Were you raised by wolves?

I am increasingly understanding every single note on PassiveAgressiveNotes.com. Well, the ones between housemates, anyway. I grow more and more frustrated every day that I live in this hovel of a flat, because there seems to be very little evidence of a standard of cleanliness, particularly in the kitchen. Only some of us actually wash up. Granted, I just left a frying pan in the sink, but that was because I didn't want to wash it while someone was in the shower lest their water run cold.

Honestly, it's probably good that my level of German is at the point that I almost cry in class at how poor it is, else I think I would be writing a whole lot of passive aggressive notes all over the flat.

A few weeks ago, I opened a communal drawer that used to house plastic plates/ cutlery/ paper serviettes/ general whatever, to find a HORRIBLE smell. It came from two eggplants in a bag, one of which had started ...melting. I don't know what the actual term for that is, I assume some sort of rotting, but seriously, who buys two eggplants and leaves them for so long that they turn to liquid?! And then puts more and more bags of potatoes in there (I looked the other day and there were three) and leaves them long enough that they sprout sprouts? I would've thrown them out as I did the leaking eggplant bag, but who knows, maybe someone ACTUALLY wants them.

The kitchen table always has stuff on it, the stove is filthy, despite getting cleaned at least once a week, and don't even get me started on all the food that is left lying around on the stove/ on the kitchen table. Sixty-three days, Sarah, only sixty-three more days.

At this point I broke and wrote a note (in German) that said 'NOT OK. I don't know who these belong to, but please clean them. You don't live alone; there are others who need water'. This was on Thursday. Some of those dishes are still in the sink (but I did take the note down after most of the dishes were washed).

Ploeck is a street in Heidelberg. This poster is pinned up on the notice board by the front door of the building. I found it amusing.

On a nicer note, this morning I woke to a picture message from Laura of a rainbow over North Tce. Later, when I left for my second class of the day, there was a great big rainbow all the way (only one, though :( ) across the sky. So I took a photo on my phone and sent it to her. While I was on the bus, I wanted to look at the photo again, and it turned out that the photos were saved next to each other...

This Regenbogen stretches from Adelaide to Heidelberg :)