Imagine yourself in Woods hall and all of a sudden Pitbull starts playing. Then everyone starts to do the awkward off beat two step I have previously mentioned. Well, that is the feeling I got at the international party I attended last week. After the same five painful songs had replayed about three times Morgan decided she had, had enough. She quickly unplugged the ipod and replaced it with her iphone. The room was then filled with mixed emotions. The outskirts of the room were either:
A. trying to have a conversation
B. wanting to join the fun, but dealing with fear of embarrassment
C. glaring at us
The center of the room was:
A. having a good dang time.
Everyone seemed to love Empire State of Mind by Jay Z. screaming out the only lyrics they knew,
"IN NEWWW YOOORRK!" I'm convinced they all secretly love the US of A.
That Friday night we went to a bar called Flannigans where we met up with a lot of our International friends. I also talked to these two older men from the U.S. who were in for the World Classic Baseball tournament, but had been in London working for the Olympics for the past 6 months. How cool!
Later that night I was attempting to get inside of my room when I realized I had locked myself out! Ahhhhh Sumer whyyyy? I walked down a flight of stairs and knocked on Whitney's door. Thankfully I have such great friends on this trip. She loaned me some pjs and we uncomfortably shared her already uncomfortable twin sized bed. The next morning I walked to the Hausmeister's office only to find that he wouldn't be in until Monday. I was so angry. We had already had plans to go to the World Classic Baseball Tournament so Whitney loaned me more clothes and we were on our way.
Whitney, Kristen, and I were the only ones who went and we met our lovely translators, Liza and Caroline there. I was trying to be positive and figured there wasn't anything I could do about my room until later anyways, so might as well just enjoy a long day of baseball. The first game was Czech vs Great Britain. GB won putting Czech out of the tournament because they had lost the previous day as well. It was a fun game but the real fun was that night when Germany played Canada. The stands were full by the start of the second game. Canada's men kept rounding the bases and Germany just couldn't seem to keep up. About halfway through the game I couldn't feel my feet or hands and the temperature continued to lower. It was freezing!! Caroline said that she would drive us back if we stayed until the end, and they would call a locksmith for me. So Whit and I (KP peace'd out after the first game) fought the cold and waited it out.
*It wasn't football, but it was still nice to watch some sports while here. For more info. on the baseball tournament is turning out, you can go to this link: http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/wbc/2013/schedule_and_tickets/
Almost midnight we finally make it to my building and then a waited a few for the locksmith to arrive. When she arrived we climbed the stairs to the top floor she pulled out a metal wire and within 5 seconds she had me in my room. My keys were laying right on my bed where I left them. Liza and Caroline talk to the women and she translates back to me that it is 75 euros! :o WHYY! A job that took her approximately 5 seconds plus the drive there was 75 euros which is about 95ish US dollars. I was mad, cold, sick, tired, but I was in my room and it wasn't long before I was fast asleep.
The next day I enjoyed my room by not leaving it. Lazy Sunday was just that...lazy! I caught up on homework and tv shows and enjoyed every moment of doing nothing.
I can some up the next few days by saying we had class, a hard German Politics test, and a Brewery tour.
The Brewery tour was pretty neat, but I had a massive head ache so that put a damper on the day. Here are some pics from the tour:
First process-- hot smelly room
That is a lot of bier!
Tour guide letting us all sample the bier straight from the barrel.
friends!
Kneitinger Bier-- no a fan.
Friday we took a day trip to Nürnberg, the second largest city in Bavaria. Our first stop was the Dokumentationszentrum (documentation center) museum. The area covers about 11 kilometres and was intended as an impressive backdrop for the Nazi party rallies staged there to demonstrate their power. Here are some photos:
tons and tons of interesting information
There were many films throughout the museum.
The interior remains of Congress Hall.
Hard to see through the glass, but this was a pretty long railroad track filled with cards that listed the names and dates of ones who lost their lives. There were 60,000 cards in the museum and each card represented 100.
After the museum we had a couple hours to walk around the city before our next tour. We window shopped and got some grub then met the rest of the group at the Albrecht Durer's House. He was an artist. I thought the tour was a bit strange and I entertained myself by taking pictures of everyone.
Ken!! HAHA and the man who decided to join our tour.
Kate decided to take a seat!
Our lovely tour guide.
Matt and Whit hahaha
She was having a blast.
So was John.
Mr. Albrecht and myself.
It was a very pretty city and you can always find more photos on my facebook page.
The train ride home was the most interesting train ride yet. Kristen and I were facing an older man. I still can't decide whether he was creepy or sweet. He spoke very little English but after telling KP he loved her, blowing me kissing, holding Morgans hard, and then offering KP a sausage jerky thing, he had everyone around us laughing.
Kristen's awkward smile.
Mr. unknown
Morgan's thinking "what the heck"
Today a lot of the crew went to Oktoberfest. Considering I spent a lot of money to get into my room, and I wasn't dying to go I decided to sit this one out. This week we only have two days of class and then Wednesday we are going to a winery and then we are off to Berlin for the weekend!! Until then that's all I have to catch ya up on! Until next time stay golden folks.
Sumer :)
P.S.
Quick shout out to my sisters of Alpha Omicron Pi for putting on yet another amazing Mr. MSU and raising so much money for the Arthritis Foundation. Congrats to this years Mr. MSU the one and only Jack Orem!!!
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." -Samuel Johnson
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