Hello again! I know, I know. I'm falling behind on the blog again! I'm getting slightly better at it though so no worries!
I've had a few adventures the past week and they've been pretty fun! Our group from DiD, my school, went to Rostock last weekend for the Freizeitprogramm. Rostock is up by the Baltic Sea (Ostsee in German). It was a three hour train ride there and back to Berlin, so a good chunk of our day was spent on the train. We had a new group leader who actually created a tour of Rostock for us and wore a little name tag. None of our other group leaders for the activities have done that. She's new and is probably one of my favorite leaders along with Anja. Rostock was pretty and we saw a lot of things. We then went to Warnamuende to see the Baltic Sea and wander around. I took a few pictures, but not a lot.
Speaking of pictures... iPhoto is being difficult and not wanting to transfer the pictures from my phone to the computer. This means that I probably won't get most of my pictures uploaded until after I return to the states. Sorry about that! I can upload them via Facebook when I have internet, but that will take a lot longer than I'd like. I'll see what I can do.
This past week at school was alright. I was supposed to have my test on the 21st and 22nd, but one of my teachers talked to the director of our school and asked to have it pushed back a week. She plead the case of us not being ready and wanting us to succeed and do really well on the test, so Herr Schenk (Mr. Schenk) agreed to moving it to a week later. Woo hoo! Now I have an extra week to stress out and worry about doing well on it!
Today was wonderful. The weather was 20 degrees Celsius here! That's 70F! Finally, the temperature was above 8C. I decided to take advantage of the weather and went to one of my favorite places... the zoo!! A couple of friends came along and it was great! Gwyneth and Olivia came with me and we ventured to the west Berlin zoo. It's absolutely huge and there are so many animals! We saw a panda today and it was great! We also arrived at the sea lions just in time for one of the zookeepers to put on a show! I got some great pics of it and also a couple of videos! I'll have to upload them to Facebook this weekend sometime. I took over 240 pictures at the zoo! All of the animals are so close to you! The cats exhibit is similar to Henry Doorly's, but instead of there being glass inbetween you and the animals, there's only bars! I loved it! There were signs warning you that the lions could/will urinate through the bars. A bunch of little kids were hissing at the lion and we were just waiting for the lion to make a move. Olivia had to leave around 4PM, so we made sure that we saw what we really wanted to see before leaving. I wandered around for a bit after leaving them to enjoy the weather a bit.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and our UNL group is planning to celebrate it! The Germans don't really celebrate it or even know what the holiday is. I found that interesting as I had to explain to my host mom what it was. I've brought green shirts with me so I'm ready to celebrate and hopefully find a green beer somewhere! It should be a busy day in Berlin as well. Hertha, Berlin's soccer team, plays Bayern-Munich tomorrow. Hertha has only won 1 game out of their 12 or 13 and Bayern-Munich is doing great in the league. We'll have to see how it turns out tomorrow!
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