Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Favourites...

So, yesterday evening, my little sister decided that she liked Germany the best, out of all of the countries on Earth. This morning, I asked her what her favourite country was, and she replied "I don't know." So I asked,
"What happened to Germany?"
To which she said: "France. France is my favourite country: I like ballet!"
*cue awkward pause*
"I'm just kidding" she said.
This is the child who has changed her favourites almost daily since a couple months ago, when we went to the Shedd and she decided that dolphins were her favourite animal. Then it changed to swans, then to bats (we saw some awesome fruit bats at the Columbus Zoo,) then to frogs (I read her a story about frogs), and then to Phoenixes, then cobras, and I can't remember any more after that. Still though,  she's the most fickle child I've ever met. My favourite animal has been the Koala for almost as long as I can remember, and my favourite country has been Egypt since at least fourth grade. *shakes head* What's coming over kids today?
I'm still going to teach her random words of German, though. Let's make a list:
1. donaudampfschifahrtsgesellschaftkapitän- a word referring to the captain of the Danube Steamship Company.
2. Fledermaus- bat
3. Vorsicht- beware
4. Bissiger- vicious (biting)
5. Dämon- demon
so, five random words of German! Yay! (B.t.w. they all appear in P.B. Kerr's second Children of the Lamp book: The Blue Djinn of Babylon... not my favourite of the series, but I still like it well enough.

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