Lecker

A friend of mine told me that Germans love saying “lecker”. It’s translated as “delicious” but actually means yummy and she was absolutely right when she said they say it all the time. Everything is “lecker”. Our teacher gave us hazelnut wafers on Friday and said, “Mmmm lecker!” I couldn’t stop laughing and still find it amusing that people use the word so often. It’s definitely a word I’ll be using often.

It’s been just a week that I’ve been here and have had just five days of class so life outside my classroom is still a little complicated, but absolutely hilarious. I think I’ve been drinking orange sugar water, pretending like it’s juice because the ingredients and name are in German. Everything in German supermarkets are in German and the staff speak mostly German too. I needed what we call “scotch brite” in India and obviously didn’t know the English word for it either so attempted to do some hilarious hand gestures while asking a man who worked there where I could find them.

I was also very kindly warned that carbonated water is a big deal in Germany. IT IS. It was useful to know before hand how to ask for uncarbonated water. When Ketaki was in Budapest her way of trying to communicate that she wanted uncarbonated water was saying “water” louder. Thank god I’m not a silly tourist.

I’m glad to be able to have this crazy adventure. Not only am I able to learn a new language, I’m able to do it while making a complete fool of myself. And I believe that life is more exciting when you’re being a complete nutcase.