Walking through the backstreets of Neukolln Berlin the other day, I met an old Chinese man in his quaint shop filled with Buddhas and incense. I stumbled to speak to him in English, realised that he didn’t speak much, then tried to speak German – I don’t speak much, and ended up chatting in Chinese.. found our common ground.. it was such a funny moment to be speaking Mandarin in Germany!?

At dinner that night with my new housemate and her friends we celebrated her Birthday, by eating Greek food and drinking red wine (rottvien) at a local restaurant. I learnt some phrases from my new friends – (probably spelt wrong) ‘Kanst du mir bitte die rottvien geiben’, translates as ‘can you me please the red wine pass’. With all this learning and drinking I think I started to forget English.. and as the night went on I started speaking Greek too..’thai-thala nero parakalo’, ‘I would like water please’ who would’ve thought it..

One of my housemate’s friends is from Jordan, so as the night progressed we started talking about culture and language in Jordan and I realized I could speak a bit of Arabic too..’Marhaba, kayfa haluk?’ ‘hello, how are you?’ thanks to an old Libyan friend.. this is what I love about travelling – all the language and culture and playing with words.. and the funniest thing is when I get asked how to say something in English – my native tongue.. and can’t think of a word to fit.. or if I do.. how to use the word.. in what context, in what situation.. for example the other night I was out with a German friend and she said ‘oh he is so awful!!’ and I was laughing.. because what she meant was – here is a guy who is trying so hard to be cool and look good and by doing that he is making a fool of himself – the way he was dressed and the way he was acting.. so she said well how do you say that? if you don’t use ‘awful’? I had to really think about what she was meaning to say.. so I said ‘up-himself’ but no that’s slang.. ‘too cool for school’ again slang.. ‘try-hard’ slang.. hmmm this is harder than I thought.. ostentacious?? But would we ever use that? Is that even right?? And so the language lessons continue for me too!!

On the way to the restaurant we walked along the frozen river canal – it was so pretty even though it was frozen solid.. I was pondering walking over the water just to see if I could.. but there were too many holes in the ice and eventually I thought better of it.. although I could still throw a boot and see if it sinks??..

I’m sending you an invite to hear more stories and songs at the shows I have coming up in Germany and the UK. I realise some of you live far away but seeing as their are some 12,000 or so Aussies living in Berlin and many more in the UK- chances are if you’re one of my Aussie friends – by a few degrees of separation you probably know someone here – if you’re one of my European friends it may even be close enough for you to pop over and visit! OR you may know someone here that would like to come! if you do, please invite them for me pass on this email, facebook it.. whatever you like that would be awesome! EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS and your help is so appreciated!

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