Where are my frozen frogs?

[feuervogel]

Thanks to this shite weather which can't make up its mind, I think I'm getting sick. This means I'm not going to be wandering around outside for hours the next couple days, so I can be gesund for my trips to Potsdam Saturday and Leipzig Sunday.

I haven't bought tickets to Leipzig yet; I'm meeting a couple gals from class at 11:30 to go to a travel agency and get some tickets on Connex (which I thought was a bus, but it's really a train). 8 am is gonna be painful DX At least I'm only a few stops away from Potsdamer Platz. I just checked, and if I catch the 7:44 U2, I should make it in time. That means I leave here around 7:35. ;__; But I can nap in the train, probably.

I'm gonna stop by the store and get some Ricola or something. My throat is a bit dry.

Also, it's mindboggling to me that the weather forecast for tomorrow and the enxt day changes every 6 hours. Yesterday morning, today's forecast was for 17 degrees (C), but now it's only 15. And the level of cloud cover changes all the time, and the chance of rain. It's safe to say I'm confused!

Anyway. I have an hour until I need to leave, so I'll use my time to work on my translation. My teacher said she'd be willing to go over it for grammar, though she doesn't promise anything for style.

Comments

[kriski]

ahhh, okay, you're taking the connex after all. i know where and when to pick you up, then.

if you're comming down with something, i suggest grippostad capsules from the pharmacy. you don't need a prescription. they are a bit pricy, but i think not as expensive as the wick products.

gute besserung!

[feuervogel]

Ja, Connex ist ganz billig! Ich glaube, ich frage beim Reisebuero, ob es etwas billiges nach Wien gibt, weil ich noch keine Karten gekauft habe. *peinlich*

Grippostad. Ich frage danach! Es gibt eine Apotheke ueber die Strasse von mir. Hoffentlich nicht sehr teuer, weil ich etwa Geld sparen will.

Vielen Dank, und bis Sonntag!

[beth_leonard]

I'm catching up on blogs a little now. I hope you feel well soon.

Out of curiosity, do you know how everyday Germans are reacting to the Greek debt crisis? (It looks from here like it's shaping up to be like the housing/banking crisis was here, but worse.) Germany is largely financing the Greek bailout and I wondered how the Germans felt about that.

--Beth

[feuervogel]

I haven't followed the news here (no TV), and most of the people in my class are non-Germans. Well, all, actually. So I haven't had much chance to ask Germans how they feel about it.

I assume I'd find a bit of anger about it, what with Germany being the strongest economy in the Euro zone and all.

[corbae.livejournal.com]

hey! sorry I've been commenting so sporadically AND that you're feeling sick. I have been reading everything (your life sounds pretty awesome right now!) and I know that Germans have awesome cold medicine (so you'll get better soon!).

I think this is a really strangely constructed comment /o\ but it's too too early here and I just woke up :( I hope it doesn't rain on you!

[kirin]

Aw, feel better soon! *sends psychic frozen frogs your way*

Weather here is weird too. I might actually need to turn the heat back on...

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

On a note entirely unrelated to this post, want to join me in Arizona next May? http://www.shadowunit.org/smf/index.php?topic=930.0 :-)

[feuervogel]

Maybe! Though that whole show-me-your-papers thing might put a crimp in it.

[amakarie.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better!

[botia.livejournal.com]

Aw, I hope you don't get sick. My favorite things for a sore/dry throat are the Hall's strawberry cream Breezers. I don't know what the ingredient in them is that makes them work so damn well, but they have a nice cooling effect without yucky menthol (btw if you find them over there and give them a try, let me know if you can identify what is in them that does that...they are sooo good).

[av3rnus.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the Breezers - I *hate* mentholated cough drops. The active ingredient is pectin, by the way, so that's probably what you're looking for.

[botia.livejournal.com]

Pectin, though, is in lots of other cough drop type things without that cooling effect.

However, they DO have a very high amount of beta carotene in them, so I'm wondering if that's what's making them feel "cool".

Menthol is nasty, and I feel nauseated if I have to use it. Bleh.

[feuervogel]

I did a quick google on the ingredients list, and I've never heard of the inactive ingredients causing a cooling sensation. Another quick google tells me that pectin could possibly cause a cooling sensation. (Though most of the first-page hits are about making jelly and the chemical processes behind that.)

My throat's better; now I just have a cough and stuffy nose. Bleh.