Hi guys!
I added a bunch of pictures to my album, including the ones from Oktoberfest! Check em out! And don't judge the drunken ones, it was Oktoberfest after all!
www.photobucket.com/smithjl2
Jess
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sonntag
Hallo Freunde,
So I'm sad to say that I'm blogging to you guys after a fairly uneventful week. I imagine a week like this means that I'm pretty well adapted and more like a resident than a tourist. Monday and Tuesday were pretty much recovering days from Oktoberfest. On Monday night we met Dr. Shaughnessy, he was in Germany with his wife the other Dr. Shaughnessy. They took us out for a beer, and that was really cool. Tuesday we went to a museum, and I checked out the Rhinepark. After that we hopped over to the Rhein Energie stadium to buy some goods for the SOCCER GAME!
I got to check out an FC Köln game on Wendesday. That was REALLY sweet! We played Wolfsburg, who apparently was the best team in the league last year. Pretty much everyone was expecting us to lose, but we pulled a win 3-2! It was sweet, definitely intense. They literally sang soccer songs the ENTIRE game! They make Steeler fans look like Seahawks fans. It's hilarious, I wish I knew all the songs, cuz we all had tons of energy and would have definitely sang along. After the game I met up with my host brother and his girlfriend and my host sister and they took me out to celebrate at a bar. They definitely know how to party on a Wednesday night haha. We had a great time!
Waking up Thursday really sucked, cuz we didn't get home til 2 AM, so when I got home from school Thursday I literally just crashed for 3 hours. That day I didn't do much of anything.
Friday we went to this place south of Bonn called Rolandseck, and they have a big art museum there. It was...interesting we'll say. A lot of the art was really abstract and I just didn't get it. The first floor we went to I liked better cuz the guy made colorful things, and played with flowers and stuff, but the second floor was just too weird for me. I don't understand how a large orange rounded rhombus in the middle of a room could be considered art, but then again I'm not an artist.
After being wildly inspired by the abstract art, I decided to go have chinese food, and later a beer with the friends that night. We all met at the Capitol (where else?) and that was pretty cool. Only a few of us were on hand this weekend, since the others headed to Oktoberfest. I spent pretty much all of Saturday and today doing homework, so after that nothing fun at all happened! I did get to talk to Bobby on Skype for about 2 hours while I was doing work, and I pet the cat for a while. The cat hung out in my room with me for 8 hours today. That was about as exciting as the day got!
This week should be rather mundane, but that's okay, because early Friday we're packing up for Amsterdam! I'm so excited! Talk to yinz soon!
Jess
So I'm sad to say that I'm blogging to you guys after a fairly uneventful week. I imagine a week like this means that I'm pretty well adapted and more like a resident than a tourist. Monday and Tuesday were pretty much recovering days from Oktoberfest. On Monday night we met Dr. Shaughnessy, he was in Germany with his wife the other Dr. Shaughnessy. They took us out for a beer, and that was really cool. Tuesday we went to a museum, and I checked out the Rhinepark. After that we hopped over to the Rhein Energie stadium to buy some goods for the SOCCER GAME!
I got to check out an FC Köln game on Wendesday. That was REALLY sweet! We played Wolfsburg, who apparently was the best team in the league last year. Pretty much everyone was expecting us to lose, but we pulled a win 3-2! It was sweet, definitely intense. They literally sang soccer songs the ENTIRE game! They make Steeler fans look like Seahawks fans. It's hilarious, I wish I knew all the songs, cuz we all had tons of energy and would have definitely sang along. After the game I met up with my host brother and his girlfriend and my host sister and they took me out to celebrate at a bar. They definitely know how to party on a Wednesday night haha. We had a great time!
Waking up Thursday really sucked, cuz we didn't get home til 2 AM, so when I got home from school Thursday I literally just crashed for 3 hours. That day I didn't do much of anything.
Friday we went to this place south of Bonn called Rolandseck, and they have a big art museum there. It was...interesting we'll say. A lot of the art was really abstract and I just didn't get it. The first floor we went to I liked better cuz the guy made colorful things, and played with flowers and stuff, but the second floor was just too weird for me. I don't understand how a large orange rounded rhombus in the middle of a room could be considered art, but then again I'm not an artist.
After being wildly inspired by the abstract art, I decided to go have chinese food, and later a beer with the friends that night. We all met at the Capitol (where else?) and that was pretty cool. Only a few of us were on hand this weekend, since the others headed to Oktoberfest. I spent pretty much all of Saturday and today doing homework, so after that nothing fun at all happened! I did get to talk to Bobby on Skype for about 2 hours while I was doing work, and I pet the cat for a while. The cat hung out in my room with me for 8 hours today. That was about as exciting as the day got!
This week should be rather mundane, but that's okay, because early Friday we're packing up for Amsterdam! I'm so excited! Talk to yinz soon!
Jess
Monday, September 21, 2009
Recovering from Oktoberfest...it might take a few days!
Oktoberfest was SWEET! We went on an excursion to Aachen on Friday with the group, and it was really cool...then we left a little bit early and hopped the train to Munich! At first I got on the wrong car, and I had to wait an hour before we got to Frankfurt and I could get to my right seat and find Emily. It was kinda nerve wracking and she was terrified that I hadn't made it on the train. Luckily I found my place and everything worked out. We met up with her friend Tori at the train station in Munich, she was letting us stay at her place this weekend. She was such a cool girl and she introduced us to a bunch of her friends over the weekend. It was sweet, they were from all over the place, like the UK and Australia. Everyone was super funny and nice.
So anyways, we got up early on Saturday, like at 6, and went to wait in line at the Hacker-Pschorr tent. We had to wait 2 hours for the tents to open, and we still weren't able to get a table inside. We ended up just sitting in the Biergarten which still pretty cool. Oktoberfest, by the way, is like Kennywood but with a zillion beer tents. It's SWEET. Anyways, I was wearing one of Tori's dirndels, but I didn't have the undershirt and Emily wanted to get one of her own, so we ended up leaving in the afternoon to go Dirndle shopping! I got myself a navy blue one that's really pretty. I'm so happy I ended up buying one. We went back to Oktoberfest, but it was super crowded (it was the first day), and most of our group had gone, so we went home and went to bed early.
Sunday we went back to Oktoberfest and we were able to cram into a table in the Hacker tent. It was soooo cool being inside. The music was awesome, and the atmosphere was great. People would get up on the table and chug their mas's and the whole tent would cheer them on. Just thinking about doing that makes me sick. I ended up drinking 4 mas's of beer that day which I later found out equivilates to 20 cologne beers. Needless to say I don't think I ever want to see a Hacker-Pschorr ever again. The ride home on the train was brutal. Oh, I also ate a half a chicken on Saturday and on Sunday. It was DELICIOUS!!! I've never had better chicken in my entire life! It was all seasoned and the skin was super crunchy and good! I loved that chicken. Basically all of Oktoberfest was sweet. I was really surprised how many people wore Dirndles and Lederhosen. EVERYONE was dressed up! The people that actually stuck out were the ones in plain clothes. I'm so glad I was able to be in costume too!
All in all Oktoberfest was definitely one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. I'm excited to be able to say that I have been there. I definitely want to go back someday, but I think I might need a few years to recoup from it! This week I'm pretty slammed with homework, but I'm excited because we have 2 museum excursions. I think I'm gonna take it easy this weekend, and maybe see if my host siblings want to hang out and do something. Next weekend I'm going to Amsterdam! I'm so excited. After this weekend I have a solid month of traveling pretty much! I'll have a lot to write about!
So anyways, we got up early on Saturday, like at 6, and went to wait in line at the Hacker-Pschorr tent. We had to wait 2 hours for the tents to open, and we still weren't able to get a table inside. We ended up just sitting in the Biergarten which still pretty cool. Oktoberfest, by the way, is like Kennywood but with a zillion beer tents. It's SWEET. Anyways, I was wearing one of Tori's dirndels, but I didn't have the undershirt and Emily wanted to get one of her own, so we ended up leaving in the afternoon to go Dirndle shopping! I got myself a navy blue one that's really pretty. I'm so happy I ended up buying one. We went back to Oktoberfest, but it was super crowded (it was the first day), and most of our group had gone, so we went home and went to bed early.
Sunday we went back to Oktoberfest and we were able to cram into a table in the Hacker tent. It was soooo cool being inside. The music was awesome, and the atmosphere was great. People would get up on the table and chug their mas's and the whole tent would cheer them on. Just thinking about doing that makes me sick. I ended up drinking 4 mas's of beer that day which I later found out equivilates to 20 cologne beers. Needless to say I don't think I ever want to see a Hacker-Pschorr ever again. The ride home on the train was brutal. Oh, I also ate a half a chicken on Saturday and on Sunday. It was DELICIOUS!!! I've never had better chicken in my entire life! It was all seasoned and the skin was super crunchy and good! I loved that chicken. Basically all of Oktoberfest was sweet. I was really surprised how many people wore Dirndles and Lederhosen. EVERYONE was dressed up! The people that actually stuck out were the ones in plain clothes. I'm so glad I was able to be in costume too!
All in all Oktoberfest was definitely one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. I'm excited to be able to say that I have been there. I definitely want to go back someday, but I think I might need a few years to recoup from it! This week I'm pretty slammed with homework, but I'm excited because we have 2 museum excursions. I think I'm gonna take it easy this weekend, and maybe see if my host siblings want to hang out and do something. Next weekend I'm going to Amsterdam! I'm so excited. After this weekend I have a solid month of traveling pretty much! I'll have a lot to write about!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Sunday 9-12
Hello! So right now I'm writing from my German living room and I'm watching FC Koeln play FC Shalke. Shalke is winning 2-1 but there's still 20 minutes left in the game. Hopefully Koeln comes back and wins! I'm excited because I get to go to a Bundesliga game on the 23rd!
This weekend was good, we went to Scholl Bruehl on Friday, and got done there pretty early, so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. The Hard Rock was pretty cool, it was smaller than normal, but I was dying for a bacon cheeseburger, and I got one there!
Friday night we met at the Capitol and there were a bunch of the kids from the Gymnasium there. The waitress at the Capitol officially recognizes us and knows our drink orders! I really love that little bar. We sat in the Biergarten that night and it was really nice. Then we went to a free dance club across the street. My friend talked my in to tequila, and that was pretty much the end of my night.
Because of the Tequila I couldn't move until around 2 PM yesterday. After I finally got moving and my headache and nausea went away I did some homework and made plans to go out again. Luckily everyone else cancelled because I really didn't want to go out again after the night before. Instead I stayed in and hung out with my host family, and it was really nice and a lot of fun! We watched some game show and some guy won a half a million euros. I was jealous.
Today I met Alex and Emily at Starbucks in Neumarkt, and we did a little bit of studying for our test. Then we went to Rudolphplatz and ate at the "American Sportsbar". I had a half rack of ribs. It was delicious! They had a bunch of NFL stuff on the walls and they had a vintage pic of the Buccaneers on their menus. No Steeler stuff. I was very dissappointed. Oh well. We watched Bremen vs. Hannover at the bar, and then FC Koeln came on so I wanted to come home and watch that. On the way home I saw a magical device called a Bier Bike. Basically there are 8 spots around a table and the people pedal and drink beer, and some guy steers. They were listening to die Prinzen. It was amazing :-) Tomorrow we start our regular school schedule, and our Lit class got cancelled, so I'll be done at Noon! First test on tuesday so I'll be studying my brains off!
-Jess
This weekend was good, we went to Scholl Bruehl on Friday, and got done there pretty early, so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. The Hard Rock was pretty cool, it was smaller than normal, but I was dying for a bacon cheeseburger, and I got one there!
Friday night we met at the Capitol and there were a bunch of the kids from the Gymnasium there. The waitress at the Capitol officially recognizes us and knows our drink orders! I really love that little bar. We sat in the Biergarten that night and it was really nice. Then we went to a free dance club across the street. My friend talked my in to tequila, and that was pretty much the end of my night.
Because of the Tequila I couldn't move until around 2 PM yesterday. After I finally got moving and my headache and nausea went away I did some homework and made plans to go out again. Luckily everyone else cancelled because I really didn't want to go out again after the night before. Instead I stayed in and hung out with my host family, and it was really nice and a lot of fun! We watched some game show and some guy won a half a million euros. I was jealous.
Today I met Alex and Emily at Starbucks in Neumarkt, and we did a little bit of studying for our test. Then we went to Rudolphplatz and ate at the "American Sportsbar". I had a half rack of ribs. It was delicious! They had a bunch of NFL stuff on the walls and they had a vintage pic of the Buccaneers on their menus. No Steeler stuff. I was very dissappointed. Oh well. We watched Bremen vs. Hannover at the bar, and then FC Koeln came on so I wanted to come home and watch that. On the way home I saw a magical device called a Bier Bike. Basically there are 8 spots around a table and the people pedal and drink beer, and some guy steers. They were listening to die Prinzen. It was amazing :-) Tomorrow we start our regular school schedule, and our Lit class got cancelled, so I'll be done at Noon! First test on tuesday so I'll be studying my brains off!
-Jess
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Thursday 9-10
Hello! Today is Thursday! Woo hoo! Unfortunately I caught myself a cold overnight, and I woke up with major sinus congestion and a sore throat. It was pretty nasty all day. I got home from school today and took a nap, but it was one of those sick naps where you're on the brink of a fever and are kinda tossing and turning. So anyways my host mom made me some peppermint tea, and after dinner some really good hot lemon carbonated stuff that had some medicine in it. I'm feeling a little better. I'm gonna take a nyquil soon and sleep it off.
Anyways, it was a pretty good week so far. I went to the Gruen Guertel on Monday which is a big park that goes around the city, and I went there Tuesday in between classes too. I also went to Happy Doener Monday for food and I went shopping in Neumarkt, but just bought a book. Wednesday I went to Campus Doener and the guys let us behind the counter to "help" make the Turkish Pizzas so I got some cool pictures of that.
Tuesday my line 9 train was down so I had to walk from school to Neumarkt Platz to grab the 1 train that would at least get me halfway home. I got off the train in Kalk Post because I knew there was a mall there. I figured I'd kill some time and see if the 9 would be running again. I ended up finding another book there that I wanted, and I also saw some cool FC Koeln tshirts, but they were too expensive. I went back down to the subway to find that the 9 still was out of commission, so I figured I'd take line 1 to a stop parallel with mine and maybe take a cab. Turns out this train stopped a little earlier than I had planned and we all had to get off. I decided to go to a little newsstand and ask the guy if Rath Heumar was too far of a walk. He didn't understand me at first, because apparently he was foreign too, but I got the message across and he let me know that there was a bus stop right across the road, and that bus would take me pretty close to my house. So I definitely lucked out. It would have been a pretty long walk. Anyways, the bus came like 5 minutes later, and dropped me off at Koenigsforst, and I walked home from there. All in all my little adventure took 2 and a half hours. I was fairly exhausted when I got home.
Last night I went out with my friend Emily and her host brother Kai, and we walked over a bridge to the Dom. It was really cool because there was some play going on and the Dom was all lit up in different colors. They had a stage and they were singing some song about how cool Cologne was. After that we grabbed a beer and walked to Rudolphplatz to go to a little pub. It was really nice and a lot of fun, but I didn't get to bed until really late and now I'm pretty tired. Come to think of it, I was running around in short sleeves yesterday and it was cold out so maybe that in addition to sleep deprivation is what led to me being sick!
Today we had a brunch with the German students learning English. The University of Cologne didn't have enough room for our program, so we actually rent the classrooms at a nearby high school, so the kids we were eating with were high school students. Their English put our German to shame I must say, but it was still a lot of fun, and they were all really nice kids. Actually I think that some of them are taking us to the bar tomorrow (the low drinking age continues to amaze me).
So anyway, tomorrow is Friday, and Friday is excursion day! Tomorrow we're going to see Schloss Bruehl, which is a palace between Cologne and Bonn. Bonn is really really close to Cologne and was the Capitol of West Germany during the split years. After that we're gonna visit the Hard Rock Cafe in Heumarkt and possibly eat there (because I'm dying for a legit bacon cheeseburger).
I'm not sure what the rest of the weekend holds really. I'll probably do some studying cuz I have my first test on Tuesday. Other than that, I got my whole fall trip booked and ready, so I'm definitely off to Mykonos, Athens, and London in just over a month! I'm really excited. I also found this really cool thing on Germanwings.com, which is a German airline, and it's called blind booking. Basically it's like a surprise vacation for the spontaneous (like me!) and you choose what you want out of your destination, such as culutre, party, shopping, beach, metropolis. Then you pay for your plane ticket (39.99 euro round trip). THEN they tell you where you're going! I think it's so cool! They give you a breakdown of possible destinations, which is nice. If I were to choose party for example, the possible destinations would include Barcelona, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Istanbul, Dublin, Budapest, etc. I think it's pretty neat. We are free Thanksgiving weekend so depending on how the rest of the trip goes I might talk to some of the other kids in the program and see if they'd be interested!
Anyways, that's about all I have for you today! I'm gonna curl up with my book in about 10 minutes and go to sleeeeeeeep. Goodnight!
Jess
Anyways, it was a pretty good week so far. I went to the Gruen Guertel on Monday which is a big park that goes around the city, and I went there Tuesday in between classes too. I also went to Happy Doener Monday for food and I went shopping in Neumarkt, but just bought a book. Wednesday I went to Campus Doener and the guys let us behind the counter to "help" make the Turkish Pizzas so I got some cool pictures of that.
Tuesday my line 9 train was down so I had to walk from school to Neumarkt Platz to grab the 1 train that would at least get me halfway home. I got off the train in Kalk Post because I knew there was a mall there. I figured I'd kill some time and see if the 9 would be running again. I ended up finding another book there that I wanted, and I also saw some cool FC Koeln tshirts, but they were too expensive. I went back down to the subway to find that the 9 still was out of commission, so I figured I'd take line 1 to a stop parallel with mine and maybe take a cab. Turns out this train stopped a little earlier than I had planned and we all had to get off. I decided to go to a little newsstand and ask the guy if Rath Heumar was too far of a walk. He didn't understand me at first, because apparently he was foreign too, but I got the message across and he let me know that there was a bus stop right across the road, and that bus would take me pretty close to my house. So I definitely lucked out. It would have been a pretty long walk. Anyways, the bus came like 5 minutes later, and dropped me off at Koenigsforst, and I walked home from there. All in all my little adventure took 2 and a half hours. I was fairly exhausted when I got home.
Last night I went out with my friend Emily and her host brother Kai, and we walked over a bridge to the Dom. It was really cool because there was some play going on and the Dom was all lit up in different colors. They had a stage and they were singing some song about how cool Cologne was. After that we grabbed a beer and walked to Rudolphplatz to go to a little pub. It was really nice and a lot of fun, but I didn't get to bed until really late and now I'm pretty tired. Come to think of it, I was running around in short sleeves yesterday and it was cold out so maybe that in addition to sleep deprivation is what led to me being sick!
Today we had a brunch with the German students learning English. The University of Cologne didn't have enough room for our program, so we actually rent the classrooms at a nearby high school, so the kids we were eating with were high school students. Their English put our German to shame I must say, but it was still a lot of fun, and they were all really nice kids. Actually I think that some of them are taking us to the bar tomorrow (the low drinking age continues to amaze me).
So anyway, tomorrow is Friday, and Friday is excursion day! Tomorrow we're going to see Schloss Bruehl, which is a palace between Cologne and Bonn. Bonn is really really close to Cologne and was the Capitol of West Germany during the split years. After that we're gonna visit the Hard Rock Cafe in Heumarkt and possibly eat there (because I'm dying for a legit bacon cheeseburger).
I'm not sure what the rest of the weekend holds really. I'll probably do some studying cuz I have my first test on Tuesday. Other than that, I got my whole fall trip booked and ready, so I'm definitely off to Mykonos, Athens, and London in just over a month! I'm really excited. I also found this really cool thing on Germanwings.com, which is a German airline, and it's called blind booking. Basically it's like a surprise vacation for the spontaneous (like me!) and you choose what you want out of your destination, such as culutre, party, shopping, beach, metropolis. Then you pay for your plane ticket (39.99 euro round trip). THEN they tell you where you're going! I think it's so cool! They give you a breakdown of possible destinations, which is nice. If I were to choose party for example, the possible destinations would include Barcelona, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Istanbul, Dublin, Budapest, etc. I think it's pretty neat. We are free Thanksgiving weekend so depending on how the rest of the trip goes I might talk to some of the other kids in the program and see if they'd be interested!
Anyways, that's about all I have for you today! I'm gonna curl up with my book in about 10 minutes and go to sleeeeeeeep. Goodnight!
Jess
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Pictures!
I'm finally getting my pictures up somewhere that isn't facebook so everyone can see them! You can check out my pictures at www.photobucket.com/smithjl2
Oh and I apologize, the pictures are in pretty much not in order at all, but I'm not sure how to fix that
P.S. Nevermind I figured it out, they should be in order now! Also, click slideshow in the top right corner, it makes it easier to see them
Oh and I apologize, the pictures are in pretty much not in order at all, but I'm not sure how to fix that
P.S. Nevermind I figured it out, they should be in order now! Also, click slideshow in the top right corner, it makes it easier to see them
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Saturday the 5th
Hello! So my first week of school is over, and I must say that I was overwhelmed at first by all the homework. Luckily the workload has died down a lot towards the end of the week, and I was able to have some free time! On Wednesday night I met some people in the city and we went and had ice cream at that ice cream place again. It was of course delicious. Thursday I stayed in and relaxed some, and yesterday we went on a Rhine river tour! It was really cool, on the way down we saw tons of Castles. First we drove south to Koblenz to see a fortress which was really neat. When we were there we had a lot of fun goofing off and pretending to take "senior pictures". So we situated ourselves in the cheesy positions like lean against the wall and look in the distance, lean on the stone pedestal, "letter jacket" over the shoulder. It was a lot of fun. Maybe we were a little conspicuous but oh well.
After we Koblenz we drove another hour or so to a really cute little tourist trap of a village called Ruedesheim. It was really nice, but everything was crazy expensive there. I got a pop for E1,50! On our way down we must have seen 15 castles. Every 5 minutes or so, someone on the bus was yelling "Schloss!!" which means castle. The bus ride was tons of fun too, cuz we had a Disney sing-a-long, which surprisingly everyone joined in on. We finished with a very interesting interpretation of how Bohemian Rhapsody is supposed to sound, which was hilarious.
Anyways, the purpose of this journey was to get on a boat, which we did in Ruedesheim. We got on the boat and ordered food, which pretty much everyone got Wienerschnitzel and Semi-dry white wine. Everything was delicious. The weather kinda sucked, it was rainy and cold, but it was all still a good time.
I went home and had dinner, then got ready and went out to our little pub that is officially now our regular spot. We had a really fun night, but my head was pounding this morning so I spent most of the day so far in bed. At some point I'm gonna become a normal person and get going for the day. Not sure what the plans are for tonight yet, but there was some mention of a party and Nick's house. I haven't heard anything since yesterday, so I'm not really sure. Either way it should be a fun Saturday night!
Oh I'm also really excited because I got a few trips booked officially! I have my reservations made to go to Amsterdam on October 2-4, and I also booked a flight to Greece for the first part of my free week! I'm flying into Mykonos on Sunday October 18th, and we're going to Athens on Tuesday. On Friday I'm going to fly to London and meet up with Uncle David. The Bucs and the Patriots are playing that Sunday! I'm really excited. I also have to find time to go to Paris, and I'm definitely going to Oktoberfest also, I'm just not positive which weekend. I was advised to avoid week 2, since all the Italian men go that week and get drunk and chase blondes. I'll probably try avoid that as best as possible. A bunch of the girls want to go to Prague the first full weekend of November, then head up to Berlin for November 9th, which is the 20th Anniversary of the falling of the wall. I definitely want to go to Berlin, and I always love Prague but I have to see how my rail pass is around that time. I also think we'll go to Brussels the 2 days before we leave for Berlin. So I guess I have a lot to look forward to this semester!
After we Koblenz we drove another hour or so to a really cute little tourist trap of a village called Ruedesheim. It was really nice, but everything was crazy expensive there. I got a pop for E1,50! On our way down we must have seen 15 castles. Every 5 minutes or so, someone on the bus was yelling "Schloss!!" which means castle. The bus ride was tons of fun too, cuz we had a Disney sing-a-long, which surprisingly everyone joined in on. We finished with a very interesting interpretation of how Bohemian Rhapsody is supposed to sound, which was hilarious.
Anyways, the purpose of this journey was to get on a boat, which we did in Ruedesheim. We got on the boat and ordered food, which pretty much everyone got Wienerschnitzel and Semi-dry white wine. Everything was delicious. The weather kinda sucked, it was rainy and cold, but it was all still a good time.
I went home and had dinner, then got ready and went out to our little pub that is officially now our regular spot. We had a really fun night, but my head was pounding this morning so I spent most of the day so far in bed. At some point I'm gonna become a normal person and get going for the day. Not sure what the plans are for tonight yet, but there was some mention of a party and Nick's house. I haven't heard anything since yesterday, so I'm not really sure. Either way it should be a fun Saturday night!
Oh I'm also really excited because I got a few trips booked officially! I have my reservations made to go to Amsterdam on October 2-4, and I also booked a flight to Greece for the first part of my free week! I'm flying into Mykonos on Sunday October 18th, and we're going to Athens on Tuesday. On Friday I'm going to fly to London and meet up with Uncle David. The Bucs and the Patriots are playing that Sunday! I'm really excited. I also have to find time to go to Paris, and I'm definitely going to Oktoberfest also, I'm just not positive which weekend. I was advised to avoid week 2, since all the Italian men go that week and get drunk and chase blondes. I'll probably try avoid that as best as possible. A bunch of the girls want to go to Prague the first full weekend of November, then head up to Berlin for November 9th, which is the 20th Anniversary of the falling of the wall. I definitely want to go to Berlin, and I always love Prague but I have to see how my rail pass is around that time. I also think we'll go to Brussels the 2 days before we leave for Berlin. So I guess I have a lot to look forward to this semester!
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