First German meal at home

So, my host mom Gabi decided to make a typical German meal for dinner one night. I was excited to try it out and when walking into the kitchen, I could tell I was going to enjoy it from the different smells! I took pictures of each dish we had, so below are those pictures and a little bit of my views on them lol, guten appetite!

Here is a pic of the meal as a whole..I was so excited to eat it cause everything smelled so good!

This is KNODEL. Now, I don't have a German keyboard, so the spelling and special notations aren't going to be included in these foods lol. So, I don't really know what is in it. I do know that the main ingredient is potatoes, I think. This was pretty good, but it was the best when it was swimming in the sauce from the meat we had with it =)

And this was the meat, SAUERBRAUTEN. This was really good. The meat was really tender and the sauce was delicious, as I said before, I basically had the sauce all of my plate =). I will say this though, the knodel was good and all, but those of you who know me...I wouldn't have complained if the meat and sauce were atop some good ol' sticky rice!! And the vegetable of the meal, ROTKOHL. I think this was basically cooked red cabbage, with some seasoning. It was ok, but I prefer red cabbage raw. Reminds me of my mom's cabbage salad...mmmmmm, the best a day or two after so the dressing has been soaked up by the cabbage =)..lol, sorry for the side note. So, that was my first real German, home-cooked meal. Overall, it was super scrumcious =)

Thank you to all who come here and read and catch up with what I'm doing over here. I hope that everyone is doing well and that the first month of 2009 has been a great one!

CIAO!

Our first league game

First of all, I know I've done it again, where I've waited too long to post things. =/ sorry about that. I'll start with our first league game, this last Saturday.

We played Manheim, the same team we beat in the semi-finals of the Cup. There were points in the game that we played ok, but for the most part it was a really sloppy, ugly game. We came out flat, and as I said, majority of the game was ugly. In the end, we ended up winning, 79-52. However, I feel like we should have won by more and they shouldn't have scored as many. A few days before, we beat a division 2 team, when we had less players, and they were of a much high caliber. Hopefully our next game will be a better result, and not the result of the scoreboard, but of our intensity of play.

After the game, we went to dinner as a team. Our main sponsor said he would buy us dinner, he was happy about our Cup win the previous weekend. It was really nice to hang out with everyone, no stress, nothing but good food, fun company, and plenty of smiles and laughs to go around!

I know I've said it before, but this is a good group of people that I get to be around, and they make it easier for me to stay out here =).

Angie, Cati, Katja and me

I was helping Katja with her job lol

half of the table at dinner

and the other half of the table =)