BAVARIA
So I´m back in Germany. Actually it´s not really Germany, it´s Bavaria. Seriously, this is another country.
I didn´t post too much during my 2,5 years in Paris, maybe because living there was quite normal. Of course the French have also funny, sometimes annoying attitudes, but all in all life was pretty good there.
What I have discovered here in Bavaria so far, seems to be more shareable. So I decided to write a little more about my life in Southern Germany.
Just yesterday I went to the bakery to get some breakfast. I knew this cafe/bakery/pastryshop because Holger and I have already had breakfast there when we were looking for appartments. So I got there and said to the Lady: I would like to have 3 rolls (little bread things Germans like to eat for breakfast). The whole store was full of bread, rolls, pastries, cakes... The Lady replies: I´m sorry we don´t have rolls. I go: WHAT? but you have lots of rolls here. The Lady turms around and asks another Lady and then tells me that they don´t sell them. Whatever... So I go to this other bakery across the street and see a croissant, which looks not too awefull. I say: I would like a croissant. The new Lady replies: an empty? I again: WHAT? A CROISSANT. She ´s like: yes, an empty one? I say: a regular croissant. She explaines by making a weired face that they have croissants with vanilla or chocolate fillings or empty ones. So I say again, one regular croissant which leads to her answer: an empty one! OK!! That croissant wasn´t even good.
I also have to learn a new langauge here.
roll:
German=Brötchen
Bavarian=Semmel
I didn´t post too much during my 2,5 years in Paris, maybe because living there was quite normal. Of course the French have also funny, sometimes annoying attitudes, but all in all life was pretty good there.
What I have discovered here in Bavaria so far, seems to be more shareable. So I decided to write a little more about my life in Southern Germany.
Just yesterday I went to the bakery to get some breakfast. I knew this cafe/bakery/pastryshop because Holger and I have already had breakfast there when we were looking for appartments. So I got there and said to the Lady: I would like to have 3 rolls (little bread things Germans like to eat for breakfast). The whole store was full of bread, rolls, pastries, cakes... The Lady replies: I´m sorry we don´t have rolls. I go: WHAT? but you have lots of rolls here. The Lady turms around and asks another Lady and then tells me that they don´t sell them. Whatever... So I go to this other bakery across the street and see a croissant, which looks not too awefull. I say: I would like a croissant. The new Lady replies: an empty? I again: WHAT? A CROISSANT. She ´s like: yes, an empty one? I say: a regular croissant. She explaines by making a weired face that they have croissants with vanilla or chocolate fillings or empty ones. So I say again, one regular croissant which leads to her answer: an empty one! OK!! That croissant wasn´t even good.
I also have to learn a new langauge here.
roll:
German=Brötchen
Bavarian=Semmel
posted by ChaosCaro at
2/09/2009 10:27:00 AM
1 Comments:
Oh, my gosh. You mean they have a totally different language? Yankees talk very clipped and southerners talk really slow and make one syllable words into 2 syllables but we pretty much speak the same language and can understand each other. I had heard that Bavarian and Austrian German is difficult to understand because it is a "heavier" German. Is that true?
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