day 9

day 9

today while sitting in my room i figured out how to improve my eating situation for the rest of the two months. i was thinking about lunch for my trip on saterday and i thought i could make a lunch outof the coldcuts and cresants and hardrolls and fruit they give us for breakfast every morning then i realized that i couldn't do that on saterday because they don't provide lunch but i could do it for the mercedes benz museum on wendsday next week. then i realized if i take rolls every day like i have been taking butter every day i could improve my caloric intake by two fold at dinner. and if i stock pile them (they are likly to last 2 days or so) i could make a fairly good lunch for my week end trips.

on saterday i plan to go to the farmers markt buy some bannannas then make something with my pancake mix and have breakfast then i will eat lunch incredubly early (about 9:30) then leave swchabisch hall with my bike on a train at about 10:00 then arrive in bretten at 12:00 then i will find a good spot to watch the bike race (it is a time trial so i will likly move around alot at the start then switch to the finish) during the gap between departure and arrival of the teams i will eat second lunch/ dinner (this will consist of goethe hard rolls and bannannas) then i will watch the finishes and maybe stick around to get autographs or somthing then fight my way onto a train to schwabisch hall i should get back at about 7-8 o'clock then i can make spagehitti for second dinner and then go to sleep. i expect the train tickets to cost 35 euros for round trip and dinner to cost about 2-4 euros (for bannannas only).

they have a special kind of roll here that i need to learn how to make its called a bretzel roll (pretzel roll) it is delicious. it is like a soft pretzel but with more soft inside parts.

since im on the topic of food I will go more into detail about the food at the goethe institute
breakfast consists of (starting from the beginning of the line) coffee, hot water, tea, milk, rolls; (pretzel,poppie seed, hard, othere) cresants, sliced breads, orange juice, cereals, butter, various jams, coldcutts (i don't know their specific names), and various fruits. it doesn't seem like breakfast because there is nothing cooked. but it fills you up. the germans have a view that breakfast is a smaller meal and that lunch and dinner are the most important meals.

for lunch we have a choice between two menus ussually the first is with meat the second is vegitarian. the lunches here are always german (mostly because they are made in germany) they consist of water, ussually some sort of grain (rice, spatzel, noodles) and some meat so far there has been only one dish i didn't like and thats because i made the mistake of going with the vegitarian menu. then either salad od dessert. salad is salad and desert is ussually some kind of pudding. then silverware, then we show the lady our card then when she is not looking we take a roll from the basket. and that is lunch

dinner is not served but it is ussually spegetthi with butter. however this week i got sauce to go with it so i'll have tomatoe flavored spagehitti.
on week ends we arn't supplied any food so i went out and found pancake mix. i'm not sure if its the electric stove (i hate electric stoves they take for ever to heat up and they take forever to cool down i hate them and will devote my life to destroying them) or if its the mix but the pancakes don't cook properly instead of coming out light brown and fluffy the come out partially burned and partially uncooked and dense and goey. either way i eat them. it may taste terrible but it keeps me going. when i run out of this mx i'm going to try waffle mix.

during the week break im going to try to make double baked potatoes (phill style. aka mashed potatoes with stuff in it) i may buy some french bread as well and make that last aslong as possible. i think the main problem i will hve over the break is not having butter or hard rolls.

there is an italien ice cream shop next door some day i will try to have real "italian ice" its a delicious ice cream drink thing i can't describe. i had it at a professors house freshman year it was good.