On my way home tonight I was talking to an American friend, Caley, in English, when a very drunk German girl (DGG) - drunk as in we smelled it from 10 feet away - interrupted our conversation.

DGG: Where in the States are you from?
Me: I am not, I am German.
DGG: Well, your English is fucking good.
Me: Um, thanks.
DGG: I don’t believe you.
Me: Who, me?
DGG: You are not German, you are American.
Me: No, I am German.
DGG: But you grew up in the States. You know, I lived there for half a year, in Massachussetts.
Me: Nope, I am German, I grew up in Germany.
DGG: Then you grew up around Americans.
Me: No, I did not. I was born in Germany, grew up here, and lived here all my life, except for one year that I lived in the States.
DGG: Hah, you just gave me the answer.
Me: What?
DGG: You grew up in the States.
Me: No! I grew up here, lived in the States for one year!

Very amusing conversation. Since she kept speaking English, I played along and spoke English as well. If I didn’t believe someone was German (however, if someone told me they are, I would probably not keep telling them “no you’re not”), I would simply start speaking German to see if they speak German at all and see if they have an accent. By the way, while her English was definitely American-English, she had a German accent that was pretty easy to hear. I guess since she had a stronger accent than I do, she couldn’t hear mine.

She then got bored and told some other random people (in German) how she is half-Arab and half-German, and how she is currently blonde, but her hair is actually black, and how her eyes change color. Iiiinteresting, I am sure these people were just dying to hear about that.

Totally made my day.

Well, getting an A in my Spanish Linguistics final might have helped, though, as well as surviving my last two finals, and seeing a super-cute movie, The Holiday. Jude Law has such a cute English accent; normally I am not very much into British English, but it can sound cute, and they have some funny words. (And yeah, I realize I just used the word cute three times in two sentences, and now I am all cuted out.)

I was at Nelly’s birthday party tonight, and I was talking with Sheela and Dani about StudiVZ (the German Facebook).

Dani: So what is this StudiVZ good for?
Viviane: You can stalk people from your classes, find out what they listen to, etc.
Dani: So I could just type in someone’s first name, and find them? Sheela, what was that guy’s last name from that one class?
Viviane: Yeah, you can, but say, the guy’s name is David*, you’ll find a lot of results, because the name is fairly common.
Sheela: That guy’s name is David*. Did you know that?
Viviane: No, I just thought of it randomly.

I don’t remember what was said by Dani and Sheela, but that is the extent of the conversation. I thought it was hilarious. I was trying to think of a common name, and that name popped into my head, and then that guy’s name is actually David*! I am so telepathic. Haha!

* Name changed. ;)

Yeah, I had a good time.