Love How I never wrote

So, remember how I was going to write while in Germany? That didn't happen.

Weekend Wonders

Saturday: I was supposed to go to this museum with the group but I decided to not set my alarm. Consequence: I selpt until 11. Oops. So then I spent the rest of the day with my mom who had come to visit me from Wittenberg. The weather wasn't good so we really just hung out a lot in the Hauptbahnhof. I know it sounds lame but it's actually a cool place because it's got like a mall in it and stuff. So we ate a Nordsee and hung out in the mall. Eventually we went to dinner at this Indian restaurant but it wasn't that good. I mean it was OK, but didn't really have that much flavor. The server was asking if it was too spicy and my mom and I were just like "No." Then we went back to the hotel and went to bed.

Sunday: I had to get up at 5. Yippy. We met at 7:30 at the stop on Goethestrasse. Yeah. Then we took a bus to a castle and toured there. Oh ya, this is an umbrella tour. Like seriously an umbrella tour as in the tour guide would hold up an umbrella so that we could find her. I hated it. It's like so embarrassing. We took a steamboat from the castle to the city. It took an hour and all I could think of was "I'm on a boat!" but no one else knew what I was talking about. Then the umbrella tour continued in the city for like an hour or an hour and a half. I don't really know.
Since they dragged us to Dresden I didn't get to go to church. The closest I got was going inside the Frauenkirche, which was cool, but not the same by any means. I can put some pictures up but not right now because I'm not on my computer.
Then we had free time. I went to the Hygiene Museum with some other people from the group. it was weird. They just had like really big models of organs and stuff. Then there was this special exhibit about war injuries that was more disturbing than anything. Urgh. *Shutter*
After the museum it was back to the Zwingerteich to get on the bus.
Then two hours on the bus back to Leipzig. When we got here, it was hailing really hard. Then the hail turned into pouring rain. It poured for like at least 10-15 minutes, maybe more, and then turned back into regular rain. My jeans were wet up to my knees and my shoes were completely soaked.
But I got home, chatted with Kristin on Facebook, called my dad to wish him a happy father's day, and then went to bed.

Now it's Tuesday. Ok, so I don't think the spell check thing really works on this. And I don't have mozilla on this computer so I don't have anything at all to check my spelling. Uh-oh.

LEIPSCH

Just kidding. Well, not really. Curious about how Leipzig's been so far? Read on, bud, read on.

So I got here on Saturday. My host is realy nice and made me dinner and stuff that day. The way the program is set up I get breakfast everyday too; which is pretty much awesome.

So on Sunday I only got to go to Sacrament meeting because our group was supposed to meet at noon. So imagine meeting a group of people for the first time in a city you've never been to. It wasn't that bad but kind of like, a little hard to figure out which group was which.

We went to lunch at the Auerbachskeller and then got the special tour down into the real part where Goethe used to hang. It was pretty cool. Then we went on a tour of the old city followed by a bus tour on a bus with broken air conditioning. It was to ridiculously hot in that thing.
Our school schedule had been varied. Sometime we spend the first 3 hours of class doing discussion groups, other times we have guest speakers who come and do presentations.

Tuesday I went to institute. There was only one class which is different than what I've experienced in Berlin and Stuttgart. It's also just in an apartment, which is also different because in Berlin it's in the Stake center and in Stuttgart it's in an old meeting house. I didn't have my scriptures with me but someone let me use their Bible so it was all good. Everyone was really nice. I talked with some of the missionaries afterward and did the whole "do you know____" and a couple of them knew some of the same people I do.

Oh gall. So one day I went to see this movie call Die Stimme des Adlers. It was made in Mongolia in Mongolian by a group of Swedish and German filmmakers. It's all about this boy who doesn't want to carry on the family tradition of being like and eagle hunter. He doesn't hunt eagles, just has one and then uses it to hunt. Make sense? Ya, not really. Afterward, the starring actor came and answered questions. Problem: he only speaks mongolian. Answer: German production team guy takes questions in German, translates them into English, and then another guy translates into Mongolian and then back. In a word: awesome.

Yesterday we went to the US consulate. Why? Because we were invited. Why did they invite us? I have no idea. We were supposed to just mix and mingle for two hours. It was like touture. Not helped by the fact that some people were getting a nice buzz from the free wine and it was really hot in there.

Anyway, I'm out. Stay tuned for more adventures from the Vaterland.

The End

Well friends, it's the end. It's finally arrived. I'll be checking out of my room in about 15 minutes and then heading to the train station. From there I'll take the train to Stuttgart where I'll change trains and keep going to Frankfurt am Main Flughafen. Once there I'll check my bags, go through security and wait for my flight to take off at 2. And then through the magic of television, (and the curvature of the earth and time zones) I'll get to San Francisco at 4. I'll be able to call everyone in my family anytime for free because we're all in. Heck ya!

It's been good, it's been bad, it's been stressful. But if I had to choose whether or not I'd do it over again, I would. And it'd be a blast all over.

I left SFO exactly 4 months ago. Crazy, eh?

Oh, I wrote my Didaktisierung last night and made a meager start on my portfolio but at least it's a start. oh, I need to put my splint in my backpack for sleeping on the plane. whoops. Man, that was almost very painful for my jaw.

I'm sad to leave but farely (is that the right one?) confidant that I'll come back. That's why I'll just say Aufwiedersehen Deutschland. Bis zum nächsten Mal.

BLAH

So I ended up going and turning in my mensakarte. I had like 12 euro on there and then the 5 euro deposite. So that was nice to get back. Then I had to go and print the native speaker judgment tests. It ended up costing 12 euro because I printed more than 100 pages. Yikes. I totally got a receipt and want to see if I can get reimbursed for it.

Now I'm just writing this really quickly before heading off to Stuttgart. Oh that reminds me, I need to look at tariff charges. I think it's going to be cheaper for me to buy a Tageskarte for the whole network than to pay for Herrenberg-Hbf and back. Lemme see... HAHA, ya it is. It's 11.50 for the whole network and 12.60 for there and back. Save me an euro. Wha whoo!!

I haven't decided if I'll stay for institute or not. I want to to be like social and stuff but I have to pack and clean and still write a lesson plan for my class as an example and then also write the paper summary thing. I want to do all that before I leave so that I can just chill while I'm at home but I'll just have to see how things go.

I really hope I can fit everything into my suitcases in such a way that I won't have to pay any charges or throw anything away. And I don't want to have to shift stuff around because it's just a pain. But if I have to get rid of stuff the exercise ball and yoga mat are going first. I'm going to try and have all my books and papers in my backpack so that I can hopefully make weight.

So ya, that's my last day in Germany in a nut shell. Hektisch, na?

Printing

I'm trying to print stuff here at the Uni. You have to like send it to a copy machine that prints it out. Too bad the one in this room has a paper jam and i tried to send it to the other one but it didn't work. I tried to send it again. Now I'm off to the copy room to see if it works. Oh, I'm printing the native speaker judgement tests for the study thing. 21 pages long with 2 pages per sheet for 14 people. you do the math. I haven't. plus, i don't really know how much it costs per page. Oh and I only have 35 minutes to do all this because i need to give my mensakarte back to get my 5 euro deposite and the money off of it back. I gots to run. peace!

Random

So I was just sitting on my bed, like I do like all the time, eating a little Ritter Sport when I realized "Hey, I didn't use to like marzipan" but now I totally do! Speaking of Ritter Sport, Steffi's mom works for Ritter Sport and they get this stuff that's better than Nutella. Yes, I said it. I had it on Saturday and it was amazing. You know the nougat kind? Ya, it was like a softer form of the nougat from the inside. And only employee's get it.