German is the main language spoken in the Dresden region, but you can hear a special dialect of German here called sächsisch. In the sächsisch dialect, some consonants, such as "t" are pronounced more like a "d" and "k" is pronounced more closely to a "g" sound.
I didn't travel to any different countries during my break, so I used euros to pay for things this entire week.
A one-liter bottle of water at my local supermarket, Rewe, costs .44 euro cents, which equals about .52 cents in U.S. dollars.
Germany has the tradition of afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen (kah-feh und koo-ken). This tradition involves drinking coffee (Kaffee) and eating cake (Kuchen) in the afternoon as a special weekly treat. This week I had the most delicious piece of pumpkin cheesecake and a large mug of Milchkaffee, which is coffee with lots of milk and foam.
