day 54

day 54??

two days ago actually at 10:00 pm i went to the bathroom an found thomas cleaning the kitchen apparently the cleanning staff were coming the next day and he wanted to clean up for them we got to talking and he said he was gonna buy some wine and chocolate to leave out for the cleaning staff. i said i would like to chip in. then i went to sleep and woke up in the morning did my home work and went to breakfast, brought rolls back to my room and walked back to the institute. on the way i say thomas with a bag and hee told me that was the wine and chocolate. when i got back to the institute i checked on the price for the frankfurt trip and saw that it was 22.50 euro, i only had 20 euro with me at the time. so during the first break i walked back to the dorm to get 2.50 euro and the cleaning staff was in the kitchen i over heard them saw herr thomas acouple times. (the night before an italian who eats with the group said that giving a gift like that was an insult) i wasn't sure what the german view of this was so i decied not to go up and be forced to explain so i went to the atm and withdrew money (which i need to do any way) and payed for the frankfurt trip. when i walked back to class i ran into thamas again he told me
thecleaning staff love him now (which is good for me and the oven situation) later he told me he talked to marie (the central abroad person) and said that she was gonna email me so i checked my email and ... well i'll just post it. (i deleted names and such because i know othere people are reading this blog)

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thanks for letting me know! I just got off the phone with Frau Dietrich at the Goethe Institut and she was very friendly and said that while the oven would have to be replaced it was an old oven and the most you would be charged would be the value the oven had at the time it broke. She was very impressed that you came forward and confessed that it had been you who broke the oven and will put that up in your favor. Currently she is unable to tell me what will happen or how much exactly a potential charge may be as she needs to wait for Frau Czerny's return (who is on vacation until next week). Central itself does not have anything in place for this but you might have a liability insurance or your parents might have a household insurance that also covers liability issues such as this. Could you check into that please?

Also, do not worry overly, as far as Frau Dietrich told me the charge would at the most probably be about 200 hundred dollars. So we will keep our fingers crossed and maybe you could find out whether you have insurance in the interim?Keep me posted and let me know if there is anything I can do to help!

Best,
Ruth

this is the email i sent here 2 days ago

Ruth

last Sunday afternoon I accidentally broke part of the oven in my dorm. does central have something in place for when stuff like this happens? I tried to swat a fly on the oven door with an oven-mit (I choose the oven-mit because I knew it was glass and didn't want to break it. I also didn't hit it to hard) apparently there was a magnet sewn into the hanging loop of the oven-mit, that I didn't know about and a hole had worn into it so the magnet could slide out. when I tried to swat the fly the magnet flew out and the glass panel in front of the oven shattered. as far as we can tell the glass was weakened before this incident because there is no way I hit it hard enough that it should have shattered. the house mister is looking into if the glass panel can be replaced or if he will have to buy a new stove (which would cost about 1000 euro) I don't wanna pay that much. is there any thing I don't know about that might help in this situation?

thanks
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when i got back to the dorm i talked to thomas again and he said that he walked by the office today and he saw house master and his boss in another room and the boss was chewing him out for hating us. later i heard that the house master came up to our kitchen and cheked the oven mit to see if the actually was a magnet i the oven mit (which there wasn't we took it out because it was dangerous i have it in my room incase any one needs proof.) so in the end we turned every one against the house master his workers, his boss, and we all hated him from the start. i gave thomas 5 euro for the wine and stuff and i think that every thing should turn out fine.




saw a movie in class today. it was about a young man who lived with his grandmother. the grandmothers friends would come to visit every day from the retirment home and tell her to move in with them. the grandson onday took her out for a walk in her wheel chair and she fell asleep so he stoped and left her to go to the bathroom. then the wheel chair rolled into a pond and the grandson saw her walking in the water so he build a strap system that would hold her up and allow her to walk in a line with a caster on a rail on the ceiling. then he had the idea of using baloons he tried it himself first and then he started to fly away his granmother took out a rifle and tried to shot the ballons but hit him in the leg instead then she hit the baloons the next seen showed him walking with a cast and cruches and the grandmother walking with the help of a harnes and ballon system the movie was called "gregors grosses enfindung" i liked it it was funny.

tomarrow most of the group leaves to go to munich to get drunk with millions of othere people. i find it strange they get drunk and film themselves and then watch the videos over and over again and laugh about it (the videos aren't even funny) i don't understand whats so great about being totally out of control and making an idiot of yourself. whats funny is that they feel bad for me not drinking. as if i want to be a drunken bafoon.

thats all for now