Pictures: Bad one of Kathi and I on my birthday at the Spielbank (casino)Next one is also my birthday...At the Mamut Hochzeitgarten in Kufstein Austria
Just read a little bit of my blog from highschool and 1st year of Uni. Haha...that was rather embarrasing. It seriously sounded like the diary of a 12 year old girl. Goodness gracious...I think we can safely say that I am over that now!
Things here have been nice (mostly because of the weather...awesome thunderstorms at night, but sunny, warm days)...but I'm keeping a very low profile until I go to Sverige in 8 days because it is so expensive. I spent a really lovely weekend with Sara in Regensburg. Hung out with Molly as well and I even made some new friends. A Scottish girl Kate, and an Irish girl Bebhinn. Both really cool. Sara and I hung out, and had a great conversation with everyone back at Sara's dorm about all things sexual. It was hysterical. Sara made us spaghetti which was really sweet, and we both wanted pinot noir so we bought a bottle earlier that day. It was a German (we were really surprised about that) pinot and was the color of a watered down red! It actually tasted OK, but the color was definitely a little weird. Later that night, we went to a party being held at a coffee shop (that was a little strange, but cool nevertheless) as it was Mark's going away shindig. It had been awhile since I had experienced hard alcohol, but with €1 shots that's what we were doing...and it was tequila. Quick question. Why do people like brown tequila more than clear? Or is that a Euro thing? I can do both just fine, but I think I would prefer clear for sure...it was interesting though because they served the brown with an orange slice and cinnamon sugar. Clear came with the standard lime. Hmm...The next day we woke up early, got breakfast with Molly at one of Regensburg's 1000 cute cafes, and then started packing up Sara's room. We made some pasta and cookies for Ben's BBQ later, and hung out with Thekla for awhile. Ben's BBQ was interesting...Grant was there, and the 4 Germans and the 4 english speakers just kind of did their own thing. I didn't feel much like talking to Ben's friends though because they thought everything I said was funny...and after a while I couldn't tell if they were laughing at my German or just at me being myself! Guess I am a hoot and a half to these Germans...It was a really good time though, and I ate far too much. Kate and Bebhinn even showed up to say hi which was nice. Said bye to Sara the next morning which was sad, but sounds like she will be back in Germany in no time. But Sara is truly a gem of a person. Just someone you can talk to, she's got a gorgeous voice as she is an opera singer, and she makes me food and let's me stay at her place whenever. I love Sara - such a good friend. I hope our paths cross sooner in Europe than in Colorado which sounds very likely. I would love to do another ausflug ('short trip' - I'm helping you learn Deutsch!) sometime this winter with Sara if she stays. Maybe southern Italy...Her family is from Sicily and I still really want to go to Jerusalem. I think she's been to Egypt though which means if she's got the stamp in her passport they won't let her in to Isreal. I guess I'll just have to actually talk that through with Sara!
Today I just hung out in the sun all day...That was it. I'm going to go for a run here in a little bit, but it's still pretty hot outside. And I just ate a lot. Never a good thing to do before running. Hopefully I'll get to meet up with Jess and Greg soon, but probably not until Thursday night or something. Thursday night I'm planning on staying in Munich, and dropping by the Schwedish Stammtisch (a stammtisch is a meet-up with beer) to hang out with some Swedes before I hang out with more Swedes the next day. But I leave super early on Friday...well, 9 o'clock. That's early enough, right?
Anyway...Where are we in the realm of updating about Euro adventures? I guess after Madrid...which would then be my birthday! I was a little bummed about spending my 21st here in Germany instead of in the states, but ended up having an awesome time anyway. On my birthday we first made our way to Austria to do a ropes course in the forest near Kuhlstein I think. It was a surprise for me, and was really perfect. I was surprised that it was difficult in some spots. It looks really easy, and granted we were doing the hard spots, but still. It was great because everyone was there! Evi (my favorite person ever) her boyfriend Wolfgang, Sybilla, Kathi, Ralph, and of course the Puhlmanns. Only Corinna and Haiko were missing! We then went back to Hartpenning and had some dinner and wine. Then Kathi, Ralph, and I got ready to go to the casino in Bad Wiesse which is about 15 minutes away on beautiful lake Tegernsee. What a fun night...I can't believe how different the casino environment here is than say, Las Vegas. It's very quiet in the slot machine room, and even quieter in the room with the card tables. We tried our hands at slots...I don't think I won a thing and quickly lost interest after something called 'Bavarian Jackpot' ate €20 in one go. We played some automatic roulette before donning our blazers and going upstairs to the game room. They gave us 3 champagne glasses for my birthday! Then I got another martini, and we browsed the tables. Everyone looked so serious and scary that I was hesitant to play blackjack. We decided to just do some roulette (which was really crowded) and we ended up making some money! It was great...I spoke in German the whole time which was cool because as an English speaker I hardly ever get away with that anywhere now. Well Kathi and I played well and made a profit of maybe €15. I was very nervous to play anything big after losing so much money at the slots...we think Ralph secretly gambled and lost some money because he was angry all of a sudden and wouldn't talk to us! Quite funny really...anyway, they gave me some champagne and a wallet in a to-go bag for my big 21st. (You have to be 21 to gamble here as well). What a nice time. Also on the running to do list: take Kathi out, and send something nice to Sara.
I was thinking of American politics today. Not sure I like Obama and I'm not ready for another GWB AKA McCain. I just wrote my dad an email...we'll see what he says. I'm still stuck on how much I liked Hillary. She really stuck it out, and NOT because she was trying to be a pain in the ass like everyone thought. Because she PROMISED that she would stay there for her voters until it was 100% clear she was done. How often do we see politicans making and keeping their promises these days? Honestly...We all could learn something from her. I thought about not voting, but realized that would be stupid. I might as well vote for Obama right? Despite my doubts about him, I am excited that we very well may have an African American as president. It would say so much about our future and our past too. I just think it would be so cool for America to be represented by an ethnic minority...a group so many people have not given credit to where it is due for years and years. Well that's enough political ranting...I should try to 'sober up' for running by going to the bathroom and trying to digest all my food I just ate.
Update: My dad of course wrote me the longest email in recored history about the election, but apparently he doesn't really like McCain either! Crazy as he is pretty die-hard republican. I just assumed that all republicans liked McCain, but I guess I'm wrong!
Ciao ciao! Von Monaco di Baveria!
Sean
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