But anyways, with the exception of Friday (which entailed debauchery until 4AM at Prinz Karl, Top 10, and McDonalds), this weekend and today have been incredibly chill. In any case, on Saturday, I slept in until 1PM, which I believe is the first time I have been able to really sleep in since arriving here--and it was awesome. Afterwards, I hung out with the Tufts Kinder, made some dinner, and then met up with the other Deutsch Kompakt Leute in the Neckarmüller for some chilling and biers. It was a nice, relaxing evening.
Yesterday, I also slept in, then hung out in my room and read some of On the Road (also the first time I have been able to do that since being here). Around 3:30, I met up with Julius and we met a few others at the library to study for the test I had this morning. Well, it was a good effort, but not much studying was done. Instead, we found a movie that was playing at Blaue Brücke, a movie theatre in the nähe von Eugenstraße, at 6:45. We made our way over there, stopping for Döner along the way (nomz) and saw The World's End. So a few things about that. First, watching anything in German is kind of a trip. You have to resign yourself to the fact that you won't understand every word, like it is with watching movies in your native language, and accept that you should aim to just understand generally what is going on. Second, watching an American movie (in this particularly case the guys were supposed to have British accents) was really weird. Third, it was a movie about a bar crawl with robots. So I guess the German probably wasn't the weirdest part. Afterwards, I went back to my place and finally did some laundry. I finally figured out where to fill up my Mensakarte! Hurray for small victories. Fun facts about German laundry: the dryers suck, so everyone just has a clothesline apparatus (I am sorry--the German is making me forget words in English, and I, for the live of me, cannot remember this one). Why they don't make their dryers better is beyond me, but whatever.
So today: heute Morgan haben wir eine Prüfung. It was fairly easy (knock on wood), and I finished pretty early. I had forgotten to bring On the Road with me, today, however. So I went to Osiander, a bookstore that is pretty much everywhere in Tübingen. I thought I would buy a book in German, but I ended up buying The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. While I could have bought it in German, I didn't want to. I feel like Hemingway is one of those authors that needs to be read in English. I wouldn't want to lose the writing style--that's my favorite part. In any case, I had lunch in the Prinz Karl Mensa, which is infinitely better than the Wilhelmstraße Mensa and heretofore had not been open. In case you were wondering, I had Fleischkäse, which translates directly as meat cheese and looks like a slab of also sorts of meats mixed together. Despite that description, it was actually pretty good. Afterwards, I went to a cafe close to my class and ordered a coffee and read some Hemingway. Europe is a lovely place. More Europe being lovely: after class, a bunch of kids and myself went to the Neckarmüller to chat over a pint.And with that, I must bid you adieu. I am going to meet up with the Deutsch Kompakt Kinder and we are going to a "Sportkneipe" to watch the Premier League (Liverpool v. Swansea) and hang out. Should be a lovely time. Bis später, dudes.
PS This title needed to be updated, because of events. Events without any further context. More fun that way. :P
No comments:
Post a Comment