Back to Germany. Part 2

The next day

The next day started as usual. My sister had an appointment to go to and she was meeting one of her friends. So that me and my mother were at home, doing some stuff. You know there’s this thing about leaving, you don’t want to think about it, I guess, because when you think about it, you just feel like you’re leaving something for good and you get all sentimental and stuff. Well, you can get those feelings whenever you leave some thing. You can even get that feeling in the mornings until going to work or university, I guess. That’s how it is. It’s something inevitable. I don’t know, maybe if you travel a lot, that feeling goes away, or maybe not. Gotta ask someone. So, if you are going somewhere, then you think about people that you are leaving and it’s kind of sad and you get sad, too.

Well, it was just a normal day, you know, the way it started. No one made any other fuss and it was just as simple as always. We just did that usual stuff, like, my mother usually drinks coffee in the morning and I usually do some warm-ups and then eat something like boiled egg or whatever, maybe some peanut butter. And there’s this TV on. To be honest, I don’t like when the TV is on, I usually don’t have it on, I don’t really like watching it. or maybe when I have it on, it’s muted, so that there’s just this screen and no sound. However, others watch TV a lot and it’s usually onwhen they are at home. They watch mostly the information and other things, too. Well, there are different series, now they have these Indian series and Turkish series and people just watch them day and night. Those series are just horrible, if you want to know the truth. And those TV commercials are just longer than the one piece of whatever they are showing us on TV. Well, everything’s just horrible on TV, if you ask me. I just like some of the channels and I know where something interesting for me is on and I watch them if I want to, however, I don’t often watch them either. I usually watch series on my laptop whenever I want to. Though sometimes it’s necessary to watch TV channels, because you get a lot of information from it, I mean, just by watching TV for even 5 or 10 minutes you can get so much information that you wouldn’t have even imagined.

Anyways, it was something around 11 o’clock in the morning when my sister went out. I asked her whether or not she wanted me to buy her some souvenirs and Churchkhela, as she had told me earlier that she wanted some, but she wasn’t really sure, so now she decided that she didn’t want any of those, so that I didn’t have to go outside anymore, because I would have to go to the Station Square if she had told me “yes” about that question and I would have to walk in that hotness and I kind of didn’t want that, I mean, who wants that, right?! So that, I was kind of glad that she didn’t want those stuff and I stayed home. And we had some eggplants in the fridge and some dried Bazhe and things for walnut-stuffed eggplant and I decided to prepare it, because my sister loves it and maybe she would want to eat some of them, and besides, every other member of our family loves those roasted eggplants with walnuts and it would be good to have them. In addition, those eggplants were not bought in supermarket, rather it was given to us by my aunt and uncle. They have many things grown in their place next to their vineyard. They also have delicious tomatoes, which they gave us, too, the other day, and they have great peaches and stuff there. It’s just fantastic how they do that. I was really thankful that they gave us all those things, you know. So that I sliced those eggplants, poured some salt on both sides and left it for 40 minutes or so, because that’s how my grandmother does it and that’s what I do, you know, so that the eggplants won’t have a bitter taste. Well, in the meantime, I boiled some water and added it to the dried Bazhe and mixed it, I also added some ground walnuts that I had, so that it would be enough for those eggplants and I used some spices, too, and it didn’t have any herbs, so that I chopped some parsley and coriander and added to the mixture, too. That was because Bazhe doesn’t need any herbs, however they use them with this eggplants dish, so that I used them, too. The hated part of preparing this dish is frying those eggplant slices. They need much oil and, of course, it needs some time to get fried and you have to be there and watch them and stuff like that. I’m just not really fond of that process, in fact, I don’t really like frying anything that needs much oil, for example, potatoes or fish. I just prefer boiling them, you know. And, well, boiling them is much healthier and good, if you want to know the truth. Anyways, when the fried eggplants were cool enough to touch them, I spread some Bazhe mixture on half of each of them and then folded each of them and put them into a container. Then it was time to put the container in the fridge and let it cool and get more delicious. Though my mother couldn’t help but to eat some of them until they were all done and stuff like that.

Well, then my sister came back, I guess, she was all tired and stuff because of walking all that way in that hot weather or something. Then she took her laptop again and was surfing the net, I guess. Then she thought that she would sleep for a little bit and then she wouldn’t sleep until her flight. Well, her flight was nearly on dawn, I mean, we had to be there at the airport at somewhere around 2 a.m. and the flight was on 4 a.m. or something. And so she did sleep for some time. And then I remembered that I had her CD of German classes and she had told me several times not to forget to give it back to her, as she would need it at college and, good thing, that I remembered. I had it in my laptop so that I took it out and put it near her laptop things, so that she would see it until leaving and take it.

Preparing pizza

It was something like 9 or 10 p.m. when she went out of the room and she was all excited and stuff and she wanted to bake that pizza that we bought. You know, she wasn’t that hungry other times and didn’t really want to eat pizza and she was kind of sad, that she may have bought it in vain as she would have to leave it here, and I know how much she wanted to eat it when we bought it, so that was the time when she felt like she wanted to eat that pizza, so that we took it out of the fridge and it was kind of strange, because it was not in the freezer _ my bad! Though there was nothing wrong with it. we put it out of the box and put it on a pan and then it was time to put some Pepperoni slices that we bought separately on them and my sister wanted to have some bell peppers on this pizza, too, so that we sliced some green bell peppers and put them on top of the pizza, too. It was not until later that I remembered that we had bought some pizza spice together earlier this summer and she really liked that thing and that I could use it for that pizza, too, however, I just remembered that the other day or something like that and that was too late, of course. Anyways, we put that pizza into the oven and it said that we should bake it on 180-210 degrees Celsius for about 10-12 minutes, so we did that. It had a pretty good smell, if you want to know the truth and those Pepperoni slices made this pizza taste really delicious, if you ask me. Well, it really is delicious. Actually, I don’t really love those saliamis and sausages and stuff like that, however all the other members of our family like it and always buy them and eat them. To be honest, it’s a really good thing if you are in a hurry or don’t want to bake or roast something or fry something or cook something, you know. So that you just slice it and eat it and that’s it! you have eaten your food and now you can go and do whatever it is that you want to do, you just don’t feel hungry anymore. So that’s pretty good idea, you might say. However, it’s not healthy eating and it’s not good to eat lots of them and every day and be on just them and not eat anything else besides sausages and stuff like that. My brother just loves those sausages and he always buys them and eats them with lots of bread and Ajika and Coca Cola. Well, at least, he used to. Now he’s been gone to Bulgaria for a couple of weeks and I don’t know whether he will continue eating sausages or not. But perhaps, he will do that again. Anyways, though I don’t really eat sausages, this Pepperoni stuff is pretty good and I can really enjoy them in my pizza, and with bread or something, too, I guess. It has this distinguished taste that I can’t resist, you know.

So, in a couple of minutes our pizza was ready and we took it out of the over and put it on the table and started cutting it. my sister said that this pizza was meant for two persons, however they probably meant it for not my type of person, or just really hungry two persons, I don’t know, because I only ate one slice of it that was 50 grams, I guess and didn’t really have much calories, as it said on the box of that pizza. So, when we started cutting it, my sister got the initiative and she wanted to cut it herself, so I let her. Though it was hot, I mean, we just took it out of the oven and, of course, it would be hot, however, my sister wanted it so badly that she cut this pizza herself and it came out eight slices. Well, we were four, so each of us could have two slices, however, I just ate one and the other ones were theirs, so they could decide who ate how many. Well, the pizza was pretty good and everyone liked it and there was this one piece of it left that no one ate it, I guess we were just thinking of others eating it. well, to be honest, it was my slice, I guess, I don’t know, but I had had enough with one slice, so…

Anyways, then there were calls on my sister’s phone, everyone saying goodbyes to her and stuff like that, I guess. Well, I could see her talking on the phone, but I didn’t listen to it, of course. Some were calling on my phone, too, asking when she was leaving and when the flight was and where she would be and so on and so forth.

Despite the fact that I was telling my sister to go ahead and sleep, she didn’t really want to sleep or she couldn’t sleep, so she was on Internet and then she got bored with it and we were joking about some things and stuff like that. I was really sleepy, if you want to know the truth, because I went to bed late and got up pretty early in the morning and it was already after midnight and my eyes were kind of closing, however, I couldn’t really sleep, because then I would wake up all in a bad mood and heavy and like heavily injured one, so that I was surfing the Internet and doing some stuff, sometimes writing these blogs and other things and sometimes talking to my sister, so that I was looking forward to 2 o’clock of the nightand that’s when we had to be ready and I would get energized by that time, I guess. And, of course, others were sleeping after long working day and it kind of made me want to sleep, but I changed my mind and stood my ground until 2 a.m. 

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