Germany 5

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Well lets see. I suppose just a quick update with whats happening in my life right now. Its May 2nd, so that means that Ive been here just a little over a month now, and I have to say that things are going better than I had expected them to. I mean when I arrived here a month ago, I had no clue as to what to expect and I was totally shitting bricks when I discovered that a) I might not be able to use my computer and or Xbox, and I was wondering just what the fuck I was supposed to do in the meantime if I couldn't do what I loved. Well to answer that question, I was delighted to discover that there's quite a bit to do in this sleepy little town called Ludwigsburg. But its not necessarily in Ludwigsburg, but transportation is basically accessible here, so its not really that serious. If I wanted to, I could hop the bus and head to Bruninger and go window shop for a while if I fancied it. Or I could outside and head down either direction for Favoritepark, and if I go south, it goes a little ways and stops at a beautiful lake where I could rent a boat and go lake ride for a while. Or head the other direction and it takes you to the palace, and everything down in that section. Or if I really wanted, I could hop the S bahn and go nearly anywhere in the near area including Bad Canstatt, and go to the Spring Festival. Or maybe to Stuttgart to the Hauptbahnof, where I could brow some vendors stores and get something to eat. Or in Stuttgart go to the Kino, and catch a movie to two. There's a lot to do in this little area, and it helps that's there so many different ways to get there. I mean I haven't even really got a chance to see everything in the area yet, but I'm working on that. I still haven't got the chance to go on that picnic that Einam and Idan keep talking about but Im still well get a chance to do it. And speaking of them, how bout they shocked the hell out of me when they informed me rather nonchalantly, that they're gonna take the rest of the week off from school and fly to Paris to go and visit France. That's pretty crucial if you ask me. I kinda wish they would've asked me to go with them, but then again, I didn't want to go in the first place. France isn't really my forte after all. I'm not dying to get to go there. Id be nice to see it and all, to say that I saw the Eiffel Tower and all that, but if I never get to go, I think Ill be alright. No, its London that's my main focus. And right now, Im telling myself that Im definitely gonna book a flight to London in June for the week that were off, cause I really want to see it. And Id like to the Swiss Alps while Im at. Michael informed me the other day, that the reason that we had assumed that he had disappeared off the face of the earth, was because he had jumped a train and went back to Switzerland to visit his family. Turns out the Swiss Alps are like three hours from here. That fact was like whoa to me. Ive always heard about them but Ive never seen them up close. I did get a good glimpse of them from the airplane when we were in the air over Stuttgart. But still I think it'd be cooler to be at the base of the things and say that Ive been to the Swiss Alps. That'd be hot as hell. Lets see. The coach in the sports department claims that hell give all the International Students free passes to use the sports room which is cool cause it saves us like 50 Euro a person, which is unheard of in the first place. At Pembroke we don't pay for it, which is cool cause were sure paying enough for tuition. I think that's enough to begin with. Speaking of the Broke, they'd be getting out for the summer right about now, which means that Finals are this week. Its funny but I had never even really thought about them the whole time I was here, I did respond to quite a few of the messages from my peoples at Da Broke, but seriously, I hadn't given much thought to them. And for that matter, I suddenly just got a knot in my stomach as I realized that I hadn't checked on Shon either. Im now seriously wondering if he managed to convince his Math teacher to let him through. I don't know. I really don't. But I do know that I need to find out soon. I want to know just as bad as Mom and them. Today I had the scampi incident with the pasta, and the restroom problem, just look at the pictures if you cant understand. Basically I couldn't go to the bathroom cause it was downstairs but finally I went after roaming through the entire restaurant and coming to the back. I broke off the faucet thing and almost flooded the place. I went and saw places that sell bongs and stuff like that. And ran into a Turkish festival of some kind. And that's basically what happened. Later.