One can never have enough dough

August 9, 2005 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

Rehab is still going well, although I’m really starting to get sick of the food. Germans eat bread, cheese and cold cuts for breakfast and dinner every day. I’m sick of bread and cheese (I’ve never liked cold cuts, so there’s no big change in my feelings for them). We also have salad with lunch and dinner (which in theory is no problem), but salad here means iceberg lettuce with tomato and cucumber slices and shredded carrots and radishes. How about some variety already!!! On the bright side, this is contributing to my ever greater weight loss, as now I go into the cafeteria, take one look at the salad bar and go, ugh, maybe I’m not that hungry after all. And potatoes! I haven’t mentioned potatoes yet. Boiled potatoes every day with lunch. Enough already! Oh yeah, one more thing, they steam the hell out of the vegetables here. You don’t even need to chew, just mush them around with your tongue a little and swallow. Okay, enough criticism of German cooking.

I’m doing Chi-gong, Nordic-walking, weight training, and aqua jogging, and have lost over 4 kg. I don’t particularly like Chi-gong, but Nordic-walking and aqua jogging are fun. I need to buy some poles for Nordic-walking, then I can do this at home. There are also creative classes in the evenings and I did silk painting last week and this is a really cool hobby that I will be taking up. Everybody on my Christmas list will be getting silk scarves!!! I tried painting porcelain and I suck big time at this. Making gel candles was really boring.

I met with a psychologist yesterday to address my social isolation problems. I have no skill whatsoever in the making-friends-with-Germans department. This has gotten me pretty down over the last 3 years. She says I need to be less direct, Germans are suspicious when you come right out and say things like, “You want to come over for dinner Friday night?” or “Want to see a movie Saturday?” This is too pushy. You should instead say, “Maybe we can get together and do something sometime, give me a call if you feel like it.” And my foolproof friend making method of inviting everyone you know and their friends to a party is too pushy for Germans. They will come, but will be very suspicious of your intentions. Why? I have no idea. I don’t get what is so suspicious about inviting someone you are not friends with to a party, which is, I suppose, why I have very few German friends. No wonder Rainer was a little freaked out when I said, “I like you, how about dinner?” I have managed to set up an appointment to have coffee with another girl here at rehab on Wednesday afternoon (I said to her, “If you feel like it, we could do something sometime” and she answered, “yeah, maybe we could have coffee sometime,” to which I answered, “yeah, that would be good”). Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Anyways, her final advice was to forget about making friends and maybe they will just come along. It’s kind of like the whole getting a boyfriend thing. If you really want one, there are no decent guys around, but when you stop looking, they appear. She suggests I just find things I like to do and learn to live without friends. Yeah, okay, I guess I will give this a try.

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  1. Vicky on August 12th, 2005 4:37 am

    If you makes you feel any better, I don’t seem to be any good at meeting Germans either.

    A few years ago, I met some visiting Germans out at a gathering in Virginia. After some conversation I asked, “Have you seen the movie Saving Private Ryan?” with the intention of inquiring about some of unsubtitled German dialogue.

    One guy got offended at my question and said (paraphrased — I don’t call the exact word choice), “I didn’t fight in that war, my father didn’t fight in that war, my grandfather didn’t fight in that war. When are you Americans going to forget about it?”

    Anyway, I didn’t leave with a new friend that night!

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