Vorletzer Tag...

Life in the Paki-Costa household läuft so normal wie immer, außer dass Joel jetzt in die Schule geht, sie haben jetzt eine Katze statt eines Aupair-Mädchens, und Jan, Simon, und ich liegen die ganze Zeit rum und faulenzen. Nein, nicht wirklich, ich versuche soviel wie möglich zu helfen, aber ich habe irgendwie das Gefühl Manuela hat schon so was ähnliches wie eine Routine erfunden. Hoffentlich läuft dieses Jahr alles wie geplant!

Rendy had a little bit of free space in his luggage when he left last week, so I let him take a couple of things for me, but not very much because I thought when we met Willow at the airport (she came straight from Sascha's place with all her stuff), she might have extra junk she would be wanting to stuff in Rendy's bag. That very same day, however, as I was in Nastätten waiting for a free Termin bei the Hairsalon, I ended up in Bücherland and bought myself another large book. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv Sein Tod (even the title is a play on words: Basically, "The Dative is the death of the Genitive". If you've ever attempted to learn German, you know that these are the two most confusing and least used of the four German cases, and one of the many articles about the Irrgarten of the German language contained in the book explains that the Genitive case is slowly dying out through misuse of the Dative. Hence the title, which transforms what otherwise could have been a straightforward thought (Der Dativ is der Tod des Genitivs) into the mouthful of jumble that I only recently understood) is a series that has been mehrmals recommended to me, but whose volumes usually cost 8,95€ apiece. I once found the first volume for 5€, and didn't buy it, and although I later wished I had, I now am glad I waited, because the first three volumes are now available as a set for only 10€.

Luckily, the volume is paperback, but nevertheless quite hefty, but I've been having a fun time reading through it and getting feedback from the family. I hope I can still fit everything into my suitcase before Wednesday!

The end of my Reisebericht is still on the way, but as you can imagine, I'm reluctant to take time out from my last days here to write a silly blog :)