Alright, so not a whole bunch happened last weekend that I remember… I was preparing like crazy for two referats (presentation) I had that week, and guess what? My verdammte internet goes out! I kid you not, a lightning bolt hit our building and surged my computer, temporarily snuffing some drives. So I had no internet on Sunday, and was stuck having to do most of the work and data collection on the following Monday. I’m not sure if I’ve posted already over seeing “Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band” last Monday, but that was amazing too! Maybe I’ll try to include a picture of them in this note too, if I didn’t do anything on them before.
This weekend we went to Weimar. It’s a little town a bit north of Leipzig. I went with my two friends from England; Emma and Lucille. Som other people from my sprachkurs (language course) were also there.
The town was super small and most of it revolved around this Dude Goethe. Who founded a whole buncha fun stuff there? The city is described as being “an extraordinarily large park, that so happens to surround a small town. The first day was cool. We just walked around the town a bit and then went to a Shakespeare themed restaurant. Our program arranger had provided us food for that evening, and the restaurant was great. I had some pasta with Salmon in it.
We three went out that night. We had been given a recommendation to check out some place up on the border to the new town, but when we stopped for directions there person told us that the place was no good, so she gave us a different recommendation. We were nice and drunk, and had a really fun time at this place, though it only fit about fifty people at most. It was cozy though, and the basement was sweet; it was made of stone and smelled like ancient cave walls. Ema also found her last name written on the wall of the bathroom door, which also rocked.
We got a little lost on our way back, and didn’t end up getting to sleep until around 4, which led to a terrible hangover for me the next day.
Saturday kinda stank from the get-go. Breakfast was good, but we had a city tour to go on, and it rained the whole way through. This city is also themed after the Ginko Biloba tree, because they had specially ordered some from far away and planted them all over the place. They found Ginko interesting because it was one of the few plants to return to existence after the ice-age. We also saw a pretty interesting Soviet memorial…
I have a strange attraction to everything Russian… don’t ask me why. Just be thankful for me that it’s not the 60’s anymore!
So yeah, we also checked out a crazy architecture museum and stuff as well.
It was alright, but the horrible weather on Saturday mixed with the hangover and we also saw a pretty bad opera at the end of the day… well, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. I just don’t like Operas… dislike them even more than musicals, and I don’t like musicals much either. Got a good nap in there at least!
The second half was pretty good though… it was kinda like West Side story meets Macbeth or something… in modern day! The spinny stage was rather entertaining… kinda like watching a dim-sum with waling opera people. Lolz
The next day was more interesting. We got enough sleep the night before, and went off to do our own things.
I circumnavigated the city; first checked out an old church which was pretty nice, then I got stopped by a kitty, that came right up to me so I got to pet it, and was very happy by this. Then I found Nietzsche’s archive, and walked all the way out to the border of town out into the rolling country side.
After that I found the most amazing part. There was a super old cemetery in the middle of town with a WW1 memorial and a Russian orthodox church.
It was probably the most moving thing I found there. They were having a baptism at the time, and the singing was amazing. Fun stuff… Then I went around to the front and got to check out Goethe’s Sarcophagus! How fun… After that I went on a long walk through the park, encountering the old ruins of the Shakespeare stage that we saw the day before… they looked much better then… I also saw an old roman building, some pretty rivers and Goethe’s garden house, which has a duplicate right beside it… They’re weird like that. I also got some peanut icecream at a shop, which was pretty odd I had to say… big ole’ pieces of peanut were just stuck right there in the icecream… it was pretty good though. After that we took the train rid back home. All in all it was a pretty good trip though. Poor Ema was getting pretty tired by the end of it though, which I don’t blame her. She’s more of a big city girl I’d say, though I make my peace quite will with small towns… no wonder, saying I’m from the U.P… lol.
Anyway, it was a great time, and now I’m back in Berlin and back to business studying for me next referat and getting my lines down. Yay is me! Peace all,
Dave
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