Weekend in Cologne

Hello everybody!! Its 10:33 am over where I am on a cold and cloudy tuesday morning, which in comparison to what you all are having over in wisconsin is still very cold. But no matter what the weather I still have so much to tell you about my first weekend travelling to a different city and this weekend it was Cologne! Now of course friday we had class and all, but when all you can think about is travelling to a new city and experiencing all these new things, you dont really pay attention in class at all! The train ride there wasn't anything special and it was a 3 hour train ride and we left at four so it got dark half way through so we couldn't enjoy the scenery on the way there. But once we finally got there and was on our way to the hostel things got better. Colonge is soooooo big!! I mean I guess when you come from the town of Lake Mills really any city with large buildings and buses and trains is really big, but when we got to the hostel I was kind of skeptical, but thats just because ive never been in one, and the thought of sleeping in a room with other people is just kind of new for me, but then i found out that besides me and my two friends staying in the room two other people from my school were staying there, but there was this one Albanian guy that seriously was thee creepiest guy ive ever met. He was bald and had a huge scar on the back of his head and someone asked him where he got it and he responded with "If I told you Id have to kill you"....well isnt that just delightful. And he always came into the common room where we all were hanging out, but he wouldnt say anything, he would just sit with us and stare or be on cell phone, so lets just say i slept with all of my belongings with me in my bed. But other then that the rest of the people were seriously beyond cool and came from everyone on the globe! There was this german guy, but heres the catch, he spent a year in australia so he spoke english with an australian accent. There was these to metal heads one from norway and one from germany, that were drinking schnapps like it was water, and one of them took a shot by putting it in his hand, setting it on fire, and then just drinking it out of his hand and then the rest of the schnapps on his hand he just lit on fire! These guys were seriously crazy and they said the only way to open a beer is with their teeth so all night they were cracking bottles open with their mouth. There was a guy from australia, and these two guys from england, that just took over the party. This one James guy kept yelling "THERE ARE SO MANY GERMANS EVERYWHERE" haha and kept telling his joke "Wanna know the best thing about England is? AMERICA!!!" We started consuming adult beverages around 7 o clock playing card games, and bar dice and didnt end up leaving the hostel until around midnight and thats because we got kicked out for being to loud so at that point we went out to a club where I kept up with the party for a long time, but once 3 a.m. came around I was one dead battery, but all the germans around us were still going full force and i thought to myself "Man, these germans really know how to party all night" and I didnt end up getting to bed until 4 a.m. But I have to say hands down that this last weekend was one of the best weekends of my life haha. Oh and before any of this happend during the day we got up at 9 and just devoured the free breakfast they offered at the hostel and then from 10 to 3 we just walked around the entire city seeing the HUGE dome and the bridge with the locks on them which when someone is in love or when someone gets married they go to this bridge with a lock and with any design on it they want and they lock it on the bridge then through the key into the Rhine river which I think is pretty cool. And while we were on our adventure we came around the Berlin soccer team that was playing in Cologne that day and seriously they walked literally right passed us that I could reach out and touch them. Even though the last day there i felt myself getting sick and now today I have quite a cold, it was all worth it and I might be going down to Munich this weekend for, I hope, even more fun than I had this last weekend. It's just so crazy to be so far from home and go to all these places and meet all these people from around the world, that I may not ever see again, but its just so great that I got to meet them.

Oh and if you want a little look at what my weekend was kind of like here's this.