Friday, October 10, 2008

VwaV Carrot Bisque

On that forum that I visit, they've got filters for bad words that are generally food related. For example: masterbate = stroganoff and fuck = fork and bitch = bisque, so you can imagine how I might be giggling when I talk about that awesome bisque I had last night. I can't say that it was the best thing ever... because all the VwaV soups are so.forking.good!!


VwaV carrot bisque with a brötchen.

This week-end I'm going to Aachen to visit the family (not the former folks I lived with, silly!) and then to Bonn for a CS brunch. I was a little freaked out about money and stuff, but when my host father paid me this morning, he gave me money for last week too! I told him, "But I didn't work last week." "Oh, that's alright," he replied. " There may be another week where we'll need you more often." So, basically he's bribing me (is that bribing? or is there a better term?), but I'm totally okay with that. He's named a good price.

When my host father was re-arranging my room yesterday (more on that later), he kept talking about getting rid of my huge bed and getting a smaller one so I could fit a desk and couch or chair in there. I said, "No way, man!" (alright, i didn't call him "man") "I love the huge bed! In my last host family, I had to sleep on this couch thing." [see this post] My host father responded, "You what?! Rachel, that's not right." It'd never occured to me before, but he's absolutely correct. If I'm going to be living somewhere for a year, I need to be given an actual mattress to sleep on and not whatever my host family has got lying around. For all the preaching I do to other aupairs about asserting their rights, I can't believe how often I don't stand up for my own.

3 comments:

Regina said...

I use my king size bed as a combination bed/desk/dinner table. A great place for carrot bisque and brotchen. Remember the carrot soup I used to make? Perfect forkin autumn food.

Anonymous said...

that's cool that he gave you more money! he's right though, you probably deserve it more than you know.
does it bother you a bit that he was rearranging your room? I would be a bit peeved if someone were to do stuff in my quarters. I don't know. I'm just a bisque like that, I guess.

Rachel said...

meh.... I'll give more info about that later when my room is photograph-able. I brought back a lot of my stuff that was sitting in a friend's basement in Aachen this last week-end and that's laying everywhere + the walls are bare. It's for the better. I do agree with you though, celine. I eagerly await the day that it's MY place and MY stuff to rearrange MYself.