lets get out of town and forever be free
Since my 21st birthday has been celebrated in various forms starting around the end of July, it made sense that I went out more Saturday night than I did Sunday (the actual day of birth). After a nice Saturday of sleeping, organizing things, and minimal work, Jacky and I rode into town to Cinemaxx, the big movie theatre here. I think there are two or three other Kinos here, but Cinemaxx is by far the largest and plays the most "Hollywood" movies. We had minimal success finding movie listings online, so we ended up going to Cinemaxx just because it was the only theatre's website that made any sense. We ended up watching Charlie und die Schokoladen Fabrik, which I had luckily seen and enjoyed previously (auf Englisch). It was fun seeing it the second time around, and noticing all that you really do lose in translation (most imported movies here are dubbed in German... so I can foresee watching Hollywood movies in German only to go home to realize wait, those actor's voices suddenly sound different). We tried to look around and gauge the German audience's reactions to things, but it was kind of hard to tell in the dark. I was most interested to see how the Germans reacted to the portrayl of Augustus Gloop, the fat German boy who is the first to go once the tour of the chocolate factory is underway. They seemed to take the american stereotyping of them as fat and gluttinous pretty well, I thought.
After the movie we rode into town to an Indischiner Imbiss. I don't believe I've ever had any Indian food, so I am glad to be broadening my horizons on a nearly daily basis (and by broadening I normally mean realizing how terrible and funny it is to be perpetually misunderstood).
I spent most of Sunday homeworking on and off. I wasn't as productive as I had hoped, I think primarily because I couldn't shake the feeling that it just wasn't right to be doing homework on my birthday (my own fault, though). I did discover that of the few shared music libraries I can see on iTunes, one of them had some good music, and so I made good use of that.
Class today felt better than previously, if only because our unit on German politics is coming to a close. We have a test on Thursday, and I just studied some with Kate, and hopefully will be able to get a group together to study the next two days because... God knows I have no idea what the hell is going on.
This afternoon Jacky and I went on another adventure, this time to pick up a package from my mom. The street we needed to get to had a big purple line between it and where we are, so I went to ask the kindly woman who works at the housing office here at the Siedlung. As usual it was all a little nebulous, but luckily Jacky was there to be picking up information as well. It was only when the woman said something about going over a mountain that I started getting worried.
As it turned out, the mountain wasn't so bad, and the ride to the alternative post office (I talked to Kate and apparently she was able to pick up her package at the post office in town... I have no idea why mine got sent out to the outskirts of town) was actually pretty nice. It was my first time taking in the sights of the industrial sector of Goettingen, and even though most industry really isn't so schoen, the area still retained an amazing amount of charm.
On the way back we found the famed Mini Mall grocery store, where I stocked up on (amongst other things) a plate of coconut (they have so many different kinds of fruit here... I think they are shipped from all over the continent, but still, a surprising amount of exotica), and a giant chocolate bar. Its surprising that my unhealthy attachment to chocolate hasn't lessened since I've been living in Germany... ahem. I have also been eating an enormous amount of bread-products here. In a lot of groceries and markets here, where in America we'd have Starbucks or some other coffee chain, they have little mini bakeries. That said, I'm still not too worried about about my massive bread/chocolate consumption, because if the past few days have been any indication, I think I am going to be doing enough bike riding to get me the mannliest thighs this side of the Weser.
After the movie we rode into town to an Indischiner Imbiss. I don't believe I've ever had any Indian food, so I am glad to be broadening my horizons on a nearly daily basis (and by broadening I normally mean realizing how terrible and funny it is to be perpetually misunderstood).
I spent most of Sunday homeworking on and off. I wasn't as productive as I had hoped, I think primarily because I couldn't shake the feeling that it just wasn't right to be doing homework on my birthday (my own fault, though). I did discover that of the few shared music libraries I can see on iTunes, one of them had some good music, and so I made good use of that.
Class today felt better than previously, if only because our unit on German politics is coming to a close. We have a test on Thursday, and I just studied some with Kate, and hopefully will be able to get a group together to study the next two days because... God knows I have no idea what the hell is going on.
This afternoon Jacky and I went on another adventure, this time to pick up a package from my mom. The street we needed to get to had a big purple line between it and where we are, so I went to ask the kindly woman who works at the housing office here at the Siedlung. As usual it was all a little nebulous, but luckily Jacky was there to be picking up information as well. It was only when the woman said something about going over a mountain that I started getting worried.
As it turned out, the mountain wasn't so bad, and the ride to the alternative post office (I talked to Kate and apparently she was able to pick up her package at the post office in town... I have no idea why mine got sent out to the outskirts of town) was actually pretty nice. It was my first time taking in the sights of the industrial sector of Goettingen, and even though most industry really isn't so schoen, the area still retained an amazing amount of charm.
On the way back we found the famed Mini Mall grocery store, where I stocked up on (amongst other things) a plate of coconut (they have so many different kinds of fruit here... I think they are shipped from all over the continent, but still, a surprising amount of exotica), and a giant chocolate bar. Its surprising that my unhealthy attachment to chocolate hasn't lessened since I've been living in Germany... ahem. I have also been eating an enormous amount of bread-products here. In a lot of groceries and markets here, where in America we'd have Starbucks or some other coffee chain, they have little mini bakeries. That said, I'm still not too worried about about my massive bread/chocolate consumption, because if the past few days have been any indication, I think I am going to be doing enough bike riding to get me the mannliest thighs this side of the Weser.
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