If you are familiar with our blog, you know my German wife and I like to make pizzas on Sunday nights. But we don’t actually make pizzas, we ‘pimp‘ them: We buy cheap-as-balls frozen pizzas, then add all kinds of crazy shit to make them taste fantastic.
Now, The Wife and I have different methods for pimping our pizzas. I like to go berserk and add like a pound of shredded cheese and enough salami to choke a rhino. My wife likes to add extra tomato sauce and toss a few delicate handfuls of spinach on top. She also has differing opinions of cooking methods. Namely, she prefers to leave the pizza in the oven for a mere 15 minutes, and she likes to place it on the center rack, specifically.
She is so confident in her pimping methods, she likes to remind me of their merits each and every time we stick a pizza in the oven. This is why she concluded her latest affirmation with the line:
THE WIFE: “…and remember, last time, it turned out absolutely phenomenom.”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
Got to try that with the frozen pizza’s. I am a spoiled American and I like Pizza that is fresh and hot and that one can differentiate between it and the box it came in. Not sure about the soup though modifications though.
I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog
I’ve been here in Germany since Oct, 2012 and started a six month intensive training class 5 days a week, four hours per day last June. I think I’ve learned enough German to know that I don’t really know diddly-squat! I can hold my own with my wife and people who understand I don’t really have a clue, but in the ‘wild’…
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Hi Mario! Thank you for reading and commenting!
We arrived in Germany around the same time, my friend! Wow, now THAT is an intensive integration course.
Which part of Germany are you in?
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I am in Potsdam. And it is/was intensive. And my experience is a bit different than yours was/is; my instructor is from Kazakhstan, been here for 16 or so years and my class mates come from the usual assortment of the world, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand, Kenya (2 each), Liberia, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Brasil, Cuba, Israel… And all but four of them speak quite good English. Which made learning interesting since the instructor doesn’t speak a lot of English (or doesn’t admit to it…) and we all helped each other out in English when our fledgling Deutsch failed. Thank you for the very entertaining posts!
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Oh you lucky!
There are only 2 or 3 other people in my class who speak English. We literally have to use the words we just learned each day in order to communicate at all. It is incredibly frustrating. :)
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Yes I’am enojoying because after so many years I know the culture and do not take anything personally, it is just like it is, another culture. And there are a lot of things that I like from this Country. But I am also glad to know, that it ist not only my Impression what I have experienced since I am in Germany. Actually my roots are in Switzerland. But I like Germans and Germany better. Bye.
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Me too! Thank you for reading and commenting!
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