Hello there!

The week started off well! I worked on my presentation for Romantic Poetry on Monday and presented it on Tuesday. I kicked ass, we all know I have no modesty so we'll forgive the previous comment! All the other presenters had their head in their sheets and made little effort so I took the room by storm :). My lecturer said it was the best presentation he had seen in a long time and he loved it! I'm coming to love the straight-forwardness of th Germans (well, as long as it goes in my favour).

So I was on a roll all of Tuesday and was quickly shot down in German class; I did not learn how to say the shop assistant sells flowers and my teacher takes no prisoners. But I got over my German failure. Then I went to the Mensa (which is the place all the kids are at...no really) to watch the election. They wouldn't let us in and kept saying we could go in but kept stopping us when we tried. Oh to speak German that would be nice. My American friend was short of taking out her passport and pull a "but I'm an American citizen" move but we decided to run to the Irish pub cuz we figured it was bound to have the elections on...we were wrong. The football was on and the pub was full of irate Americans who clearly thought the same thing! So we settled down for a drink and chatted about our different cultures (Swedish, American and Irish). I also found a picture of a sister of girls I went to school with which was a funny surprise. I tried to stay up and watch the elections but the fatigue of my big day hit hard at 12.30a.m! But YAY OBAMA!

Wednesday was interesting. In my American Identity class, we have a know it all girl who everyone hates and as they are Germans they show it! I love Germany. Everytime she speaks, the teacher rolls her eyes and the class sigh! She seemingly hasn't picked up on it! She lived in America for 4 months and now "knows" and "understands" Americans more than they know themselves. She checks her appearance in her laptop screen every five seconds.

Her only friend is a French guy from Marseilles who "loves the Irish because they are the Irish", I stopped listening to him after he asked me to speak Irish in an Irish accent. He wears Lacoste airtexs, marco polo pink shirts, pointy leather shoes, chinos and well fitted jackets. His hair is so perfectly part and his eyebrows are so well shaped that I look like a ship wreck beside him. Our "American" German and he talk all the way through class about "politics" and matters concerning "the interest of the class". My lecturer at one point said "why are you even in my class, you seem to know everything already so you canjust leave, you're wasting my time and your time" My class clapped (well, knocked on the table which we do instead).

I was made stand in the place of my lecturer in How to Read Images as I was "so good at finding meaning in paintings", so I was made stand there for 10 minutes straining my mind to find as many contrasts, meanings etc to Thomas Blackshear II's "Forgiven" painting which after 10minutes becomes quite hard.

I woke up this morning with "Spais" written on my neck, in pillow marks. It was written backwards so you could only see it in the mirrow. "Spáis" in Irish sorta means walk so I decided who ever carved into my neck was telling me something; so I went for a walk so I didn't anger it! So if you hold this very unattractive photo of my neck up to a mirror you can read "Spais" I'm petrified! :) (that really is an odd picture, I've my chin up my, neck doesn't had such a weird bulge!)

Thursday; I organised a gang to go see the new Bond movie however one only turned up! Faithful Jude! So we went for dinner, €4 for a MASSIVE bowl of pasta and then we had to wait and hour to see Quantum of Solace in English at 22.50pm! So I missed the last tram home but Jude walked back with me so it was all good. In the cinema, they sell 1.5ltrs of coke to go along with your gargantunan popcorn- i refrained but watching Jude try to carry the 1,5ltr cup was a funny sight to behold! The movie was ***, I won't ruin it for everyone so you can go and see it yourself!

Friday, Jude and I met up as we're going to go on a European adventure! We decided on Florence, Rome, Madrid, Cologne, Paris, MArseilles, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Prague and I think that's all. So we went to Deutsch Bahn and handed the unfortunate man the list and asked him to send us on the cheapest train to one of these places, we've got one or two deals but next week we're going to go harass Ryanair! Yay! SO there is an adventure in the making! There after we went for some fleischkas-wei-something which was very tasty. Being in an adventurous mood we went for a trip up to the lift into the Schwartzwald which was, of course closed but we found a playground which appeased us. The walk home was beautiful as we decided to shun the bus and walk through the amber trees! Then this evening I had a movie night with Kaelyn and sugared popcorn and sweets so my teeth are now decaying as we speak but I did it to myself so we can't complain!

Hope your weeks went well!

xHx