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JANUARY 2006

 

 

Maka and Olivier have left the house. We will miss them alot.

Most of January people were off to different places of travel. The most popular destination: Deustchland. Then we had some people go to the fromagerie some people like to call France - rumors of a German House "get-together" in an unknown place in the Gaullist state. Some people went down to Panama, and of course, someone had to stay and guard the fort. See more info below... 

 

Nemo likes to come out of his fishbowl in winter, which is fine with us because we're tired of dropping his food in the fishbowl all the time. Besides, he's good company during hard times. In this picture he's keeping company to Alexandre von Osterreich during his MP3 homework assignment.

Here's part of the crew opening some late packages, including a sweater for Jo, sexy white tennis shoes for Thomas, and a good old bottle of booze for our house pet, the fish. This fish (one hell of a catch by the way) came out of his bowl one winter and just stayed there, glued to the wall, with a bottle of booze. We consider it a reserve of food in case we run out of milk and bread. Honestly, we have a fish fetish in this house. Which is fine. Fish tastes good.
   

Michael Jackson says: Schlitz tastes good. Yes, the King of Pop speaks German.

What a happy-happy bunch! Here we have Andreas, Maka, Alex, Anil, Shimon (oh yea!) and Riiiiittis having a grand old time in the German House country club.

   

During the January break Riittis climbed the highest peak of Panama, Volcan Baru. Here she is, a Finnish atop the clouds, meditating about all the fun times she has had at the German House (known as "La German" down in Panama.)

Here we see Riitta again, having a well deserved ice desert. Yes, this picture was taken in Panama. If you look closely, you can see the humidity in the air. Luis is clearly very excited about the icy treat as well.

   

Here's the entire Panama expedition, looking retro in this rather discolored picture. Anna is pointing at the snake that had just gone into the bushes, a very colorful and poisonous one. And the rest of us, well, you know, we like the flowers.

Although Giovanni is not an official German House member, he has come to make revolution. Well, more likely, he came to learn revolution. The German House is a very egalitarian society: we all eat the same food, use the same bathrooms, and even share our occasional bad moods. Anyways, we caught a glimpse of the famous guerrillero while traversing the jungled highlands of Panama and he acquiesced to our picture demands.