Mom's friends

After a pretty relaxing day, my mom took Sina and I to one of her girlfriend's houses for dinner and drinks. If you think hanging out with your mom and her high school friends is tough, imagine sitting in on a reunion after being apart for more than 20 years and not understanding the language perfectly. When grown women gossip, tell jokes and talk over each other, they speak fast and loud. I got very good at tuning out whatever was happening and either talking to Sina or sipping on my drink. But, because Talheim is such a small town, most of my mom's friends knew Sina and her family and Sina loves to talk to anyone, so for most of the night my glass of "Sekt" was my best friend. It loosened me up quite a bit and I've found that when I have had a couple drinks my German is much, much better. By the end of the night, I was adding to the conversation and joking with my mom's old friends as well. They all liked to make a fuss over me and how big I had gotten since they had last seen pictures and how I looked so much like my mom when she was my age. Even in Germany, reunions are just as one would imagine.