kleine ausflug...

before i get started on what i've been up to for the past week, i just want you to take a little look at this map of berlin. and zoom in real good so that you find Babelsberg, it's the stop before Potsdam. Meaning the far bottem left corner. So Mateusz and i fell asleep on the s-bahn on our way home from a WG (Wohnheimgemeinschaft) Party last night. the party was in Friedrichshain, so an u-bahn away from Alexanderplatz. On the S-Bahn back to Tiergarten from Alexanderplatz both Mateusz and i fell the heck asleep and woke up simultaneously as the s-bahn was pulling into Babelsberg. The stark realization occured when i saw on the stop announcer thing that potsdam was the next stop. that is SO FLIPPING FAR AWAY from where i live. so we sprinted off the train and luckily, at the same moment another train had just pulled in going in the opposite direction. It's about another hour or so from where we were to where we live, so naturally we fell asleep...again.
gosh darnit!
we woke up in alexander platz...where we started, except for about 2 and half hours later. We jumped off the train and watched our train pull away the second that we stepped foot on the platform. so we had to wait about 10 minutes or so and then DIDN'T sleep from alexanderplatz back to tiergarten.
ive never wanted to be in bed so bad.
but i can now say i've experienced the proverbial 'fall asleep while on the s-bahn and wake up somewhere crazy' experience that seemingly all exchange students go through.

anyhow...
yesterday i was quite busy.
romain, ida and i went to see the philharmonic. it was great to get out and have some 'culture' for the weekend. the building was beautiful and the music was even better. i chatted with some old german dude about silicon valley and witnessed a medical emergency also. our seats were 20 euro and actually not that bad, it was one of those music halls where every seat in the house is a good seat. afterwards we got ida a döner and bought a few beers.
we headed back to siegmunds hof where a few friends were meeting. a guy from my floor is moving back to brazil so he had a going away party. i knew this was going to be happening, and i was already planning on going but i didn't realize how massive it was going to be. i've never seen so many people on my floor, ever!
it was a blast listening to brazilian music and drinking Caparenas. Hanging out for a bit was fun then we headed to a WG wig party in Friedrichshain. lots of people were wearing wigs and it was reallly fun.

then mateusz and i fell asleep on the s-bahn :( but still a pretty funny adventure
but today i was 'total kaputt' and didn't wake up until about 2.
emilia and i went for a bit of 'sonderpreis' shopping in alexanderplatz. at zara i got 2 shirts for 6 euro!!!!
today i'm taking the night off and staying in, i'm just too tired. i'm going to try and get some work done because i have a presentation in my german course on monday. last monday a girl present and got totally torn apart by the professor..for abotu 10 minutes in front of the whole class, so i definitely don't want a repeat of her experience so this presentation has to be good.
but lots of studying in anycase, our exams are coming REALLY fast.

in the meantime though i've been plannng my trip to london and amsterdam.
i can't wait!!

i have lots of pictures but the uploader thing isn't working, so you're just gonna have to wait. sorry!