My Weekend!

Well I haven't really written anything here for quite some time! This weekend was pretty awesome! I'm completely exhausted but I suppose that's a good sign!

Friday:

It was Ola's birthday today so He and Brita had a party in their house. By the end of the night after drinking 8 bottles of Sekt, tasted the local wines and Kirsh wasser we decided the only logical thing to do was to learn Irish dancing! I tried to recall dances from Irish college. It was entire mayhem! Christie then taught us the basic movements of ballet and we both failed at doing the splits. Her trousers suffered, thankfully I was wearing a dress! At about 5 am, We decided to leave the party after singing the German, Irish, Swiss, Swedish and American national anthem and traditional songs! The bakery below their house had opened so we got Schinken-Kase Croissants straight from the oven which helped with the walk home in -10.

Saturday:

I woke up at 2, bought apples, went home and then went to Irina's for a movie night. We decided to get pizza and walked over to the take-away. I was in charge of talking as I had a little more German but after awhile it was just easier to speak English. The man at the counter was really interested in me.

Man: Where are you from?

Me: Ireland.

Man: IRELAND! Oh, it is so beautiful. I went there many many years ago.

Me: Oh lovely, where did you go?
Man: Edinburgh

Me: ...No, Edinburgh is in Scotland.
Man: Oh, sorry, sorry, I meant North Edinburgh.Me: ...

Man: So, are you from the West or North of Ireland?

Me: ...I'm from the East

Man: *confused face*

Me: Dublin

Man: *even more confused face*....No, I've never heard of it. Have you ever been to Scotland?

Me: Yes, I flew over there quite a few times.

Man: Flew? That's crazy, why didn't you just drive?

Me: Well, it's easier to fly than to drive to Belfast and get a ferry

Man: But Scotland and Ireland are attached

Me: Eh..no they're not.

Man: No, they are. *draws me a map*

Me: ...eh no. This is a real map.
Man: IRELAND IS AN ISLAND!!!

Sunday:

Irina's Birthday was on Wednesday but as her party she wanted to go up to Feldberg (The highest point in the Schwartzwald) and play in the snow and make snowmen or in our case Snowbunnies! It was amazing, there were metres of snow that you would fall waist high in. The amount of snow we got in our underwear and down our necks from a snowball fight enthusiast was not as much but it was great craic! There was an igloo that people had burrowed through a bank of snow to make! There were constant snow storms that would whip you in the face but all you had to do was turn away from it to stop that. We hide inside the branches of a huge pine tree during the worst of the snow. We're going to go back there next week and learn how to snow board/ski as it's only €60 or so!

It was a good weekend!

Tschus!

xHx