super friends: background

adventures in somebody else's home #4.

i live with the stinshoff family, which consists of a mom, susanne, a father, dieter, and three daughters: sarah (18), freddy (27) and janine (30). dieter and susanne are separated but still great friends, and he jus tlives down the street, so he comes over and eats dinner and hangs out all the time. freddy (short for fredrica?) and janine live elsewhere, and i rarely see them (janine was there when i moved in because she was living at home due to a broken leg and the subsequent immobility). anyway, kooky things happen all the time.

i feel like this german family isn't the most representative of german families, due to a few extenuating circumstances. the mom is a "therapist," for example. she works out of the home. across from my room, which is downstairs while the rest of the house is upstairs, is a big 'group therapy' room. for the first few sunday mornings i was here, i'd wake up to about a dozen german crazies outside my room, all wearing t-shirts and yoga pants. i have a sinking suspicion the type of therapy my host mom does is sort of like "sex therapy." don't want to go into the reasons now, but trust me.

also, and this might just be normal european stuff, but on a couple of occasinos i've walked into a common room to see my host mom a) with no top on, or b) with no pants on. she's addicted to eBay and frequently monitors her auctions while chainsmoking in her underwear in front of the computer. some might say "that's the life!" i would say "gwoss."

i mean, they're all great. unfortunately i can't think of any interesting anecdotes about anyone else now. maybe later.

indeed, later.

-chris dewitt