Entspannungsphase

Otherwise known as the Pre-Italy and Eastern European Roadtrip Round-Up

Yay! Finals are over! Happy Entspannungsphase to all! (More Cold War jokes.) Well, they have been over for a few days, but I didn't have anything interesting to report to you. Or I guess I wanted a few semi-interesting things to accumulate. Because otherwise there would have been a bunch of little blog posts like my last one and that just would have been sad. 

So with that said, I shall start with the sad part. Louise left Tübingen to go back to Belgium! :( We had a grand goodbye Kneipentour, which actually end up taking us to roughly 3 bars, because it was a Monday and so everything closed around midnight. But we found Last Resort, which stays open until 3AM on a slow day. So we got drinks and hot dogs (from the little hole-in-the-wall hot dog shop upstairs–nomz) and had a merry old time. But it was very sad saying goodbye. But at least she lives on this continent, and 6 hours is convenient enough. 

baby's first mac n' cheese

Then there was Tuesday. On Tuesday, I spent most of the day grocery shopping or watching Arrow, because on Tuesday night, it was Mac-n'-Cheese-Abendessen night. I had realized that the German Gymnasium students in my conversation group had never had (in some cases never heard of) mac n' cheese. Which was a very sad thing that needed to be remedied. (Lasse had also never had mac n' cheese.) So I made a kilogram worth of mac n' cheese, and invited 5 German teenagers, 3 Americans (Hannah, Julius, and Yasmine), and 2 Norwegians (Lasse and Brian) and together we ate said kilo worth of homemade mac n' cheese and a bunch of chocolate chip cookies. (I wanted it to be a really American eve.) Because I am unorthodox, we also put bacon, barbecue sauce, and peas in it. I don't care what you haters (read Pookie and Dobby) say; it was delicious.

Then Wednesday, I went shopping with Hannah in Reutlingen, which is a town that about 10 minutes away from Tübingen by train and has a much bigger Altstadt with a few more shops...ok a lot more. (However, let's be real, Tübingen is so much better.) Then we got back, I went to Clever Fit for the first time in a while, watched more Arrow (it's so bad it's good), ate the last of the chicken that was in my fridge, and then went to Hannah's to chill and try some of the Germanized Chilean food she made. (Lolerskates empanadas with pizza dough and döner meat.) Then we went to Münzgasse to hang out with the rest of Deutsch Kompakt, because so many people are leaving. (So sad.) 

And now I am here, blogging to (for?–what is the appropriate preposition here?/English is silly) you lovely people. In a few (roughly 7) hours I leave for Italy, and begin the adventure that is now coming to be known as Entspannungsphase. Let the craziness begin. 

In any case, I may be falling off the grid for the while. But everyone needs that every now and again, right? So with that said, bis später, dudes.

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”  –Herman Melville, Moby Dick