Adventures of a teenage nomad

Its been quite a while since i've written! sorry about that!

Sooo- i think i left of at just arriving at isa's house,

i went to school with her the next day, some parts were a little bad, but i had mzy book with me so all was fine. I thought english class was really funny, i had helped isa with most of her homework, and got a couple wrong. How does that work? I geuss shes learning British english, even her teacher had a british accent!

We then watched a german film that had supposedly won an oscar. It was about 2 hours, and there was no action. so it was pretty much people talking back an forth resulting in me have NO idea what was going on. But right at the end of the movie the last words were 'this is for me.' I looked at isa and said 'finally!' i understand!!! even though i didnt. She explained it to me, for the most part.

Its crazy, even though i'm not in school, i feel like i'm learning so much about german history after ww2. more on that later in this entry....

So next day, we got up at 3am and got on a train to munich for oktoberfest!. most slept part of the way. there were a lot of people dressed in the bavarian costume, pretty cool. i love leiderhosen. thats probably not even close to how you spell it, but sound it out. youll get it eventually. ok. so oktoberfest-

wow.

it was hard in the beginging because there were 5 of us, and it was EXTREMELY crowded, wall to wall people. I was in constant counting mode, but we didnt get too seperated.

After walking around a bit we decided to go on the huge ferris wheel. Each room fit about 10 people and you could see the whole fairground. Iäll definitly put up pictures of that (but not for a while).

so food, mmm.... i had a pretzel (or bretzel) first cause i had heard they were REALLY good, but i wasn't that impressed. But the crepe makes up for it- so much. it was a beautiful crepe with sliced bananas and nutella, i think it might be sent from heaven. it was right of the grill and at some points were so hot you just wanted to stuff it all in your mouth (and believe me, your mouth won't complain)

so 2 of the 5 had to leave at 5pm, so we sent them off, and the crowds were getting to be a little too much, so we walked around munich awhile, beautiful city with gorgeous fountain- just lovely!

then one more girl had to leave so it was me and isa. thats when the REAL oktoberfest began. It was so funny to see the progression of people from the begining to the end of the day. Mostly guys doing everything- peeing, streaking, dancing where there is no music, sleeping in random places, pretty hilarious! So my first beer was on this really cool mary-go-round, but instead of horses, it was a spinning bar. me and isa hopped on (it was REALLY crowded) and before we knew it some random guy bought us a drink! sweet! so we drank that then took the glasses (because we're that cool),

Later on we really wanted to go in a beer tent. this, we learned is impossible unless-
1- the table in the tent was passed on in your family for the last 3000 years,
2- you were suave enough to hand the guard a 50
3- i wish there was a 3rd, but theres not.

so, it was impossible.

we could see in though through the windows- it was complete chaos, everyone was going nuts.

soo, plan b, we went to a biergarden! probably a bit less chaotic then the tents, but barely so.

there was loud drinking music and everyone was singing and dancing and well, dancing on the tables. there was quite a lot of that. The good thing about drunk people is they come out of there shyzone. you can talk to people about ridiculous things, and nobody thinks any different of it. so at some point during the night i was surrounded by 5 guys who barely spoke a english having the time of my life. there was definitly a sweet 5 to 1 ratio of guys to girls and i didn't mind one bit. dancing, singing and a lot of laughing, it was so fun!

i didn't really drink that much, just a pint from the bar go round and i shared a mug with isa, (mostly for picture sake) even though we were at oktoberfest, i think it was good i knew what was going on, because it made it that much funnier to laugh at the drunks trying to remember how to say i love you in english, with no avail.

so at midnight me and isa hopped on a train (we actually had to switch 6 times) for 12 hours with very little sleep. we made it to berlin completely wiped out, and found the hostel with no problem (ya! small victory!) we crashed in the beds for a 3 hour nap, then we did the pub crawl. its this thing that goes to 5 bars, with a ton of people.

to summarize that experience- i'm fine with not even looking at a bar for a long, long time.

so today, after sleeping in, a lot, we had to switch rooms for booking reasons, so after that- we went to one of the only mueseums that were open, and it was, to be nice, stupid. i'm usually all into creative expression but it only had one 'piece of art' which was a grass thing. it was pretty much a box that grew grass squares on a conveyer belt. stupid, very stupid.

after we went to checkpoint charlie. Its a 'point'between east and west berlin durring the communist actions. i learned so much, it went into a lot of how people escaped the berlin wall.

crazy history, learned a lot, wicked tired, peace out!
°MARYme