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.