Tschüsee Anne!

I had the best teacher for my first two Volkschochschule classes, super lovely, patient, clear, fun, non-confrontational, everything one would want in a German teacher. My current teacher though is a bit less awesome. She tends to yell at people for things like not understanding her, asking a question, or saying good morning when walking in late. The saving grace of the class though is this adorable Dutch girl Anne who speaks what, to me, sounds like perfect German, lets me cheat off of her, and saves me from being called out on a million things I don't know. She also says funny things with great frequency. On the first day of class, the teacher made us all ask Anne questions about her home country and she fielded questions like "how much does marijuana cost there?" with ease. Sadly though, Anne got a new job so I'm on my own for the next month or so of class. To cheer myself up, here are some fun German words.

• Alptraum-i like this one for the surprise factor. Traum is dream, so it seems like an Alptraum would be something nice, like a dream about the Alps, but it's a nightmare.
• Chef-your Chef is just your boss, but you sound really important when you say things like, my chef stopped by my office today...
• bald-this is just funny in being a false cognate. It looks like hairless but just means soon. 
• Klappe-it's a lid or a flap. Shut up is "Halt die Klappe."
• umarmen-this is a great verb because um is around and arm is an arm, so around-arming is hugging
• Staubsauger-is a vacuum but literally translates to dust sucker. Anna taught me this one in a dialogue we did for the class about how we were going to clean our hypothetical apartment. I don't know as many words as her, so I just kept making ridiculous suggestions like "Let's get a cleaning lady" and "why don't you just do it?"
• Säuger- this is related to the last word, it kind of translates as suckers but means mammals. because we're milk suckers I guess. 
• Auspuff-Exhaust pipe on a car
• Schnauzer-Mustache. Sounds funny no?