Laundry, Exam, Spelling Issues, oh and Berlin

Before I begin, I would like to apologize for my last blog as it was brought to my attention by a certain someone named Gillster that I spelled "cementery" wrong. I'm pretty sure my English skills are deteriorating.

Okay, here we go. Picture this. I am currently sitting in my bed (very comfortable because of the thick mattress pad that Matat sent me) with my computer literally burning my legs because for some reason the battery gets flaming hot so I have to lift it up every once in a while so I don't get third degree burns. To my left is a chair with a pizza box, hot sauce, ranch and a coca-cola (don't judge). And all around me is a tent of clothes. When I say tent of clothes, I mean clothes hanging off of every cabinet door and regular door and radiator and shelf and hook and everything. Let me explain to you why I live in a hut made of sweatshirts, jeans and socks. I do not know how to work the drier. I woke up this morning at 5am to throw my laundry in because Sundays are very popular laundry days so it's impossible to get a machine. And when I woke up at 6am last week, the machines were already taken, so 5am it was. The cool thing is this- the washing machines are driers too! Very cool, but not. My laundry was in the drier for 2 hours. Usually in America if you keep your clothes in the drier for 2 hours, you might as well bust your Barbies out of the garage because they would all have new outfits. After 2 hours of drying, I felt confident that I finally mastered this evil machine. When I opened the washing machines/driers my clothes were steaming, 275 degrees scolding hot and most importantly soaking wet. Therefore, tent of clothes was yet again a necessity.


As some of you know, I made it all the way to Berlin last weekend. I uploaded a few pictures because let's be honest, pictures are worth a thousand words (or whatever the saying is in English). But just to summarize, the train ride to Berlin is only 2.5 hours so we got to Berlin on Friday night and left on Sunday night. We took a tour bus on Saturday because it was raining all day and it proved to be both very educational and convenient (plus we got free pop on the bus- what could be better than that?!). The city is probably the most organized and cleanest cities I have ever been to. The public transportation was amazing and the train stations sometimes confused me because I thought we had ended up at the airport (yup that's how fancy everything was!). We didn't get to visit museums because we weren't there for long, but Berlin is definitely a place that I want to visit again. Speaking of visiting Berlin again, many of you know that some of "The Girls" will be embarking on an adventure to Polska in February. This is my time to do a shout-out to Gill, Ditsch, T and Kasia! The girls are flying to Krakow where I will meet them at the end of February and then we will be flying to Poznan for a few days and then finishing off our trip in Berlin. I'm so excited they got everything figured out so quickly! I will keep you posted on our excitement levels about the trip as well as other details when it gets closer...might even do a countdown.  

TV Tower in the background

Can't remember the name of this one, but it's pretty!

American Sector, right by the Charlie Checkpoint museum

Part of the Berlin Wall

Alexanderplatz

Awesome fountain in the center of Santa's village

Our tour bus!

Under the Brandenburg Gate

Rieschtag

Checking out the map of course

The free drinks on the bus!

Holocaust memorial

The museum district

Berliner Dom. My favorite building in Berlin

East Side Gallery

Represent!

On our way back to Poznan!

On a different note, this past week was very college-like and involved lots of pizza, not as much exercise and a common sweatpants and sweatshirt outfit (not my gray suit though). I had a physiology exam on Friday that went very well. The professor that was administering the test, however, was probably THE most annoying person I had ever come in contact with. The woman would NOT stop saying how easy the test was. Now, I don't mean that she said it once just to boost our confidence levels, I mean she repeated it about 27 times before the test and anytime someone asked a question during the test, she continued to repeat it another 27 times. Needless to say, it was very annoying and next time I'm pretty sure I will be wearing ear plugs when I step into that classroom. The reason being, anytime someone says something is easy, I get this feeling of, "If I don't do well, I will be excommunicated from this world and laughed at for year." Well maybe not that extreme, but it just puts so much for pressure on me and I just don't like that.  

One last thing- I would like to make a HUGE announcement....drum roll please.
I have officially booked my ticket to go home December 16th until January 5th! I know everyone's very excited and probably doing cartwheels in front of their computer/iPad/blackberry/whatever-form-of-technology-I-don't-know screens. And be warned...it may take me a few days to polish up my English skills. In the meantime enjoy your weeks and get ready for a pre-Thanksgiving Day post. It will be epic. Peace!