The Time has come

Hello All! So as promised i am updating! everyone say YAY!! as a side note, i was thinking of adding a ne feature to the blog... any ideas? and i think i am going to to a theme every update too!

Theme of the Week: Time

News of the Week:

So i think it has been what 3 weeks? well as usual not much has been going on... we had finals last week... i hope i get a c in at least one class, but i am not getting my hopes up... I also had a bit of a cold last week...I finaly finished my mom's scrapbook, and my aunts scarf! i wrapped the book, but the tape for some reason is not sticking so you know what that means! YAY i get to wrap something else!!! YAY!! I love wrapping!! ummm... Oh! Alex and i did a little x-mas thing at work Sunday... she got me this real cute bracelet like the one she has, that i love. so now i dont have to keep taking hers! hehe. Apperently everybody at work knows what Danny is getting me but me... pout! and Iris was holding it over my head all night on Sunday... oh the anticipation! ummm what else? oh i discovered a great German band called Wir sind Helden (we are heroes) i am sure their music will be featured at some point. ok so i guess on to the blog!

Song of the Week:

The Final Countdown by Europe.
here is the link to, as usual the youtube video! it is not that great, but i looked around forever, and i got tired hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4

Quote of the Week:

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
~~~ Marcus Aurelius

Picture of the Week:

"The persistance of time" by Dali



This Week in History:

December 23:
2000 death of Victor Borge, musician and comedian.

December 24:
1924 Albania becomes a republic.

December 25:
Christmas Day! Did Santa bring you good stuff?? hehe.

December 26:
First day of Kwanzaa.

December 27:
1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

December 28:
1945 U.S congress officaly recognises the Pledge of Allegiance

December 29:
1845 Texas is admitted as the 28th state

German:

This week we have a theme of Time, so lets learn how to tell time in Germany! Now do we all remember how to count in German? lets review quickly... i will just put the german, and if you want to review how to pronounce the words, go back to the lesson for September 30th! so just a quick review:
Eins
Zwei
Drei
Vier
Fünf
Sechs
Sieben
Acht
Neun
Zehn
Elf
Zwölf.


So to make it a "teen" number you just put the Zehn (10) after each number... Vierzehn (14) etc...now to make numbers after the teens, the structure is interesting... like in olde english, you would say "One and Twenty" (21) that would be: Eins unt Zwanzig. the "Zig" is like the "ty" at the end of english words. Also the Germans are on the 24 hour clock, so for 1 pm you would say it was 13 o'clock or "dreizehn uhr" (13 hour) so lets get into the actual translations shall we?

German: Uhr (OOO-ah)
English: hour (also Clock, O'clock)

German: Halb (HAL-b)
English: Half to (in german, the hour is always to the next hour for example 1:30 would be half to two or "Halb drei" get it?

German: Viertel vor (VEE-er-tel VOR)
English: Quarter to

German: Viertel nach (NAH-ch)
English: quarter past

So some time examples! I am assuming you will not need translations on these since you can just read a few sentances before...

German: Halb Vier
English: 3:30 am

German: Halb Zwanzig
English: 7:30 pm

German: Viertel Nach neun
English: 9:15 am

German: Vietel vor elf
English: 10:45 am

German: Achtzehn uhr
English: 6:00 pm

German: zwei unt zwanzig uhr
English: 10:00 pm (two and twenty o'clock which is 10pm... get it?)

see? it is not that hard! so this turned out well this week... as usual if you are stumped by the german post comments, and i will do my best to help (as you know i am still learning myself, but i think i got this one! hehe) also let me know what new feature you would like to see on this blog... and submit your ideas for themes... next time i think may be new years... maybe... i am not sure...and don't forget updates are every two weeks now so the net post will be on January 6th 2009!! wow already 2009... sigh... Well i guess that is it for this week! see you next time!