Amazing and Wonderful...Stuff

First off, hello to my dear and wonderful, loyal, fantastic readers. (I'm in a good mood. If you can't tell. ^_^)

Secondly, I suppose I should explain my title. I shall start where I left off.

The rest of last week went by rather boringly. Just a regular old Thursday-Friday kinda deal. English, art, chem, choir, drama (which is still epic and awesome by all definitions of the words), sleep, eating, etc. Then I went to a friend's birthday party which was quite enjoyable, except for the fact that, as with most social gatherings, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING. Which kind of makes things that should be exceedingly enjoyable rather miserable. I mean, it gets to a point where the only thing you hate more than not understanding (which you hate A LOT) is when people stop talking to each other and try to talk to you, to attempt to explain why they all just laughed for five minutes straight. Yeah...that kinda sucks. Really, it was fun, though.

On Sunday, I went to Maur Park, the huge monster awesome flea market that lives on Sundays at Maur Park in Berlin. When I say huge, I mean huge. We walked for about two hours and I don't think we covered more than half of the whole park. I had success, though. In Berlin, one must have scarves. It is a requirement. You can't look like a Berliner if you don't wear a scarf at least one day out of the week. It's like aliens - you can't be one if you don't have a big green head. So, since the only scarf I had was black and beige and therefore didn't go with much, I had to get another one. I'd been hunting for about a week and a half, but couldn't make up my mind. Well, I'm glad I couldn't. I found a great stall with a massive amount of scarves, and for incredibly cheap, too. Now my only regret is that I didn't get more. I also got a really nice owl necklace that has a watch on the owl's belly. :) I love Maurpark.

After that, I ended up going to meet up with the other exchange students. This was (as it ever is) not as easy as it sounds. By the time I was in their vicinity, they were in front of Reichstag. Now, this shouldn't have caused much trouble, considering in front of Reichstag is a very large, open grassed area where you can see for quite a while. Identifying a group of loud multi-language-speaking teenagers shouldn't be too hard. Unless it's the day of the Berlin Marathon, and all the runners and their families and friends are hanging around drinking beer and there are fences and tents set up everywhere and you can't see farther than ten feet in front of you. Then it's hard. Luckily, I saw some of the group as they were headed up to Hauptbahnhof to get some food. And so passed a good day, with exchange students and döner and other Berlin-y things. :)

Monday rolled around with me waking up positively thrilled at the prospect of a five hour English exam. Yes, I realize that this is not really something to be hating on because yes, English is my native language. However, who would want to sit in a room taking a test (of any sort) when you could be eating chocolate or reading or talking to random people? Definitely not me. It's a good thing English is my native language, though, because I managed to finish the test in two and a half hours, go get some food and read for an hour before my next, and final class of the day.

I had decided in advance that I was going to go get bubble tea after my test as a reward to myself for taking a test in Germany. Even if it was an English test. So I went and got my bubble tea, and then I went shopping as a reward to myself for understanding my bio class. Yes, you read that right, I UNDERSTOOD MY BIO CLASS. I'm quite pleased. Now, when I say that I understood, I mean that I understood most of the class. I got the gist, what we were talking about, how things work in a very general sense. It might also be that I understood it because I remember the topic from when I took bio three years ago in the States, but there is something to be said that I could make the connection. Well, I ran into one of my friends from school (because yes, I do have friends from school now) at one of the stores and we had a very enjoyable couple hours shopping together. :)

My rather average Tuesday got very good when I came home to find an email from Pottermore saying that my account is open!! So I've been very angrily writing this blog post during the times when Pottermore is deciding to be stupid and unavailable...

Tomorrow is a Rotary meeting and helping out at the Cambridge English course my awesome English teacher teaches. I get out of the chemistry equivalent of the English test I took yesterday for the English class, and it also gets me out of one hour of my three hour art class at the end of the day. Should be a good day. :)

Until later, my wonderful, loyal, fantastic readers.

Ich liebe Pferdchen!!

Yes, I have been a horrible blogger of late. No, I have not forgotten you (as though it surely seems that way). Yes, I have been ridiculously busy. No, I'm not fluent in German yet.

Here's the deal, my peeps. I had a Rotary meeting. I told them the story of the lady who asked me about the bus to Potsdam that I answered in German. In German. I felt like an idiot, because I KNOW I got some cases horribly wrong. In any case, I had a Rotary meeting.

And then I had Thursday. And then I had Friday. And after school on Friday (well, half of school on Friday) I went to Neuruppin. :) I wouldn't have had enough time to come home and take care of everything and then go back into Berlin after my last class, so my host mum wrote me a note so I could get OUT of my last class. Well, when I got back to the train station, I thought I had my train all figured out. Big surprise, I didn't. Then I tried again, and didn't succeed again. Then I found a friend from school. And we tried and failed three more times to find a train that would get us to Hauptbahnhof in time. But then we succeeded and I got there and met the other Berliners and we went to Neuruppin!!

That's us at dinner Friday night. Lots of bread was consumed. And chocolate and candy and junk food. Here's proof:

And then we went into the city/town/clumpofbuildings that is Neuruppin on Saturday morning. We split up into the Spanish/German group and the English group. Two guesses on which one I was in. :) Well, much hanging out with awesome people and jumping from clump (of people) to clump, and I was sort of adopted by the Brazilians. Who are awesome and epic in every way. Apparently I have a very Brazilian personality. 

That is a photo of us. Of most of us. :/ Isadora is missing. 

Saturday was epic dancing and fun-having. In other words, I had a neckache that only went away yesterday because I incorrectly whipped my hair back and forth. And then Sunday morning rolled around and we had to go home. :( That was not a very happy moment. 

But now I'm back and I've gotten over the fact that I won't see everyone again until the PARIS TRIP. Which is in November. And a very long time on a bus. But it's PARIS with THE OTHER EXCHANGE STUDENTS. We kinda rock. All you other Deutschland inbounds....1940 kicks butt. Be warned. I'm actually having a wall war with the guy from Texas right now. It's pretty epic. 

Umm....I had a really fantastic weekend. And this weekend is gonna be pretty good too, I think. Drama on Friday night, hanging with amigos on Saturday, and then...maybe more hanging with amigos on Sunday? I don't know yet. I just know that I'm pretty darn busy. As a closing, I shall include a photo of the entirety of the inbounds to D1940. Because we rock your socks off. And ours. Proof? My socks were on two seconds ago, now they're not.

Oh. And the title: It means I love little horses, because that's the best translation I could do from the Portuguese "Buseda Capaluda" (I hope that's how it's spelled) which is the 1940 theme song. :)

Disinclined to Title

Well...it's past time I've posted again. I'm sorry it's been so long, but really, nothing very fascinating has been happening. I've been getting accustomed to my schedule - both my weekly and daily schedules. I've already detailed them, though, and don't really feel like doing it again.

My days of going to Frohnau after school for German lessons are dwindling, however. This is something I am glad to report. While I am learning a lot at my lessons, it's a rather tiring trek, especially after classes. It's about an hour from school, and then the trip back home to Kladow takes just about an hour and a half. I've seen quite a few interesting characters, though. It's fun to sit on public transportation and watch people. There are three categories, I've discovered - those who try too hard (these are the ones you want to turn away from but can't because it's so....something), those who don't try hard enough, and those who are blessed enough to not fall into either of these categories. I always take my book and ipod, though, so I'm never bored.

This weekend is the first inbound orientation, for which I am SUPER PSYCHED. We're all shipping off to Neuruppin, a town about forty minutes outside of Berlin and are gonna be there for whole weekend and drive those people CRAZY. That's pretty much what happens any time a group of exchange students get together. Three of us on the U-Bahn results in angry looks and contemptuous glances. Imagine what will happen when fifty-odd 15-18 year olds descend on an innocent town? I can bet it's gonna be epic. Apparently we have to do something that's...our own? Like, playing an instrument or whatever. Well, since I don't have a cello and haven't played in eons (sadface) and I'm pretty much not good at anything else in that realm of possibilities, I'm going to perform a monologue.

Yep, I'm gonna kick some serious butt with some Moliere. This is the monologue I put together last year for auditions using pieces of dialogue from various characters from Moliere's The Misanthrope. It is the first monologue I have ever liked enough to remember enough of it that I don't have to start from scratch if I want to perform it again. I LOVE this monologue. It is the perfect monologue. It's not too long, not too short, extremely versatile, ambiguous in a gender-sense, and timeless. Well, there are a couple references that sort of hearken to the times of lords and ladies, but it is amazing. I think I could probably come up with five different ways to perform it. An identifiable but not glaring beginning, middle and end allow for a perfect transition in emotion that allow for a great range to be expressed. I am really excited to perform it again. Really, really excited. I recited it on the way from the Frohnau station to my counselor's house (his wife is my teacher). It's a really nice piece that also allows for a little bit of...anger management. A couple lines are very condescending. :)

Tomorrow I have a Rotary meeting. Which means getting all dressed up and pretty and then going to three hours of art (wearing heels, might I add) and then going back to the U-bahn station and then get off five stops later, and then try and find my way to a place I've never been. In heels. It's gonna be great. :) I think the heels are going to go for a ride and then get put on right outside the hotel. haha.

Well...gotta do some homework. Bis später. :)