luft balloons

this week i was planning on naming all my posts something german related. unfortunately i only know like 4 german words and all the other ones are like a million syllables long so i am not going to learn those either- for example- dorotheenstadtischer. come again? i even had to leave off some dotty things because quite frankly that is beyond my realm of comprehension and typing ability.

so yesterday when i left you i was in the midst of schipol airport in amsterdam sipping my starbucks and not understanding a word anyone said. then i got on my plane, where i witnessed a very indignant asian girl correct the nice british/czech (who knows?) dude speaking to her that she was not, in fact, japanese, but TAIWANEE!! calm it down sweet cheeks no need to be rude he was just making conversation. after some minor mechanical difficulties we were airborn and the pilot had apparently confused our 150 capacity passenger plane with an F-15 because we were doing all sorts of turns and shit that made me want to puke. then we landed and bounced and went all wonky and i nearly peed myself because i was convinced we were skidding off the runway. have i mentioned im slightly neurotic? anyways. i went through baggage claim, looked for customs, concluded that there was no customs and went on my way to meet kate in the airport.

I FINALLY MADE IT TO BERLIN. first we took a bus for like an hour, then got lunch in a really cool square thing with this old church that had been bombed in WWII and was all torn up. its this really old building right in the middle of a really modern area filled with stores and restaurants, fast food and everything but its just chillin, lookin all old. i think we are going to go into it later but i still had my bags and stuff so we couldnt really. after dropping stuff at kates apt/dorm room we made our way to the school which was an hour or so away and like 3 buses/trains. its all so confusing idk how anyone could ever get around this city because all the words look the same and the places do too. without kate i would probably end up in the red light district, if it exists, and have to whore myself out to make some dollas to get back home. im not against it. so at the school we got beer. yes. beer at school. HOW AWESOME IS THAT! apparently you are even allowed to drink in class. awesome. i hung out and kate did some work and then we came back to her apartment because i nearly passed out on the couches in the student lounge/beer drankin area.

last night was uneventful. we went to the getrankenmarkt or something like that but when you say it it sounds like "get drunk mart" and all they sell is booze so its appropriate. a case of 16 oz beers in glass bottles is 10 euro. its a steal!!! and the beer here is SOOOO good. lovin it. so we got some food, but passed on the drank, before going back and making dinner. well kate made dinner and i tried to keep from falling asleep at 6:30. i finally made it to 8:30 when we turned on something about mary and i fell asleep before the opening credits had finished. oops. oh well i slept for 10.5 hours and now im on berlin time and ready to paahty (i feel like thats how a germany would say it phonetically). time for breakfast and sightseeing and then tonight we are going to some bar that is awesomely amazing i hear. and in closing- HAMMELBRATEN.