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.