Junior High wasn’t a good time for me. The first year, I was bullied till I had several paranoid/mental breakdowns and my parents threatened to sue the school. Next year, I spent a lot of time avoiding school-my mind associated the place with trauma (wonder why…)
However, between being pelted with urine-soaked paper towels and playing hooky to avoid the previous sentence I took a beginner class in German. That class was probably the best time I ever had in Jr High…
I learned a few words and phrases that cling to my mind to this day. I learned to count to ten:
Einz
Zwei
Drei
Fehr
Fumf
Sechs
Seiben
Acht
Neun
Zehn! And I probably mangled the spelling of a lot of those (I remember the sound of the numbers more than the spelling…)
I learned that a beautiful woman (or a fly honey in 90’s speak) was a honig- also the word for what bees make!
But, most importantly…
I learned that apfelkuchen (apple cake) tastes awesome and kicks MAJOR ASS!! Story behind that lesson is my teacher brought over a custom baked apple cake for the class. I was so enamored by the taste-the caramel over the apples, the cinnamon crumbles-I not only had seconds, I said out loud “Man, apfelkuchen kicks ass!” Which garnered a laugh from my classmates.
Been experimenting with making memes for a short time and I wanna share what I made! Here they are…
My most recent creation Made this with help from my cat!
I know this has less than nothing to do with writing-sorry. But I like it cuz it’s a way to be creative in bite size bits. Some things take less than a sentence to say…
…those are my thoughts regarding police in America. I also believe that if our government wants us to get rid of our guns, they should disarm and abolish the American Gestapo first. Otherwise, they just want more victims. And stop trucking them to Israel to train with the Zionist oppressors!! Cop culture is paranoid and dangerous enough without some foreign asshat showing them how best to curb stomp a nonwhite person…!
And frankly, until we achieve police disarmament and abolition? We must never give up our guns. We must not let them make guns illegal either. Sorry to sound so right wing—I didn’t think this way before. I’ve seen the truth with all the brutality happening in this country. Go farther left than the useless Dems, and you get your guns back!
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