we're not sentimental, we're just oil-filled machines

It's officially the beginning of the end. Of first semester that is. And while I still have another six months in Deutschland, many of my friends are leaving very soon, which makes me incredibly sad. Of course there are still adventures to be had as well, but for now, it's just a wee bit sentimental and very sad. So with that, I'll do a bit of a round-up, and then get all sappy on you guys. Get stoked.

So this past week has been a mess of trying to balance studying for history with seeing my friends that are leaving. Which means that I spend most of my days studying and then going to various dinners and parties at night. This past Wednesday, I finished my drum in art class, and then we had our last Stammtisch, which was a more low-key affair than usual but still in the Schloss Café. Then Thursday was last Donnerstagabend of the semester with Unterwegs, which was sad but at least there was really tasty (and free) food. Then Friday night was a Chinese New Year Party, which was thrown by Jiamin, who went all out and made delicious "gluttonous fermented rice dumplings" and had us each pick out our fortunes. Mine was I am going to "live longer forever." Which I guess is cool, immortality and all that. Then Saturday night I stayed in, did some studying, and after that ceased to be productive watched The Wolf of Wall Street. Which was an awesome and simultaneously appalling movie (if you know, you aren't some kind of money-obsessed, completely unempathetic "twisted Robin Hood" like the lovely main character Jordan Belfort). Then Sunday I studied all day and spent the night (early morning, really) watching the incredibly lame Super Bowl with all the other Americans from Deutsch Kompakt and a few Europeans. It was good fun and there was so much food (like stuffed peppers, nachos, wings, 12 avocados-worth of guacamole, potato skins, mashed potatoes as a by-product of said potato skins, and then beer, naturally). It was awesome. 

This is what 12 avocados-worth of guacamole looks like

So yeah, that's about all the things that have happened to me in the past week that have been fun. So sappy stuff now. I cannot believe that in less than a week first semester will be over. It's all gone by so fast. And it's even crazier that so many of my friends are returning to their respective countries and that I only have roughly six months left in this lovely country. But it's also super cool that within those next six months I can go and visit them. :D

And now with that: adventure time in a little more than a week! Hurrah! :D In this case, the Abenteuer starts in Italy. More specifically northern Italy in Bologne, Venice, Cinque Terre, and a few other places which I forget right now. Then onto Eastern Europe for my first real roadtrip. So excited. So in any case, bis später, gang.