Travelog for: Froschi

later that morning loco frogo sat down with me and told me old stories about miss agi and her brother. loco frogo is miss agi's brother's toy. it is now about 20 years that he stays with them. when they were kids and the family went on holidays miss agi's brother always put his game boy and all the games into loco frogs back. it is very cuddly in there 
loco frogo told me that he once was called froschi, too. so i am probably named after him  that is nice to know. loco frogo is a really nice guy

so, now we are back in Bremen.

miss agi took us to her friend miss coco. we will stay here for a while.

so mono and me had to check out her place.

and straight away we found a nice place to hang around... 

miss coco is a very nice host. look, she prepared us this great breakfast. only for mono and me hmmmmm. YummY

since i am a very curious frog, mono and me had to check out miss coco's room 

we met this lovely chinese lady.

also we admired miss coco's beautiful orchid. miss agi already told us that her friend is very good in keeping orchids. the time mono and me have been in samara miss coco had birthday. so we got her a mini-orchid from costa rica as a present 

because of her birthday miss coco had lots of sweets at home.

maybe you've already noticed that i have a sweet tooth

i couldn't overcome the temptation and had to try the chocolates... YummY!!!

"moving, keep on moving" this title of supergras describes perfectly what i am just experiencing with miss agi.

she said this is the best way to get me used to travelling and visit different places. i should understand moving with her as a training for my journey.

but hey, miss agi: i am a brave, adventurous frog! find yourself a home and let me travel abroad to exciting and exotic places, please!

so, today we arrived at miss paula's home. i know her already because we have been travelling in costa rica together we're doing some flat-sitting here while miss paula is on holiday.

she has a nice red sofa and lots of books thus mono and me made ourselves comfortable and i was reading aloud a story to mono.

we also checked out miss paula's plants... lucky plants that i have a green thumb

oooooHHHHHHH!!!!! today miss agi promised us to take mono and me to a television show. depending on our seats maybe we will be on telly tonight

okay... so of course mono and me have to look pretty handsome in order to increase the chance of being seen on telly. we have to go to the hair dresser's!

at first i checked out the catalogs. i found a hair hairstyle. i am sure that will increase my coolness-factor

than the hair dresser checked my fur... she actually found only one hair that was worth be working on... my precious golden hair...

before she was going to cut it off i had to take a seat as any regular customer in front of the mirrow.

ooooHHHH!!! it was so sad to see my golden hair on the floor

now it was mono's turn. after checking the hair dresser's gear i decided i would do the job 

i mean, we are best friends! mono should have trust in me

okay, we both don't look like as the guy in the catalog... but i am sure we will make it on telly tonight!

before the show started we checked out the camera that was focusing right on our table... we tried to manipulate it... so it only would take pictures of us

oooHHH!!!! how exciting! sting was on this show. he was singing pretty cool! also he seems a nice guy concering the things he was talking about.

after the show i tried to ask sting if he would like to take me on his tour. i was so over-excited everything seemed so blured... also, there have been so many other people who wanted to talk to sting...

in the end mono and me took a seat on sting's place during the show

my green thumb is needed!

somehow miss paula has seemed to forget to take care of her plants... miss agi said that she is very much in love and has probably only her boy friend on her mind 

okay... i will let her go away with this and will take over with plant-rescueing

mono has proved to be a great assitant 

after i worked with a pair of scissors on mono's head successfully i didn't have any doubt why i shouldn't give this plant a good trim, too

do you know the tale of st. martin?
well, he was a roman soldier, long, long time ago! once, on a cold winter's night he shared his fancy cape with a poor beggar and since that night st. martin is a role model for a helpful person.

so on st. martin's day children running around with colourful lamps, ringing at foreign people's door, singing st. martin's songs and get sweets. it is kind of like american halloween.

miss agi and her friends are all a bit out of the right age for doing this st. martin singing and asking for sweets... but anyway... she wanted to show mono and we, what it is like. also mr. héc an mexican guy, didn't know anything about this german custom, so he had to be introduced to this cultural event, too

so we walked through the park, all together, and have been singing very loudly:

durch die straßen auf und nieder,
leuchten die laterne wieder,
rote, grüne, gelbe, blaue,
lieber martin komm und schaue.

wie die blumen in dem garten,
blühn laternen aller arten,
rote grüne, gelbe blaue,
lieber martin komm und schaue.

or:

laterne, laterne,
sonne, mond und sterne.
gehe aus das licht, gehe aus das licht,
aber nur meine liebe laterne nicht,
laterne, laterne.

or alternativly:

ich geh mit meiner laterne und meine laterne mit mir,
dort droben leuchten die sterne und unten leuchten wir.
das licht geht aus, wir gehen nach haus,
rabimmel, rabammel, rabum, bumbum.
das licht geht aus, wir gehen nach haus,
rambimmel, rabammel, rabum, bumbum.

it is almost like a magical trick.
as soon as you don't use the camara's flash, you only see the lamps floating through the darkness.

on this occation mr. héc told me that he is going on a holiday to las vegas very soon. 

at once i started to persuade him to let me join him!!! viva las vegas! 

mr. héc hesitated for a while. he actually doesn't like frogs

i tried to convince him that i am not an ordinary frog and maybe such a journey together with me would help him to overcome his problem with frogs 

another ordinary day in bremen... i wonder if mr. héc give me a call soon

while waiting for a message, mono and me jointed miss agi to university. now we both have to make sure miss agi gets her work done!

while she was busy we check out, what the others were working on. suddenly mono got very excited. a girl was writing her master thesis on costa rica. she told us that she has spend three months there to do some "field research" and learning about the identity of ticos and ticas.