English

We are getting low on money (I was paid twice accidentally when I first came and they corrected it by suddenly not paying me for a month), but we wanted to do something for T, so we found a theater that is playing Indiana Jones in English in Hamburg and all went there on Saturday. It was a short walk from the train station and along the way we stopped at a bookstore that has a large English language section. There is a lot of English in advertisements here in Germany, especially hybrid part-English/part-German titles (and most of the music playing over the speakers in stores are American English songs including, rarely, country music). However, in the bookstore it seemed strange to see all those titles in English only. For some reason they had a UK flag up in the section but most of the books were American. They also had kids books that M and T flipped through. We went to the theater and bought tickets, they had assigned seats, then walked around the Rathaus to kill time and went back for the movie to start. The trailers were in German but the movie itself was in non-subtitled English! We had to cover M and T's eyes during a few parts but we all really enjoyed it and made it back to Ploen by a descent hour.