Tomorrow: ice cream (hopefully)

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Today:
- I bought a freezer! They had them at Hofer since yesterday and DD and I had to go to three different stores until we found one left. Soon I can finally buy ice cream reserves!

- I finally tried out the Citybike system. The bikes are nothing special, but there's a stop two minutes from my house and I think it'll be convenient on occasion. I should get my mom's bike helmet, she doesn't need it in Bolivia.

- I wrote almost 2k and finished the D&D session summary, the longest so far. Someone has to do it, and I don't mind, but it's cutting into my story-writing energy. Sure I know what happened, but I still have to put it in words.

- Someone almost ran me over with a car at a crosswalk and my first reaction was to shout "Oida!", that made me feel very Viennese. (Especially as someone who is usually terrible with Viennese dialect. My parents are both from further West, and I'm not good at imitating dialects in general… I do speak Vorarlbergerisch though, which has some similarities with Swiss German and is always fun to surprise people with.)

- I finished watching "Yowamushi Pedal." It's adorable! The rec that made me watch it. I was literally flailing and making high-pitched noises at some points. Team! Friends! Singing!
Some of my favorite things, apart from everything, was that it did such a good job portraying the Hakone team that I wanted them to win too. But there can only be one! At least Hakone technically won the fall race I think, since Makishima didn't race the first day and therefore didn't count.

Comments

[alatefeline]

>> that made me feel very Viennese. <<

Sometimes this can be fun.

I know that I really enjoyed feeling Kansas Citian at several points while I lived there (although part of that was also critiquing Kansas City (both KS and MO, it is a region in two parts of the USA) and wanting it to be better)...and I have enjoyed walking around Portland, OR, USA and think I will enjoy doing more of this, even though it will be complicated for me to begin developing an identity of myself as a Portlander (due to being an arrival to a region that is currently suffering from having too many new arrivals, and ethnically U.S. white in a region that has historically been very hostile to U.S. blacks and oppressive to Native Americans despite the large local population).

>> My parents are both from further West, and I'm not good at imitating dialects in general… I do speak Vorarlbergerisch though, which has some similarities with Swiss German and is always fun to surprise people with <<

Fascinating.

>> I should get my mom's bike helmet, she doesn't need it in Bolivia. <<

Makes sense.

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My mom is currently teaching at a convent in Bolivia. The convent is organized by an order of nuns from Vorarlberg, and most of the volunteers are also from there. So in the middle of Bolivia you have this tiny convent with people talking in a dialect from a small province in Austria with less than 400.000 people ^^

Becoming familiar with a new area can be difficult. Good luck in Portland :)

[alatefeline]

Fascinating! Yes, there are many pockets of interesting linguistic and cultural clumping in far-flung places out there, and many of them are historically influenced by religion, but this is an amazing contemporary example.

Oida!

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Wien färbt ab! XD

Re: Oida!

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Jahrelang hab ich mir anhören müssen, dass mein Wienerisch (nur verwendet zum Wienerlieder singen) grauslig ist, aber vielleicht muss ich die Hoffnung noch nicht aufgeben ^^

[lilysea]

Yay freezer! ^_^

Yay icecream! ^_^

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Ice cream *_*

[sallymn]

Yay for freezer and icecream! Sis likes to make different icecreams for Christmas, and I get to taste-test :)

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Sounds like a great arrangement!
I just found out the freezer can't be delivered before I go on vacation, so only in three weeks :( Oh well, I'll manage until then.

[geckoholic]

Yay for the freezer! Buy all the ice cream! XD

Someone almost ran you over? You're okay, though, yes? D:

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I'm perfectly fine! Didn't even fall.
It's always a good time for ice cream :)

[naye]

Oh yay you liked it! It was such a hit with us - just the right amount of absolutely adorable and earnest and over the top shounen. And both Sohoku and Hakogaku are incredibly lovable! (Kyofushi and Hiroshima are... weirdly interesting?)

...what's your mom doing in Bolivia?

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It's a great feel-good show :)
I'm very curious what's going to happen next season. If I understood correctly there are still a few months to go in the school year, but the big race is already over. And then next year: lots of new first years, I assume? Hakone has more than enough people, but Sohoku is a rather small club... Looking forward to it.

She's teaching music at a convent school for half a year. Apparently most of the students can't carry a tune, so she has her work cut out for her! Many new experiences, and so far she's enjoying it a lot.