See you in Shell (and other bad Easter puns)

Hey gang, so the second full week of class is over, and on that front, there isn't much to report. All of my classes are good, and I think this semester is going to be both more interesting and challenging, what with the two seminars and all. Basically, I am starting to get back into the swing of things. 

On Wednesday afternoon, my friend Cornelius (remember the guy that I met in Paris?) came to visit. He was originally planning on attending university in Heidelberg for the Wintersemester, but for some reason changed his mind, and so he came to hang out and see all the wonderful things that Tübingen has to offer (which is a lot–Tübingen is pretty damn awesome).

To start, after finishing my James Bond class on Wednesday, the two of us went up the Schloss Café for Unterwegs Café English, which was fun, as per the usual. The next day, we walked around, saw pretty much all of Tübingen, went to the Schloss, rode on a Stockerkahn (think gondola) with Lisa, Lasse, and Lasse's two Norwegian friends, and then went to Kaffeestunde with Ute and the other Tufts kids. Then for dinner, we (and like 10 other people) did schwäbisches Essen at the Neckarmüller, because when there is a guest in town they must have schwäbisch food. Then we spent the night hang out with the Deutsch Kompaktlers (or I guess I should say the old Deutsch Kompaktlers–we're old now, how weird) and drinking on the church steps and then in Hannah's WG. Cornelius left pretty early the next morning to catch a train to Göttingen (another large university town) and then back to Berlin.

Both Friday and Saturday weren't terribly eventful. I did some lounging and a bunch of reading for class, and Lisa, Hannah, Sarah Müller, Lasse and I watched the first Spiderman (the Andrew Garfield one) in order to prepare everyone for the second one which was released recently.

Then Sunday, despite me not being religious, Easter Sunday was packed. I woke up early to make broccoli salad and do some more reading and then met up with Hannah at 13:30 to head up to Unterwegs brunch. Brunch was filled with food (pancakes, hashbrowns, and even grits–my first real grits) and games. We had a chocolate hunt, pin-the-tail-on-the-bunny, and various other egg-related games which got me a bit covered in hard-boiled egg. Not quite as bad as Erin and Beth though. At the end, they played Russian Roulette with eggs (half were boiled and half weren't and then they broke them over their heads). So that was awesome and hilarious. Also I got to see Germans try Peeps for the first time, which was pretty priceless. 

After all that shenanigans, Hannah and I made our way back to the Altstadt to commence with Easter dinner festivities. It was a very last minute decision that we made, but on Saturday, Lisa, Hannah, Lucia, and I decided to have a "Secret Easter Bunny" basket exchange, which is basically exactly like a Secret Santa. So we all made baskets, and exchanged them, which was quite fun. Then we continued with egg dyeing. Lasse showed up, and we used the "Ei da Vinci" egg-dyeing kit that I bought and made some beautiful eggs. 

Afterwards, we made a lovely Easter dinner of Maultaschen, eggs, onions, and zucchini, a cranberry walnut salad, and my broccoli salad. Then we watched the Prince of Egypt, and that was about Easter. 

Today, we also have the day off, because more Easter stuff and so we are going to do some preliminary checking out of Frühlingsfest and then go and see Spiderman 2 in English in Corso in Vaihingen, because there are no OV or OmU (Original Version or Originalfassung mit Untertitel–read not dubbed) in Tübingen. 

So yeah, that's about my week. Even more fun things to come, with Frühlingsfest and then my internship starting next Monday. Bis später, dudes!