Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Dresden!Well, on the weekend I was in Dresden...it is in the east of Germany, in the middle. It is a really nice city as well.
Yea, because I don't really want to, have timme to or feel like (or remember) what I did the whole time, I will just...sum it up. You know me though, my sum ups are sometimes...long. Of all things.
Anyways, on Thursday morning I travelled with the train to Leipzig, and then to Dresden with the ICE, which is the fast train. It is really nice in those trains! I love them so much!
When I got to Dresden I met up with Elena (Romanian) at the train station, and then we went back to her place. She doesn't have any host-siblings, but her host parents are really nice.
When we got there we ate lunch, and then we set out by ourselves, to look at the city a little bit.
Dresden is a really old city with alot of history. It in on the Elbe, which is the river which goes through Schoenebeck and Magdeburg and Hamburg, not to mention alot of other cities and countries as well.
The city is made up of alot of historical buildings and tourists. I think you hear English as much as you hear German there. =P Not really, but it may as well be like that.
We walked around the city and looked at everything. I was going around, taking pictures and then I saw one of my friends, who popped up into the picture...
It was Pablo, from Chile. He lived in Schoenebeck as well, another exchange student, and he changed host-families in the same week as I did. He now lives in Hamburg.
It was really weird, because we were just walking around together and then I saw him...we met up in Dresden, which is on the other end of the world for us both!
We then walked around the city some more, talked and caught up. It is really great, exchange students have the most amazing connections...you know each other for three hours and then it's the whole huggy thing and tears when they go again.
We also ate at McDonalds...that's like this tradition somehow.
The other person I saw when I was walking down the street in Dresden, but this was on Saturday, was Andrea. She was my German teacher in Passau, if any of you remember. Normally she lives in Berlin. It was so weird seeing her again. I never thought we would ever see each other again. She was the one who taught me my first words of German, and it was so cool to be able to talk with her in German and for her to say how much I have imrpoved, and how wonderful my German is.
She was really cool, unfortunatly we couldn't talk for long though, we all had to go.
On Thursday night we went to the movies, Elena and I, and we saw The Da Vinci Code. The movie is actually quite bad...sorry to say it though.
It was weird, but somehow...I dunno. It was made pretty badly, the storyline was so unrealistic and dreadful and the same thing happened over and over again, which can get really annoying sometimes.
We went shopping in Prager Strasse, one of the big shopping streets there, and I bought a t-shirt. =D We also tried on formal dresses and had alot of fun. We then met with a friend of Elena's, she was really weird...
We got out of that pretty quickly, and then we just wanted to go home. It was cold and had been raining nearly whole day. It was cold and wet and we were exhausted.
We talked late into the night and listened to music.
Saturday morning was OK, it was a little cold, but the sun was shining, something which I haven't seen for a long time. We decided to go for a bike ride along the Elbe, which was really nice. The river is beautiful, and we rode slowly, so we could talk and look around. When we got back we were pretty tired, but it really wasn't hard or anything. It was just that we had been outside for such a long time.
We ate lunch and then went to the "new city", where we ate Doener, which is like Ali Baba, and then had a look around. It was pretty late, and around 6pm the sops started to close, unfortunatly. We walked over the bridge, over the Elbe, and went into the "old city", where we cuaght a bus home. We were drenched through, it was really cold and wet...it was pissing cats and dogs.
That night we went out, sat in a bar and talked for ages, until we finally had to be home. It was really nice to just ramble on about anything, we talked about everything and anything. The drinks were good too. =D
Yea, on Sunday we went for a walk in one of the gardens in Dresden, then we went to the train station, and I had to go home. It was great to see Elena again, pity I can't see her more often, and pity we can't see each other so easily after this year as well....Romania is pretty far.
We said goodbye, played some games in the train station, like at the YFU Middle-Seminar, and then I got in the train and went off. It was sad, but necessary.
My trip was a little boring, somehow the second train seemed to travel so slow...but funnily enough, I got to Braunschweig in what seemed like less than an hour. Weird.
Florian and Robert were at the train station and then we went home. Said hi to everyone, the normal stuff, ate and finally got a good night's sleep. I had to go to school on Monday, but it wasn't that bad...
Well, I have my birthday on Saturday. I am really looking forward to it...I am going to be 16!! And I am going to have alot of
legal fun...
Vera was here at 11:24 PM
