When I woke up the next day, there were trees everywhere down the street with hearts in them displaying a girl's name. I went to AIB to study for the hardest test of the week. I'm dead serious. It was a national holiday and I went to school to study. Even the building wasn't open! I met up with some people, but we couldn't get into the facilities because it was locked. Luckily our teacher came in so she could answer any questions we might have and was able to let us in. Over the course of a few hours, more people started trickling in, but we didn't have the heart to study. Instead we realized that we were the only group in the building that had bars on the windows. It was like they were afraid that we would do something stupid, but not anyone else. The conversation devolved from there, and soon I was grabbing my camera so I could take the most accurate picture of our day possible.
A May Tree on my street.
The most accurate picture. There we are, studying, on a national holiday, longingly looking through the bars at the sunshine beyond our reach. It cave our teachers quite the laugh.
After showing our professor, we actually got down to studying a little bit. That only lasted so long though, and we decided that we wanted to see what was at the market place by the church. Right beside the church there were a lot of tents showing off handmade crafts and selling them. There were all sorts of cool things like stone carvings or handmade garden iron artworks. One person got an Ocarina that looked just like the Ocarina of time, another got a cool tie and a stamp with his first initial on it as well as some wax, a third bought some earrings as souvenirs, and I bought a present for my Nana. Everything was handmade and beautiful. Eventually we had to leave so we could study more.
Just one example of a guy doing his craft
The rest of the day was spent studying. I left that building at about 12:15 am and caught the night bus to my home. I woke up the next morning and left to go to school to study for my last final. I quickly went over all the things that I thought would be important, and when 11 came around, I sat down and started the test. Let me just tell you, signals really stinks when you don't really know what's happening, or have only and inkling of where to go and what to do. I turned in the test and went to the other room so all of the people who had finished could talk about it in true college student fashion. We conferred amongst ourselves, and all came up with different answers, which struck me a absolutely hilarious and I just had to laugh. When the time limit was up, we bombarded Sarah with questions and generally talked over each other for a bit before leaving to eat at the Mexican food place. Yes, we had Mexican food in Germany, and no, it wasn't as good as back home, but they had half-priced drinks and decent food that reminded us of home a little bit.
After that, I went to the craft fair and got myself a pair of twirlers that I will probably use to distract me whenever I'm bored. Lord knows that I borrowed Robert's twirlers for hours a day for over a week, so I think it was a good investment to get them relatively cheap over here. I also got an ocarina...and have since become obsessed with it. It's a transverse ocarina with 9 holes and a limited range, but the last few days have been a blast trying to figure out all the kinds of songs that I can play on it. Then I went back to school to work on the DHF that was due that night, mostly to focus on formatting and making sure the references were in the correct order. At about 5, a whole bunch of people from the other groups burst into the next room over (only separated by a curtain) and we got rather angry at them because they were so loud and we were still hard at work. It turns out that they were given permission to be there because our last final was technically done at 1 that day and no one knew that we still had a project to turn in.
Eventually they went away and we continued working until 6 when karaoke was finally set up. The karaoke system we used was good (a game) but the mics that we were given were super sensitive, but not sensitive at all...at the same time. It was weird to handle. We had an absolute blast though singing Disney songs and all sorts of oldies. Eventually we switched from the gaming console to the computer and just pulled up karaoke YouTube videos, which turned out to be just as good if not better than the game for the simple fact that there were no restrictions and everyone could belt out if they wanted to instead of giving the mic to one or two people. We sang for hours and eventually had to wrap everything up at about 9. Now at this point, you'd think that I'd go home right? Nah. Instead I played with my new ocarina and watched as a group of people played Catan while everyone else watched South Park and sipped at their drinks.
Dr. Wasser can really get into these things
Everyone else got excited too
And of course we all got crazier as the night went on
At about midnight, a group was going out to get more drinks and tried to get me to join them. I almost said no and was planning on catching the first night bus, but then I thought about the fact that it was officially summer and all my classes were done, and decided "why not? I won't be able to do this for another 8 months at least" and left with them. By the way, I'm officially a Junior, so I can do the Junior wildcat, which means I can finally whoop without getting into trouble with the upperclassmen. Anyway, we left and came back a little bit later, watched some more videos, and had a great time just hanging out. Eventually I left, but it was way too late to write anything and I ended up falling asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
The next day was chock full of stuff, so look forward to that tomorrow.
Thanks, and Gig 'Em. Whoop!
Erin Z
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