warming up

just finished up the weekend and my first week back from the states. and i can say that it was awwwesome.
i went out to lunch, and my 'out' i mean in the mensa, with ida and anna. we sat there for quite some while just chatting and stuffing my face with salad.
i also dropped by mateusz's place and gave him his xmas gift. he gifted me a bottle of really good polish vodka. i actually ended up getting a second bottle from emilia too! a true polish gift, vodka. but really, when you mix the stuff with some apple juice it tastes like actual apple pie! this is both pleasant and dangerous. it's called 'bison grass vodka', it has a strand of grass in it, but its a saying or something that they only use the grass that bison have peed on. hahaha, don't think thats true but still funny.

on friday everyone met again in the weinerei. if i didn't explain earlier this is a 'pay what you want' weinerei, and they have food too! we got lucky finding a big table because there were probably about 15 of us. here we just hung around till late drinking wine and catching up, it was quite nice.

on saturday i woke up too early :( (i've been having trouble sleeping in lately) and studied a bit. final exams are coming up and i have to make sure i know everything. it would be really unfortunate if i threw these grades down the toilet ecause it still affects my GPA. but i'm not doing that! at around 2 i went to idas place, shared some music and did some grocery shopping for dinner later that evening when ida, merce and i ate dinner at emilias place. we all brought a little something and emilia made some tasty tasty spaghetti.
we chatted, ate and drank some wine. the wine plus not that much sleep made me REALLY tired so i went home and took a little nap before going out. i almost stayed in because i was so tired, but boy am i glad i didn't!

a seminar for architecture students has a project of designing and building a school or something 'charitable' in mexico and threw 'MEXICO PARTY' to raise money for it.
soooooo much fun.
it was in Festhaal Kreuzberg. it had some fun live reggae/ska-ish danceable music. there was also german rapping which was quite fun to see :)
it had tons of mexican decorations. everyone working it wore either a wrestling mask, a sombrero, an eyemask, or all three! later in the night they played some really fun mexican/spanish/mexican-american music. i could have danced till morning but a friend got sick and was not in a state of being able to get home safely alone, so i left a little earlier...4am. it was still a blast.

on sunday emilia, merce and i went to mauer park floo markt. it wasn't that cold out...i mean, it was cold, but not as much as the previous week. however, the ground was still covered in snow and my feet were FREEZING. absolutely freezing, it was unbearable. emilia was in the same boat so this sped things up going through and we went to a cafe immediately afterwards to warm up a bit. drank some tea, sat around to warm up and then went home to do a bit of work.

today i had class but am going to get some coffee with a friend later and am planning on seeing the Duke Spirit tomorrow.