I just got back from my wednesday soccer match and finished a mean tuna melt--let me tell you guys, i've developed some SKILLS in the tuna salad department. Anyhow, I'm playing on Mondays and Wednesdays with ALL BOYS (its amazing). It's funny though because I showed up to the first Monday game and the Trainer (coach/teacher who oversees things) asked to see my student i.d. and then asked me if I realized that there weren't many "Frauen" here. I said I realized that and I liked it because it would make me better and tried to explain to him that "Ich spiele fuer meine Uni in den USA" (I play for my university in the US) and his eyes got really big and he said "well I can see that you've certainly played before, I just wanted to make sure you knew." And then the conversation continued with me explaining that women's soccer is huge in the US and I can't understand why it's not here because the German women are so good!! Today I talked to my teammates about this and they were like "well yea, its like saying you play football in america!" aka the boys football. No worries, they're super nice to me and respect that I play!!
Anyhow I also told these guys about how I went to see Hertha BSC play on Saturday--that's the professional team here in Berlin--and told them how it was the craziest thing I'd ever seen and I just loved it and they said that Hertha was nothing special and that at the real games people are much more wild!!! I'm going to try and upload my photos so that you guys can see it, which, unfortunately, brings me to the next topic of my CRASHED COMPUTER>>>
My computer crashed about three weeks ago and my roommate studies what I think is the equivalent of German Computer Science or something so he brought it back to life but I lost everything and he rebooted it in German...My parents sent the wrong windows discs so I could choose whether I wanted my computer in French or German. Obviously I chose German but seriously some of the messages that pop up are uncomprehendable!! I meant to post on here a while before but FirstClass on the web is absolutely no fun and hopping around between my German or French roommates' computers was quite the task. In case you're not familiar, the y's and the z's on the german keyboards are mixed up, the @ sign is extremely hard to come by, as is capslock, etc. On the French keyboard you have to hold down shift to get any kind of number and then there's all these other combos and they would try to explain it to me and it was so frustrating!!!
In happier news--I went to Hamburg three weeks ago, Ireland/Dublin two weeks ago and then this past weekend my friend from home who's studying in Dublin came here. It's been hectic and exhausting but it was so much fun!! The weather here is absolutely incredible. I don't understand Celcius but I know that it's at least 70 F and sunny everyday and I've spent SO much time in the PARK! We've had a couple cookouts which have been amazing but there's a really cool park (parks are the thing here in Berlin) right by my house and I've been sunbathing some there...caution, large topless women also like to lurk there!! Just in case you all were worried, my sweating is in full force and I don't think there's anyway I'm going to make it until the end of July without buying a fan for my room...it's preparing me beautifully for preseason!! Also! there's no word in german for "dehydration!" They just say they didn't drink enough water, etc. I tried to explain that it's way more complicated then that and failed. You guys understand!! I feel like I could go on and on with fabulous things but I'll keep it to this: 1. FREE CONE DAY here was AWESOME--complete with a dj and blaring techno music in true German style 2. my good friend here found a CALIFORNIA BURRITO place RIGHT BY MY HOUSE!!!!!!!! I had a double class yesterday which means 4 hours, plus my other 2 hour class and basically I was ravenous afterwords and wanted nothing more than a burrito. Love it.
Ok I promise to try and post on here more often and to try and get my pictures up and going--don't forget that I lost a huge chunk--my mom had sent me a huge memory card and I have at least 1000 pictures to pull off of there...wish me luck! I wish all of you at swells luck with exams and hope you're getting pumped for the FITNESS PACKET!!! I've already joined the gym and started hunting for tracks...I think I'm just getting myself psyched to see all of you again!!
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p.s. the pictures are downloading, i'll make a separate post! <3
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