). Urk. Sorry.

No wait, I'm not sorry! It totally wasn't my fault!