Meine Wochenende

My weekend:

On saturday there was a school field trip to leipzig. It wasnt mandatory, but it was only 15 euros for the train ticket, and we went to two museums, and had a tour so it was a pretty good deal. I went with my friend Sondi, and convinced our classmate Ted to go as well. The train ride was 3 hours long each way. we sat in a foursome with another guy Matin. we played card games and I spy in german, and also the 'who am i' game- where everyone writes the name of someone famous on a piece of paper and gives it to someone else. everyone sees everyone else's name, but you dont know who you are and you ask yes or no questions to figure out who you are, like i was Einstein, but i didnt know so i would ask 'am i a man?' and they would say yes. then i would ask 'am i alive?' and they would say no. stuff like that- so we played that a few times, then went on a tour of leipzig's altstadt (old town) which is only 1km x 1km.

the first museum we went to was a modern art museum which i could have spent all day in, but sadly we only had an hour. it was a little painful at times to go so quickly through the rooms, but what can you do? we had coffee at one of the oldest coffee houses in Europe, saw statues of Goethe (he was a student here) and Bach (he was a cantor at one of the churches). there are tons of little passageways, and a famous ratskeller (a pub) where someone (i forget who) got in a fight with his students and a magic guy turned him into a bird and he flew away before they got into trouble.

the second museum was mostly about the ddr years. it was really cool it had film clips and voice clips, pictures, ads, newspapers, books, a set up of what a east side appartment would look like, all sorts of stuff. it was really cool.

then we made our way home, another 3 hours on the train playing games- it was a great time. but i was wiped by the time i got home and passed out.

Sunday:
happy mothers day! and my 19th birthday! i went for a walk around Neukolln had some lunch, talked to the family who were at Dianne and Peter's house for a bit. then i went out for a nice birthday dinner with my friend Sondi. we walked around and then i went home and talked to my best friend Julia over skype. overall a pretty good day.

Monday:
today was a rainy sleepy day. My teacher is on vacation in france so we have a sub for the whole week. she is not such a bad teacher, but i really like my other teacher better. so does everyone else i think. this new teacher talkes a bit in english which is kinda weird for us because about 80% of the class is korean....so why english? it doesnt make sense. she should speak in german. and we spent about 20 minutes writing these dialogues with partners, but we never ended up presenting them...so we dont really know if we were correct, or if we could understand what other groups were doing...so it was kinda weird. but idk. it could be worse.