I thought I may as well turn this into a series, as it’ll at least stop my complaints from going into every other entry.
I do like living here, for the most part, but sometimes I feel so depressed about things I miss..
Me and marius want to order food today, we rarely do this and..
There’s no pizza place that sells doughballs, has stuffed crust, has any base other than the cardboard-thin one, has double cheese..
Basically – they don’t have any American-style pizza anywhere.
The amount of times I have heard “We don’t have ________ in Germany”.. RARGH! completely normal common things as well.. Toffee popcorn.. Cheddar!!
Supermarkets here.. ARE AWFUL. (I am weirdly obsessed with supermarkets) I always remember the first time I came to germany being shocked by just how horrible the supermarket was. I’ve been to a lot now, and most are really similar – not much fresh food(I guess most people get fruit from the markets in the summer..), not clean enough, loads of canned/boxed things..
There’s no good place with take-out. NONE!!
Everything is closed on Sundays.
And all the stupid holidays.
Movies are usually dubbed, it’s difficult to find a place to watch movies in English with subtitles instead.
It costs 70 euros to buy a video game (that’s around $95 or £60) so we have to order them from the UK, same with camera/laptops etc, all more expensive here.
It’s too cold! I think this is causing me to get more irritated, I hate winter.. and they are much worse here than I am used to. I think this has been an extremely bad one though, the temperature has been going down to -17°C.. and rarely above like -2.
The snow. I thought it was starting to fade, but noooo. It’s been every day since like late November. :\I have to wear so many layers of clothes, I can’t wear anything nice anymore. Have to wear stupid hats and gloves all the time and my hands are constantly shaking, the cold goes through all of my shoes very quickly – even the boots I bought specifically for winter are un-wearable in this weather.
