Mixing German and Italian

[days_unfolding]

CNN is predicting that gas prices will go down a little in a week, so I'm going to skip my errands in Springfield today. I didn't realize that gas was up to $4.50 a gallon! Plus I was up late doing German homework. I have plenty of other things to do.

I'm looking at used Nissan Leafs as far as cars go, but they don't seem practical for driving to my mom's house. No, I'm not going to buy a new car right now! Plus I don't have a place to plug one in. My dad says that it's too early to get an electric car, plus it might not be better for the environment because coal plants are creating electricity. Now I'm wondering about a hybrid? Oh, the Hyundai IONIQ Plug-in Hybrid sounds interesting.

Best laid plans: My Italian teacher wanted me to have the lesson an hour early, so the lesson was back to back with German. Oh, never again. I managed to mix up German and Italian, which is quite a feat. But I got into the swing of Italian as the lesson progressed. I scheduled my next German lesson on Saturday night.

I need more pronunciation practice in German, so I started using Pimsleur. I also need to make more flashcards.

Had a nice long nap, but now I'm groggy. I need to return library books and get dots at Walmart. But I really want to stay home tonight.

I'm suffering from kitchen table overload. I have Italian and German grammar books there because I study there. And index cards for flashcards. And half-empty bottles of soda. And I dump the mail there. My task for tonight is to clear the basket on my cube organizer, which used to be for mail, but I stopped using it when it filled up. And I need a better spot for the grammar books (done).

Got the garbage out. Got the mail. I received my small plastic stool to sit on while I'm organizing.

I haven't finished emptying the mail basket, but made progress. I bought two more magazine holders because when I go through magazines, I rip out articles that I'd like to read and need a place to put them. I think that I'll take my decluttering picture and go make German flashcards (done).

Comments

[fauxklore]

My brother has a Hyundai Ioniq and likes it.

I relate to the overflowing kitchen table, too.

[days_unfolding]

I'll have to check out the Hyundai Ioniq.

[fbhjr]

One of my coworkers got the Hyundai one a couple of months ago and she is very happy with it.

[days_unfolding]

I'll have to check it out.

[threemeninaboat]

I had the Subaru Crosstrek hybrid and 4 months in the hail broke the windows and flooded the batteries and you can't replace the batteries soooo dead car. It was fully insured and I got back $10k more than I paid for it so I went with a Subaru STi, the one with the worst gas mileage :) .

[days_unfolding]

Oh, I didn't know that the Suburu Crosstrek had a hybrid! I'll have to check it out! I'd like a car that handles well in snow (although I'm not car shopping today).

[brittdreams]

I should've thought to ask this before: how did you find your language teachers?

Our kitchen table is constantly overloaded. We had to clear it off to host guests but it's already starting to collect things again.

[days_unfolding]

I joined a Facebook groups for Italian, and my teacher posted that he wanted to start classes. Eventually the class fell apart due to people's schedules, so now I'm taking private lessons from him.

The German teacher is on italki.

[richaarde]

I just read that the price of gas is supposed to go back up again, at least around here (NJ). I drive a subcompact, so I'm not as concerned as some others might be.

[days_unfolding]

Oh bah. Thanks for telling me.