Wow, my year in Germany is very nearly at an end. It doesn’t feel real that soon I’ll be back in New Zealand. As a special leaving gift, the Weather Gods have decided to snow over Germany and apparently this weekend will be -10°. Huzzah.
My time here has been amazing and I have learnt so much. One of the things I’ve learnt is how much random knowledge of how things work I have accumulated in my 19 years and that the five year old Sandy does not know. So I have made a list of awesome things I have taught Sandy over this year:
•The phrase “Pretty gosh darn.” As in: “Look Grace, I’m swinging pretty gosh darn high!”
•How to tie-dye
• “Eenie meenie minie mo.”
♪The Spider-Pig song- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Ioa4XQw&feature=related
•How to play Paper, Scissors, Rock
• “Fish are friends, not food.”
♪The SpongeBob Squarepants theme song
♪The Campfire Song song
•How to pretend to go down stairs, escalators and elevators behind a couch, à la Austin Powers
•“Om nom nom.”
♪The “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” song (This one was an accident, I said it *once*)
•A secret handshake
•Hand signals that allow us to ninja silently and unseen through the house
•Snap, Go Fish, Snakes and Ladders, Gin Rummy, checkers and chess
•Essential dance moves including but not limited to the Sprinkler, the Lawnmower, the Shopping Trolley, the Woodsman and the Running Man
•The Tale of the Three Little Pirates
• “Hey Sands, what’re you up to?” “Nothing much.”
Not a single afternoon squandered...
