Guten Tag!

Corey gave the Marshalls and the Ballentines (and me!) a German lesson on Sunday night in preparation for the arrival of the Marshalls' German exchange student. We started out with a little background on German facts and politics. Next, we moved on to basic vocabulary such as hello and goodbye. After that, it quickly degenerated into learning how to say "please bring me another beer", "hey y'all, watch this", and "sorry I puked in your driveway". Corey even had to call his cousin, Erin, who lived in Germany for a while, to help out with those sentences.

To accompany our German lesson, Corey served pretzels and German beer.

Corey used a big poster board to illustrate the vocabulary lesson, but it didn't seem to help Ronnie much.

Corey even dug out his old German textbook to show us photos of what German kids looked like (circa 1985, I think). He threw baggies of gummi bears at us if we got questions right.

Jean entertained Charlotte.

Last night at Trivia, I quizzed David on how to say a few words, and he remembered a lot. Too bad our Trivia team is on a huge losing streak right now and totally bombed on the final question (we blanked on what F.L.O.T.U.S. might stand for). Oh well. At least we will have a new German team member coming to help us out. Steffen might have known what the only landlocked nation in southeast Asia was (Laos). That might be the first question I ask him when I meet him this weekend, actually.