I apologize for my recent absence to all my die hard fans out there! It's been an adventurous couple days, but the most adventurous of them all would have to be today of course my birthday of all days! Classes are going great and I have one of the coolest teachers that the whole class likes and makes class just that much better! Just yesterday for class we took a day trip around the city to the train station, the to the post office, then to the grocery store, and finally to lunch where we had to order in German! Now the trip might of sounded nice and care free with no troubles but no care free and trouble free does not go hand in hand with being Neal Fagan. So since I had prior troubles with buying tickets and by troubles I mean I spend 120 euros on tickets both on Monday when I needed tickets for Friday. Yeah.... I made the same face you are probably making right now after reading that. So almost 200 euros later I got my tickets to cologne this weekend so thank God for that! Next on our trouble train is the post office where I had a simple gift to send back home which is easy right?? Wrong.... I had fitted the gift in a medium box that I bought but it was over 1 kg which made it more expensive to send so she had advised to switch to a completely different box and re write all of the sending information, might I add I was the only person left to send something and the the group was waiting/yelling at me for taking so long but I finally got it sent out and the day the trouble train started back up towards the next stop, the grocery store! Now before I continue since I switched boxes I had this large box I had to carry around since i bought it so remember that. Now at the grocery store the teacher and given us a sheet of paper with questions on it and like a scavenger hunt we had to either ask or find all the answers with 3 teams of 3. So as soon as we started everyone's racing around and I had no idea what I had to find or how to find it so I'm walking aimlessly around the store who my large box and to maybe get one answer at least I get in line at the butcher to ask him a question on the sheet and as soon as it was my turn the guy up and leaves and goes where ever butchers go when they are trying to avoid me so that was fun. And at the end of the hunt my team mates could only stare at me with disappointment since their pages were. Filled and mine had only one answer on it...which I later found out was th wrong answer. So after we left the store we approached our final destination on the trouble train was our nice luncheon! Which actually the pace was actually really really cool the place from the outside was small but it went back so far and was the most warm feeling, quaint,and like hand made wood everywhere! And because it's Easter season they had eggs hanging from the ceiling everywhere! But backup the story! So we all get to our table and the waitress starts asking what we would like to drink now being the stingy guy I am I had water with me and wasnt originally gonna order anything to drink but I figure that might of been rude so as everyone is going around some people ordered mineral water which in Germany means water with carbonation in it so it's like soda water which is very much an acquired taste that I do not care for at all but at the time I didn't know which water was which so I of course say blankly "Mineral water, bitte!" and once she left we all started talking about which water was which and I find out I just ordered the type of water I don't like and everyone starts laughing at me. And once our magnificent waitress brought my water in a bottle and a cup my friend next to me poured the whole bottle in the glass so that I can thoroughly enjoy every last drop... And then after we all ordered the food started coming one by one and all I ordered was some eggs ,but I guess in Germany eggs take an ungodly long amount of time to be made because while everyone was already half done with their meal I finally got mine and was able to enjoy my meal with everyone. Now don't get me wrong I'm not complaining about moments like these cause as a matter of fact without moments like these I wouldn't have such great and comedic things to blog about!! SPEAKING of comedic things and coming back to today, my birthday, a number of funny and comedic things happens today startif with the wonderful bus strike we had today! I saw the sign last night that there would be no busses and thought man what are the chances that the one day they have a bus strike is the 20th anniversary of my birth. And so this morning as we are all sitting by the road waiting for a taxi at like 840 in the morning a bunch of us decide " you know what? Let's just walk!!" so we did....we walked 45 into town and made it to class around 930 but what made the walk so much better was the great morning we had and when we finally got to class my wonderful teacher put out 4 candles and got me a present and put up a banner saying happy birthday in german. And I had happy birthday sung to me in german, English, and Russian so I can say with a smile it's been a great birthday. But now it's time to walk home because the busses still are on strike so until next time! Stay golden all of you!!
Neal
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