I just discovered a website called nothingforungood.com, describing life in Germany from an american point of view. Although I’m from the UK and more or less grew up here in Germany, I can definitely still relate to a foreigners view of german quirks.

EDIT: British English is “the wrong kind of English“? I beg to differ, sir. When dealing with foreigners from any part of the world, whether they are from an english-speaking country or not, business will most likely be done in english. Germans learn “Oxford English” because it is spoken clearly and easy to understand, unlike most american dialects. Also, using american spelling in school does not get you bad marks. Mixing british and american spelling does.

Even though I am not immediately affected by the US presidential elections, I still felt extremely relieved this morning after hearing the results. In my opinion, Obama is the best president America and, by extension, the world could hope for. Go Obama!

Obama FTW!

Looks like I just had my first “UFO” experience. And I mean UFO as in “unidentified flying object” - not “WTF alien mothashipz!!1!”. About an hour ago, around midnight, I saw two seperate orange lights moving in a curved path across the sky. I saw both seperately about five minutes apart, each visible for about 20 seconds.

The lights were bright orange, no flashing or pulsating but flickering slightly like stars do. Definitely moving too fast to be airplanes but too slowly to be meteors, they moved across the sky at approximately the same speed as the faint specs of satellites when seen on a clear and dark night. I’m pretty sure both moved across the same stretch of sky, though I can’t be 100% sure because I saw the first one from a moving car. Both slowly faded out before disappearing.

Ruling out airplanes (too fast), helicopters (no noise at all) and meteors (too slow), the only rational theory I can come up with is that sunlight was being refracted through the atmosphere and happened to be reflecting off the solar panels of satellites at exactly the right angle for them to glow bright orange.

In any case, the experience was very weird indeed.