Project November Day 7

Day 7: What you ate today

Like before, this post is reflective of yesterday. So, here's what I are yesterday.

Breakfast: Oatmeal topped with almonds, craisins, and dark chocolate chips. YUM.

Morning snack: More almonds, craisins, and dark chocolate chips.

Lunch: Apples and oranges

After school snack (in German class!): Chocolate milk, Haribo gummies

Dinner: Frozen pizza (too tired to photograph)

P52 / 11 / green

This week I attended my very first St. Patrick's Day party. A couple from BFA hosted a green dinner, at which everything we consumed was green. The evening began with a walk around town where we found shamrocks with St. Patrick trivia written on them. Then, our meal was served in three courses:

• Course 1: Salad, cucumber dressing, broccoli, cucumbers. Pretty normal, until you add in the green cheese (Wasabi gouda! You have to see it to believe it.).
• Course 2: Here's where things start to get weird. Green noodles, Swedish meatballs in green sauce, and homemade sweet rolls with butter, both tinted the most magnificent shade of mint I have ever seen.
• Course 3: Green applesauce, green cottage cheese, and green lemon bars.

The beverage of choice was "pond water" - apfelschorle (bubbly apple juice) tinted green.

It was a fun evening spent with people I don't have the chance to spend nearly enough time with!

P52 / 11 / green

*TMI: I was concerned that there would be awkward ramifications of consuming so much food coloring, but today everything appears to be normal. Just thought you should know. :)



foody friday: fruit smoothies

One of my favorite things about spring is the fresh fruit that suddenly abounds, both in the fields and the grocery stores. I am slightly addicted to fruit smoothies, and after much trial and error have developed my go-to recipe, which only adds to the pleasantness of waking up to the sun on a warm spring morning. For someone who hates mornings, I love waking up to this.

For fun, I'm going to write the recipe in German since that was my homework for German class this week.

6 stueck erdbeeren
15 stueck heidelbeeren
1 banane
1 kiwi
100g joghurt
1 schluck orangensaft

Translation:
6 strawberries
15 blueberries
1 banana
1 kiwi
100g yogurt
1 splash of orange jiuce

P52 / 04 / travel

This weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Hannover, Germany with 9 other BFA staff members to attend the Association of German International Schools educators' conference. We took the train and spent about 7 hours traveling!

P52 / 04 / travel

P52 / 02 / breakfast

I wish I could say this was my typical morning meal, but unfortunately I am never up early enough to actually cook myself breakfast. Usually it involves yogurt and granola that I eat out of a coffee mug at school while gearing up for my first period class.

P52 / 02 / breakfast

#360: happyccino

Had my first McDonald's peppermint mocha today. The cup was happy to see me. (I know, you probably can't see the face, but it's there!!)

show&tell #360: happyccino

#318: sick day

On Monday I took my very first sick day in four years of teaching.

show&tell #318: sick day

#299: c'mon get healthy

show&tell #299: c'mon get healthy

#276: a day off

What do you do when you don't have school? Go to Switzerland and spend your life's savings on coffee, what else?!

show&tell #276: a day off

#268: mug shot

My new mug, a present to myself from the annual Kandern Topfermarkt. I intended to buy a mug that matched the one I bought last year, but that artist wasn't there this year. So, I got two of these monsters instead. Beautiful, no?

show&tell #268: mug shot

#245: refreshed

show&tell #245: refreshed

#226: guess what I made?

show&tell #226: guess what I made?

I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with bocha boconut biced boffee and is sold at a place that rhymes with barbucks.