Benedikt Eickhoff

Album Published 22/05/2022

We played "Quick ten times I am" (8 new items)

We played "Quick 10 times I am" You should probably wait until you have more experience playing the game before doing the Quick 10 times I am challenge. In the mean time, try to practice a little bit everyday. I think you'll get a lot of use out of…

Album Published 21/05/2022

They did "Fritz and Louise" (6 new items)

They did "Fritz and Louise" and I went for some soft drinks. It was too early to sit down, but they went to the cigar counter and got a Cuban. How'd you like the man? He was all right. He was a real piece of work. Why do you say that? He told me that h…

Album Published 21/05/2022

Ma was in trouble (6 new items)

Ma was in trouble because she picked flowers on private property. The court was told that ma had gone to the garden of a house in the suburbs to pick flowers for dad. Ma had a dispute with the owner of the property, who was a gardener, over the flowers…

Album Published 19/05/2022

At home we put our dirty shoes outside (5 new items)

At home we put our dirty shoes outside. We only drink water from the tap. We don't eat dinner in front of the TV. We wash our hands before we eat. We eat at the table. We don't have "playdates" with friends. We play outside, not inside. We go to the p…

Album Published 19/05/2022

Dad wanted to visit Tuchos Rheinsberg (6 new items)

Dad wanted to visit Tucho's Rheinsberg. I was the only one who was interested. In the taxi, he kept repeating that I would have to be a brave boy, since we would never know what the place was like. I said, "How do you know I won't just run away?" "No…

Album Published 18/05/2022

Let's first try finding proper masks (9 new items)

Let's first try finding proper masks to cover our wound. "I'll go and get some." "No, no, no," I said. "I'll go." "You'll be fine," he said. "I'll be right back." I was still sitting on the bed, and I looked around for something to use as a bandage. …

Album Published 16/05/2022

Ma's was metamorph (2 new items)

Ma's was metamorph. She was with her flowers. I'd just returned to my cottage, my step became lighter, when I found a letter from someone called Bartram; he wanted me to give his mother a message from him. I went and found her outside, in the veranda.…

Album Published 16/05/2022

Some sort of memory built up (2 new items)

Some sort of memory built up. Ma said we're on track. I don't want to know. I'm going to be a baby for a while. I don't think she wants me to know, either. I was going to ask if I could help, but I guess she doesn't want that. She's going to be in cha…

Album Published 15/05/2022

Ma's was metamorph (7 new items)

Album Published 14/05/2022

Some sort of memory built up (6 new items)

Album Published 12/05/2022

I felt my part would be more of an intellectual (6 new items)

I felt my part would be more of an intellectual. I was a smart kid. I read a lot. I was a writer, too. I wrote articles for the school newspaper. I wrote a series of poems about my mother, who was dying of cancer. I took my mother out for a drive. The…

Album Published 12/05/2022

When we leave the cave (4 new items)

Ma said "...when we leave the cave they think we're priests." "No, I'm just a tourist," I say. "You're not a tourist," says Dad. "You are a man of the great city." "You're a tourist," says Ma. "No, I'm not," I say. "Why don't you go with us to the moun…

Album Published 11/05/2022

Dad wanted to keep being recognizable (4 new items)

Dad wanted to keep being recognizable for friends and family. That meant no more scraggly beard, but no shave, either. He looked like a teenager in high school. "He was my first boy," Ma told me. "I would've done anything for him." Ma would do anythin…

Album Published 10/05/2022