So, after a week of recovery after our premiere (slight exaggeration!), I am capable of blogging again - and that for the 2nd time this month! Such as strange feeling to actually pretend to start blogging again on a regular basis.... (again, said quite ironically). Anyway, our premiere was good! It was quite the posh event, a real red carpet leading up the main stairs, with photographers and TV cameras and people (including myself!) in fancy dresses there the whole night; and of course German talk show hosts, actors, and such as well as Phil Collins and people from Disney at the show and the party! The orchestra even got individually introduced, which is not something that happens often - our so-called 15 minutes of fame! Unfortunately no autographs, but if you are interested in some profi pics from the show, click here!

In other news, there is just the election anticipation here in Germany, although not much has been reported in the news lately - that all will come next week! I am looking forward to attending an election party with live coverage American-time until the polls close (with buffet and big-screen TV and everything!) in the spirit of it all. Or it is at least a good excuse to hang out with people on a weeknight! ;)

In other news, although my tomato plants are half dead, I am still getting small tomatoes off of them! They seemed to have an early fall bloom, and there are still some green ones waiting to ripen, although with these temperatures I'll be lucky if I get them at this point in time for Christmas. The rest of the onions appear to have been a nice feast for an entire community of aphids, and the pea plant died of being powdered to death (by powdery mildew). Otherwise, beets, radishes, and carrots are still growing, albeit slowly. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

This is of course also the time of year when people get all dressed up as something more scary than other days - Halloween! Since this is a fairly new holiday in Germany, and also not very widely celebrated, the traditions that we Americans had as kids and still have are not settled in here yet. For example, most people here don't realize that you don't necessarily have to dress up as something evil. For them, witches are one of the only options for females. So one year, my friend and I dresses up as normal things, and we got such a hard time for it - our friends were confused and trying to tell us what to wear, and that we weren't allowed to dress up as a strawberry and a blueberry (or whatever it was)! Funny.

Trick-or-treating is becoming more popular here, from what I can tell, and the German children do have a tradition of their own - a lantern parade. With little lanterns on sticks, they march through the streets making noise with their school class in the evening. Very cute. You do not, however, see lots of jack-o-lanterns sitting on porches or balconies, all lit up, although two years ago we did make a cat one for our apartment since Jan had never done it before (and I baked the pumpkin seeds in the oven to eat)!

So any candy bought this week will not be eaten by any random kids wandering around! ;)

P.S. If you are still unsure of who to vote for, or want to just check for fun, visit this quiz to see who you should vote for! http://www.votehelp.org/

 

 

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