Day n' Night (Before Berlin)

The original goal was to leave for Berlin Friday after classes but the ticket price deal was only for Saturdays and Sundays. The ticket is called "Schoenes Wochenende" (beautiful weekend) and up to five people can split the £37 price and travel on trains all over Germany on that day. Another ticket to get home plus an £18 hostel stay = trip to Berlin costing £36.5!!!!

Friday was class as normal, then a group of us went to a Turkish restaurant for lunch, which brings me to a side note.
There - are - so - many DOENER shops here. Doener is almost like a gyro but its Turkish. Seriously, SERIOUSLY, 3 per block PER BLOCK. there are as many doener places as bakeries. Now THAT is really saying something.

After that everyone was pretty much like, well what are you doing, well i don't know what are you doing, and looking back, I should have seen this as the foreshadowing that it was, but more on that later. So the Berlin group of Marco, Adrian, Sinzi and I went and did some Berlin research, bought a map and went up to the Goethe Computer Lab to research and mark all the places we wanted to go. We wanted to be as prepared as possible because we were going to be crazy pressed for time.

At 5 the lab closed so the group, now with a Spaniard named Maria went off for coffee, where we sat forever with everyone saying, what do you want to do? idk, what do you want to do, idk what do you.... AGH!!! So then Maria says that she's meeting others in Sternchanze (Sternchanze is a part of the city essentially like one Mass street next to another to another to another, thus really hip and cool!) at 7. I suggest just going there instead of sitting in a coffee shop in the middle of central station. Everyone agrees, we get up and go, and when we deboard at Sternchanze, Maria is gone. Marco says she had to go home for something.... but wait, wasn't Maria the whole reason we were there? AGH. I really dislike it when people won't just SAY what they truly want to do. And for some reason, I always end up having to be the one that says it, and once you step up once, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever .... and ever they continue looking to you. After 30 minutes of more aimless wandering, i FINALLY squeeze an opinion out of Marco and he says he'd like a place with good ambiance, maybe some jazz. Bingo, that we can do and that we did. At 7 we met again with Maria, Elizabeth and Nancy. We stayed with them awhile, separated again and went and had some Italian dinner and talked about movies and culture differences.

~~Sinzi is from Romanian, which is also where Dracula was from. Never ending jokes come from that little tidbit. Sinzi also studies at Princeton in the US
~~Marco says its odd for him to hear people sneeze. In Costa Rica that is a NO-NO. You excuse yourself, leave the room, and sneeze there. Its okay to cough but you DO NOT SNEEZE. Man that's rough, sometimes they just sneak up on you!

We wandered more, then Sinzi and Marco headed home and Adrian came over for about an hour and we sat and talked but i was really tired with an early morning so he went home and I got ready for BERLINNNNNNN.

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