26: Photo of the week: It’s back!

Hello friends! It’s time again for another ‘Foto der Woche‘ and even though this might be no photographic master piece, this is undoubtedly my Glücklichmacher #47: Trader Joe’s Gingerbread Coffee (taken November 25, 2014) I can’t tell you how excited I was when I finally (!) spotted my beloved Gingerbread coffee in the coffee aisle at Trader Joe’s…

22: The Causeway Classic

Today it was time for J and I to attend our obligatory annual football game –  the  Causeway Classic – again. It’s the annual Football Game between UC Davis (Aggies) and Sacramento State University (Hornets) and it’s named after the Yolo Causeway, which is a 3.2-mile long elevated highway over the Yolo Bypass floodplain that connects Davis and Sacramento. Go Ags!…

21: Things you wouldn’t know: even more German idioms

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that in the last two years during NaBloPoMo, I started a little series about German idioms. Idioms are awesome in every language and the more idioms you know in a foreign language, the closer you’ll get to perfecting your language skills. J and I…