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The kitchen was warm and cozy. At the right corner was a dinning table with a corner bench seat and two chairs to the opposite side. The bench and the chairs were covered with flowered cushions which made the whole room feel vivacious.
The walls were mounted with a million cupboards. You know those cupboards with a semi transparent glass door where one can see the pile of Chinese cowrie cups and ceramic plates from outside? Yes, those ones.
The kind that we have in Kenya, staged in the living room and filled with utensils which only visitors are allowed to use.
She slid the sliding-glass door open and we landed in the living room. On the one side of the room there was a gigantic sofa with a dark green pattern and on the other side a mahogany wall unit with the TV-standing somewhere in the middle.
"This is where we relax at the end of the long days. Children are just allowed to watch `Unser Charlie´ and then they go to bed...."
"Das ist immer Dienstags." Karin who had joined us interrupted her. "Das ist so cool!" she continued. "Rose kuckst du mit uns?" she asked me.
"Ja." I had to keep my sentences really short, making conversation in this new and crazy language was no piece of cake.
"...Andreas and i then watch the 20:15 movie. You can join us if you want." Ines continued.
"Heeeut zu Taaage läuft nur Miiist!" Andreas added on his way to bring his coffee mug to the kitchen, talking really slow so that i could understand each word.
We left the living room through the second exit. There was the corridor ending to the main door. To the right the bathroom and the children room and to the left the parents room.
"This all that you will need for now," she said on her way back to the kitchen.
"Unfortunately we have to squeeze ourselves downstairs, since the upper floors are under renovation, your room included. I hope you don´t mind staying in the office for the mean while."
"Kein Problem." I said.
"You don´t talk much, do you?" She asked. (Soon enough she would realize how wrong she was!)
"Ines, you have to talk sloooowly....." Andreas told her as we joined him in the kitchen.
He had already put all sorts of stuff on the dinning table.
"Abrot!!!" He called out loud.
And in no time the kids had joined us.
"Georg, hast du Rose kennengelernt?" Ines asked the oldest son
"Hi, ich bin Georg." He said while jumping to the corner of the bench.
Before i could say `hi´ back, Mathias was pulling on my hand...
"Sitzt du neben mir Rose?"
"Nein, sie sitzt neben mir!" Karin protested.
"Sie kann zwischen euch beide sitzen," Ines told them
I sat in the middle of the two.
Was trinkst du gerne? Andreas asked me.
"Tee" i replied (That was a wrong answer)... Little did i know that there are around a million sorts of tea. All i knew from Kenya was Chai: end of story!
As i sat there between Karin and Mathias, and tried to figure out what kind of teas Andreas was reading for me, i could not help but ask myself; where is dinner? Where is the food?
Thanks for reading,
Have an amazingly blessed week. May everything that you plan to do become a success!
Lots of luv,
ItsRose_Beth
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