Diane’s World

This song : Elephant Gun by Beirut : Is one I found out about thanks to my wonderful cousin who has impeccably good musical taste. I listen to it every morning while trying to catch my bus, because of how “European” it feels. I have since downloaded a few other Beirut songs, and they didn’t disappoint me a single bit.Anyways, I ‘m sure you all weren’t expecting a post so soon – but hey! Here I am! I realized how I have too many pictures, and with Karneval starting tomorrow, I better dump them off on you before my stack of things to tell you gets too large!Ok well first these handsome men are Nick (from Greece) and Hamid (a Canadian Iranian). Hamid is the guy who took the next three or four pictures, so if you think they are cool, I didn’t do them

Well what we did was we went to an aqua zoo… where we saw a lot of fishies. Here is a fishy.

This is my british friend, Fred. But we call him Kow. This is him being eaten by a dinosaur skull at the aquazoo.

And me, Kow and Nick found a new living place in the Aquazoo. If you are ever in Düsseldorf, we live next to the prairie dogs in the Aquazoo. (Um… what are prairie dogs doing in an aquazoo? I just realized how odd that was.)

So yes, that was the aqua zoo. It was a lot of fun.

The next day we went to Schloss Benrath, which is basically a big, pink palace. We had to wear funny shoes inside and we couldn’t take pictures… but it was neat-o.

There was a big pond in the front. Kow and I wanted to go swimming, but it was too cold.

So we just let the swans swim. Here is a picture of the swans’ butts. Enjoy:

Then we took a small stroll through the English Gardens. Kow was upset with it’s quality, and had a strong desire to send the Queen a letter that she needs to keep up her gardens.

Here is upset Kow. (It’s very important that “kow” is said with a “k” not a “c”… so says “kow”. But I moo at him anyways.)

I have been painting again. I’ve been working on these for a while now and I’m finally happy.

I think this one is my favorite so far. I’m calling it “Homesick”

This is a bad picture of this one (actually of all of them) but it’s called “Ich bin Blau” Yes… it means more than just being blue.

And this is called “the Greeks”

Finally, another terrible picture of one that is currently still extremely wet and right next to me called “Rosenmontag”

Sorry they are bad pictures, but at least they are proof that I’ve been working. But I must say my “Happy wall” has never been so big!

I’m really bad at hanging things straight. Oh well.

Ok well I’m done. I’m starting to get frustrated with Germany and there are some minutes where I just want to be home… but I’m still doing rather well. Thanks to everybody who has been keeping in touch with me… it means a lot.

Next post will have something about the Köln Karneval (a huge thing going on in this area a lot like Mardis Gras). It’s so huge that we don’t even have school next monday (the biggest day of the carnival). If you would like to educate yourself about it before I post a lot of crazy pictures, go here.

Well I’ve got homework to do and sleep to catch up on. Have a wonderful week, ya’lls!