Imke

I'm kind of responsible for :husky:, :huskyhug:, :botoxlips: ... haha, I need a new hobby. Hi Antonia! :cheesy:

Hahahahaha, okay, it isn't. xD

^^ Hahaha, is that real? xD

:heart:

What is that? :uhoh:

I see alcohol though. :awesome:

Awww, pretty Jo! :lips: You look rather pissed though ... on both pics. :awesome:

^ OMG! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! :blush:

^ Why didn't you show me? :surprised:

+1 My feet should stop hurting too.

It's even spookier if you see that live in action. :anxious: I can only do some of those things.

Erm ... no ... but :wtf:????

That top is super-cute, Iz! :wacko:

Mine still looks odd, but I hope I can spice it up a bit and make it look just as I want it to look. :wacky: I'm already seeing myself buying a card after all ... :disappointed:

I can pwn you both, but I'm not going to do it. :anxious:

I just looked up what the regulations are in Germany and apparently you're not allowed to donate blood if you're a homo- or bisexual man. Bi- and homosexual women are allowed to. You're also not allowed to donate blood if you spent more than 6 months in Great Britain between 1980 and 1996 due to the risk of having been exposed to mad cow disease.

I'm pretty sure I can't donate blood anyway, because my iron level is too low and I might be a bit anemic. :shrug:

Maybe the percentage of people here who know the basics of English is still higher than the percentage of Americans who know the basics of another language. There's one example I have though: One big perfumery here in Germany had commercials that ended with "Come in and find out" ... they got rid of that slogan again eventually, because apparently a lot of Germans thought it was meant as "Come in and get the heck out again" ... tons of people here still have problems with the really easy things, because they never quite took learning English seriously in school.

Bonjour, ma chère. :lips:

I only started learning English in 7th grade. I think it's normal in Germany now to start learning English in primary school though. The English classes here are a big problem though ... we have tons of teachers who actually don't speak English that well ... they teach the students English, some those students set out to become English teachers etc. I've had 4 English teachers in my life, none of them was a native speaker and I remember that my first one taught me lots of crap (especially when it comes to pronunciation). So I don't neccessarily think that we take learning a language more serious over here. :thinking: I actually was quite shocked when some French and American students told me something like "Well, you're German of course your English is good." There are tons of people here who can't really talk English either, it's not neccessarily an American thing to not take learning another language seriously.

Why are all your cafeterias that good?! :sad:

It's kinda silly, I think ... I mean people in Europe donate blood all the time and it's not like we're all gonna die of mad cow disease. :thinking: Hmm ...

Oh, haha, they advertise that here on TV all the time ... "Quiero unas manzanas" "Manzanas rojas o manzanas verdes?" "Manzanas rojas, por favor". :bomb: I can't hear that sentence anymore. :dizzy:

That's true. My English improved a lot after I finished school and that even though I wasn't having any classes anymore ... I just watched movies/TV shows in English and tried to read as much as possible in English. I'm like that when it comes to my other languages (except for English) ... so I'm planning to go abroad again, because I just can't stand seeing myself saying "Oh how I wish I was fluent in Spanish" anymore. :uhoh: I just want to do something about it already.

Oh my ...