Beste Zeit deines Lebens

Sorry about May... I kind of just took it easy last month and didn’t have much exciting news/ travel adventures to report. It looks as if my last 2 months (Is that REALLY all I have left???) will be a little more exciting.

Last Friday I hung out with Monica, her boyfriend, and his roommate. We went to the outlet mall in Metzingen for the afternoon. (I’m quite proud to say that I didn’t buy a single thing!) Once we got back to Tübingen, Alex (Monica’s boyfriend) made this really amazing Indian dish for dinner. It was nice to spend time with a group of Germans again, but also very mentally exhausting for me... Especially trying to listen to Daniel because he speaks REALLY fast. Even other Germans think he speaks too fast.

I woke up bright and early Saturday for the day trip to Basel, Switzerland. The exchange student group organized the trip so that it cost only 16 Euro per person! I can’t get over how cheap and quickly you can reach another country. Insane! Since I still have some Swiss-francs left, I decided I need to fit in another trip back to Switzerland before the end of the semester! Dad suggested exchanging it for Euros, but that’s a silly idea. (Sorry, Dad). I guess I will just have to suffer through a trip to Zurich or something in order to spend the rest of my Swiss-francs. ;)

Yesterday I went over to Alyssa’s to make travel plans and then to Stephanie’s for game night. We played Apples to Apples and enjoyed s’mores with a group of 4 Americans and 2 Germans. Making the s’mores turned out to be pretty entertaining. One of the German girl’s marshmallows caught on fire, and she started waving the stick around like crazy sending the flaming marshmallow flying through the air. The whole episode brought up the question: “I wonder if anyone has ever accidentally burned a WG down while trying to make s’mores?” Well, luckily, we didn’t burn anything down, and had an enjoyable evening. The game was in English, so now I’m on the look out for German games such as Äpfel zu Äpfeln and Scrabble auf Deutsch! I think those would make really good souvenirs!

As for my plans this week, thus far I intend to go to Bad Urach, Freiburg, Zurich, and see a German movie in the theater with Monica. Part of me wants to travel like crazy for my last two months abroad; and the other part of me wants to just stick around Tübingen and hang out with Germans, so I can improve my German as much as possible while I still can. I’ve heard that people who study abroad for only one semester start to feel really comfortable speaking German right around the time they have to leave! That’s probably going to happen to me…I need more time!!!