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Valuable Goods
Last weekend we tidied up the basement. On Monday I moved two TVs, one monitor and two PCs to the recycling center run by the municipal waste management company ("Wertstoffhof" literally means yard for substances of value).
This garbage disposal was surprisingly for free. Everything else will cost you a lot of money to throw away.
The supervisor showed me where I have to had to/would have to schlep my valuable materials to. I didn't ask him whether the devices would be disassembled by hand in Ghana or India and how much the waste facility gets would get for my valuable scrap.
While I was schlepping the reusable materials in the shown container ("in" because it was a really big one and I had to go in it) I watched another gray skinned victim of the Hartz laws in his natural habitat.
The sub-sub-sub contractor emptied a charitable organization's used clothes container.
He was driving an at least 20 year old Ford station wagon. The car was already packed full with used clothes. He packed the clothes from this container in a trailer with run-down summer tires.
In the old days Plünnhöker (literally: rag merchant - I appreciate a plain and honest term) was a honorable profession, then came the clothing donation depositing in a valuable-goods-container.<em>I like these little slice-of-life pieces. Just a couple of very minor issues with reported speech.</em>
0 votedFebruary 8, 20131Emotional Stress
On Monday evening my neighbor lay in wait for me. She was sitting at her window, and came out of the door when I arrived.
She told me her dog come was/had come under emotional stress due to the green waste pile at the property boundary behind the greenhouse.
She asked if I knew what she meant. I said: “No.” Wwe went together to the green waste pile and looked at it.
She said: “And the neighbor also complained about the waste pile.”
I asked if it was the neighbor with the diseased fir trees on the property boundary, which infect all other fir trees and spruce trees in the area. I got no answer.
She asked when the garbage heap will would be removed. She got no answer.
I looked at her garage and said: “The last time I looked at the cadastral map excerpt the garage was built over the property line.”
She said: “I will inform the landlord” (aka her father).
“Now it will soon be spring. The cold was terrible.”
On the long and winding path of life I have experienced that someone is was hiding behind someones man, wife, boss, partner or health. That this also works with a dog was unknown to me.<em>Very funny story, and well written. The only errors I caught were related to reported speech tense. Good luck with your neighbor!</em>
0 votedFebruary 6, 20131- Warum studiert man an der Universität? Ich finde diese Frage sehr interessant, weil ich an einer Universität lehre. Auch erinnere ich mich an meinen Jahren wie Student an der Universität. Ich habe Literatur studiert, und sie gefiel mir sehr gut. Aber ich hatte keine Ahnung, was ich mit meinem Leben zu tun wollte. Wie viele Studenten von meiner Generation, habe ich einen schlechten Gebrauch meiner Zeit gemacht. Ich habe nicht so viel gelernt wie ich konnte. Jetzt bin ich gross, und ich schaue an meinen Studenten. Sehr oft studieren sie hier an dieser Universität, weil sie kostenlos ist. Meistenteils bezählt die Regierung die Kosten. Und das ist sehr gut, die Leute in meiner Stadt haben nicht so viel Geld und brauchen die Hilfe. Aber meine Universität bietet nur die Hauptfäche technologische, und wir haben viele Studenten die sich für die Künste, die Literatur, die Philosophie, usw., interessieren. Sie studieren hier nur weil sie kostenlos ist, oder für den Druck ihrer Familie. Und das finde ich ein bischen traurig. Und Ihr? Habt Ihr an der Universität studiert? Warum oder warum nicht?February 6, 201341
