Thulani in Germany Part 1

Thulani arrived in Bramsche (Northern Germany) today.   Since the girls (Mom Lee-Ann and daughter Jamie) are on holiday in South Africa and will only be back on April 10th, he joins Friedrich and has a closer look around our house

Thulani's going to figure out whether all the cliches about Germans are correct, even the one about the towels and the sunloungers. First thing he had to learn: If there's a sign, you should probably obey it. If the sauna poster tells you to shower before cooling off in the plunge pool, do it – unless you want to get into an argument with a naked German about your personal hygiene. Always carry your ID card. Don't cut the lawn during the Mittagsruhe (the fiercely enforced quiet time over lunch). Recycle everything. Even the grungiest station platform includes a bin separated into compartments for paper, glass and Restmüll (leftover rubbish), and woe betide you if someone spots you chucking your apple core into the wrong receptacle. But if you walk around in public drinking your bottle of beer that's fine even if you're as young as Thulani ... are these Germans mad? Thulani's going to find out in the next couple of days.

It's really hard for Thulani to decide which German beer to try first

Thulani enjoyed his (first ?) beer on his trip, but he got drunk quickly

He decided to join Friedrich's healthy lifestyle and to have lots of traditional German food like Italian Pizza and Turkish Döner Kebab ( = Arab Shawarma)

Thulani gets brave and thinks about going to the local fun fair this weekend

 
Thulani enjoys playing small games on facebook but it took quite a while to get used to the strange German keyboard layout ... why did the swap around the "y" and the "z" keys. And then they've got some letters with two tiny dots above the actual letter which they call an "Umlaut" , but the worst one is the letter ß which is also called "sharp s" or "sz"