2 posts tagged “dinner”

and then a four-layer pumpkin torte. my brother is a fan of kevin rose and yesterday on twitter kev (as i like to call him) mentioned how much he likes this dessert, so we (well, i) had to make it.

the crab cakes were pretty good, although they had to be heated up a bit in the microwave because i made them a bit too early and neglected to keep them warm (oopsie). the kevin rose dessert, as i like to call it, was also good, but i kinda put too much cool whip (err, cool Hwhip) on it, but that was easily corrected with a bit of scrapage. it was a bit too light, imho; the middle two layers (cream cheese and pumpkin) could have been a bit denser.

btw, the pie on the right was bakery-bought. (also delish)

well, i figured if i were to watch the movie again (and it HAS been in the back of my head to watch the movie again--but uhh, all the way through), i should do it with the people i'm going to miss the most. M and grzgrz had already seen the movie before, but neither G nor D had, so i figured it would be good. D drove me home to pick it up.

of course, being the good friend that i am, i warned them before it started that it would be a bit sad at the end. it wasn't really that bad, watching it with them. some of the sad parts they found a bit funny, so i wasn't too depressed during them, either. and it was really nice being able to share the movie with my friends. natch, at the end, G was crying a bit and D was sad, but yeah, i'm glad i watched it with them. i guess it really hit home a bit more now that we've realized that G will be leaving at the end of the month, which is less than three weeks away. :(

(note that i am listening to "no woman no cry" while i'm writing this since it was featured in the movie and because reggae has this inexplicable popularity in europe...*sniff*)

i guess there are two main themes from the movie that i really really identify with. as discussed before, one of them is this whole thing about what grzgrz calls post-erasmus depression ("google it", he said, and well, i did), where you miss everything about your year (well, in my case, my two years) abroad.

but another theme is that of being a european in this age of the european union--that xavier, though french, had taken on parts of his roommates and the people that he has met so that now he's part german, part danish, part english, etc. and that's what has happened to me. my eyes have been opened to so much that i wouldn't have been exposed to at home. so not only am i part german now, i'm part israeli, part polish, part romanian, part serbian, part syrian, part spanish, and so on. it warms my heart to think that i have been so lucky to have been able to have this experience. and i'm really going to miss it when i go home. *sniff* :(

Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost along the way.
In this great future, you can't forget your past; so dry your tears, I say.