and again

My plan was to write about all the cool stuff that I would do here in San Francisco and then I ended up being sick on the couch for the whole first week. I even had to see a doctor, but that's not new to me since this happened last year too. I had to fill out a lot of forms again, but I noticed how friendly and helpful the doctors are. The opposite of their German colleagues, die könnten sich mal ne Scheibe abschneiden. (to take a leaf out of so.'s book)

Anyway, I am able to leave the couch now and I so did some fun stuff:
1. working & being in the office (very refreshing after one week of unintended couch laziness and stupid TV shows)
2. hanging out with Don (he showed me how to play Mankala)
3. nice thanksgiving dinner
4. and finally going out

Yes, I finally went out! We went to a nice movie theater and watch "untitled". The movie was pretty interesting but so was the movie theater too. It name is Bridge and opened in 1939, so it shows movies for 70 years now!
After the movie we went to an Asian Noodle place and I got a mushroom soup. fortunately the soup wasn't 70 years old, it looked a bit scary though with all the mushrooms but turned out to be very very delicious. No, we still didn't drive home: we had a beer in a friend's friend's bar and met some other friends.

Apropos delicious: Thanksgiving! This can be described with few words: wonderful house, food and people.

Oh, and today was Black Friday, the pulic holiday for shopping :) We did not go shopping, but I heard that people actually get killed when the shop doors open and all the impatient people are trying to get one of the limited offers. We kept away from any shops and so we both survived :)

I should change the title of the blog to 4 months in San Francisco or being in San Francisco every now and then

Because I just arrived again yesterday. I also decided to write in English, it only can get better :)
Yesterday I arrived in San Francisco. The weather was a great reward for sitting about 14 hours in a plane. I got some interesting neighbors this time:

• in front of me I had a spanish guy who decided that the space under his front seat belongs to him but also the space under his own seat. First I did not notice but it felt wrong. I looked under his seat and found his boots. So I asked him to put them somewhere else. He did it.. and replaced them with his bag... oh well.

• next to me were two italian guys sitting. the first thing I noticed was that the guy next to me had a skull tattoo on his middle finger. until yesterday I had no idea that italians get tattoos at all. but I guess that is just my ignorance, why should'nt they?

• behind me was an older man. Of course he had to leave his seat once in a while and when he did it he was leaning on my seat and pushing it down pretty strong

I decided to distract myself with some movies and noticed that the audio system in my seat was broken, only one site of the earphones received audio...
Sounds bad but somehow this all did not bother me so much. The food that I got made up for it. It was UNBELIEVABLE good. I actually have to find a recipe for the dessert: crumbled Oreo cookies with mousse au chocolat and raspberries. DELICIOUS!

Today I woke up pretty early and we decided to take the dogs to a walk at the beach. We took some pics:
This is on top of a small hill behind Justins house. The weather is nice and sunny, instead of gray and rainy as in Hamburg! The dogs are Ralf and Aslan.


This is me and Aslan after we walked to the next hill. We had to sat down a bit, it was quite exhausting to climb the hills.




And since it is Sunday we have to watch football, of course. At least only one game... then we will go to Lisa's, my favorite Mexican food place and after that get some ice cream at Coldstone. With these plans it only can be a great day for me :) Happy to be back!