May 2012

Today was the third bank holiday this month (so much for Germany being workaholics), and as the weather was real nice, I went to the Werdersee with some Germans where there is a beach next to the river/lake. I even managed to get myself a sunburn! In fact, the weather has been really nice a while - this last week has been almost 30˚C everyday, and we've had numerous barbecues at the house for birthdays, work groups or just an excuse for a party! This month I have been working hard, and even with my week off this week, have managed to get many of my reports done, even though they are due in late June. In between this, Camilla held a birthday Party, where she made a lovely rainbow cake for us all...unluckily for her she invited some Mexicans, where the tradition is to push the birthday girl in the cake after she has blown it out...which they followed of course - receiving shocked faces from all the Europeans.

This week brings us to Eurovision, and as usual I made my predictions, and I was surprisingly accurate...17/20 semi final qualifiers precited correctly, as well as just a handful of mistakes in the full final prediction (Including the Winner, which I had been saying since February). I watched the shows with the internationals here from Sweden, Turkey, Hungary, Germany and Malta, as well as some Brazilians - wondering what on earth was going on (particularly shakeyvag from Greece and Grannies from Russia). As I am abroad, it also gave me the opportunity to vote for my own country - which i did 10 times!

Between these events have been a few nights out with my group of Erasmus friends - one time was in a place called Bar Celona, where we had some cheap cocktails, including a milky green coloured one named "Swimming Pool". Whilst this week we went on a pub crawl in the Viertal with Hanna from Hungary's boyfriend, who brought with him some homemade Schnapps - 50% alcohol, which now ranked top of my list of strongest drinks along with the Ukranian vodka with gold flakes in it.

In the midst of all of this, I have been planning my life until Uni in September, and have booked myself a trip to the Baltic States ( Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland) for mid-August, as well as planning a trip to Istanbul in September. Now comes June, which much like May revolves around work and class most of the time - including on every Saturday. But soon enough my last two months here will come to an end, and I will be back seeing you all very soon!

So this week has been a lot of fun! On Friday night we had the first party of this semester, and it was really nice to see a lot of people from last semester as well as meeting some of the newbies...at the end there was about 30 of us in the tiny kitchen, before we made it to the club.

Whilst outside showing people in, the neighbours came back home so I thought I'd better tell them what was going on, which led to a funny conversation:

Me: Yeah, we are having a party here right now, but we will be leaving soon...it's not gonna be like it was last semester Neighbour: Oh, you heard about it last semester? Me: Err yeah, I heard about it.....

Luckily they didn't recognise me! haha. Although we later found out that one of our neighbours had complained to our landlady...which never happened last semester, when our parties were way worse...

The fun of Friday was soon crushed as I had all day class on Sunday...but on the brighter side, the weather all week has been gorgeous. Reaching 25˚C, and sunny by Tuesday, when it was a bank holiday. Together with ten others, we went on a "Bollerwagentour" (a Bremen tradition), where we took lots of alcohol around with us in a toytruck and drank some at every corner. We started off at Amalie from Denmark's house and went into the Bürgerpark, where we all became rather intoxicated by 2pm!

In the early evening we found a jetty onto the lake and spent a good hour subathing there. After we had finished many of us came back to the Party House where the fun continued. On Thursday we all decided to go for Sushi in the city for lunch, and later went up to the Waterfront shopping - in Primark I managed to find a lovely "DEUTSCHLAND" top, which I can add to my themed top collection. haha!

This weekend I have classes all day, and when not working I am getting some of my reports done for next month...It's not all fun and games I can assure you! I hope you are all having fun where you can, I know some of you have exams right now, so good luck!