Achso, Freitag. Friday, a bunch of kids from Deutsch Kompakt went up to the 2nd level of Eugenstraße, all of two flights of stairs away from my apartment for some Finnish food, homemade pizzas, and salad. It was all very lovely and delicious. Afterwards, a group of us set out with some bottles of wine and made our way around Tübingen going from Froschgasse to various different bars and clubs. A few things, before starting our night at the bars, we stopped and got burritos and margaritas. It was awesome considering that we are roughly 2,000 some odd miles from Mexico. Afterwards, we went to a bar called Last Resort, which has really red walls and plays 70s and 80s rock music. I ended up talking with a German guy named Daniel, who was an exchange student at Tufts last year. Which was really nice, as he also feels a little 'Heimweh' for Tufts sometimes. Afterwards, we went to a club called Butterbrezeln, which played a combination of German music, old 90s rap, and reggae remixes. None of it made any sense.
Samstag: I woke up late, given the whole staying out rather late thing, and ended up just hanging out until roughly 4, when I went to check out a gym with Lasse and Gonzalo. It was incredibly nice, but also cost 40€ a month, and I am most certainly not a real person and therefore cannot afford it. Instead we took a bus up to Fichtenweg, way on the other side of Tübingen and on top of a bloody mountain. However, on top of this mountain is a beautiful place to run. We did a short run to Schloss Bebenhausen, which is such a cool place. You are running through the forest and then all of a sudden you happen upon an open field and then further down the valley is a small, small Dorf in the middle of the Schwäbische Alps, which is only comprised of old-style houses, a large church, and a monastery. So cool. Afterwards, we ran back to Fichtenweg and I caught a bus back to the Südstadt so I could shower before sushi eating. Now the only sushi places in Tübingen aren't really in Tübingen, so all 15-20 of us wandered for roughly 30 minutes west of the city to find Bistro Jap-Go, a restaurant self-described as a American Asian Pacific Fusion place. Really weird. Also rather fancy. My friend described it as the place to bring your mistress, because it's nice, but no one there is going to recognize you because it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. So we ended getting only a little sushi due to the price and then went back to Tübingen to buy cheap (but delicious) wine from the Rewe and get more burritos (nomz). Afterwards, we hung out in Münzgasse again and ended up calling it a night around 3:30.
Sonntag: I woke up late again but this time on account of the blinds being really awesome and keeping any form of light out. I did some laundry and homework, and around 3:30 made my way over to the Bibliothek to do some more studying for my Prüfung this morning. There, I met up with Theron and after minimal studying, we decided to meet our German friends, Anita, Regina, and Lulu in the park for a barbecue. I felt bad because I had no food to bring and there aren't any grocery stores open on Sundays, but Theron brought some vegetables, and they gave some steak, salad, and Nudelsalat. It was quite lovely. We spoke mostly in German, which is definitely helpful and I am starting to get a little bit better at speaking with them. However, some of what they say is a little hard to understand because of the Schwäbische accent. (Zum Beispiel, normally in 'high' German to say what are you doing you say: was machst du? In Schwäbisch, you'd say 'was machsch du?') But they are super nice and will repeat things and keep telling me how good my German is, which is always lovely to hear.
So yeah, I think that's about it from this end. The only other thing I can think of is the case of disappearing cookware from my kitchen, first the cutting board and now the pot. Which leave me with two skillets...and is rather irritating, because I think this means that I will have to actually buy my own cookware and then hoard it. Rawr.
OH, and this weekend I am going to OKTOBERFEST. Wooooo! I'll give more details later, but the most important detail is it's gonna be nutssssssss.
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