Haven't written for a while again..wow...Well lucky for everyone, you won't have to deal with it anymore because this will be my last entry. I'm writing from the amsterdam airport since I ended up with a long lay over. Wednesday night, I couldn't believe that Spain beat Germany...I guess Germany can recoup since Spain ended up winning the World Cup, but regardless, it's ridiculous. Thursday my class presented out creative projects. One group did a student's travel guide to Berlin, one of the guys presented his top five favorite parks in the city, Kris and Nathan made a rap video in German..pahhahaa, Lauren's group made a drama called "Oh Wie Schoen ist der Doener"..ahhahahaha, and we did a sketch about our class full of our inside jokes including...Vitamin K, "In Spanien...", "Sag waaaaaaaaaas???", spaaaaaeeet, schmutzig Tafel, and many more! That evening finally visited Marienkirche and realized that I'd walked by it at least 100 times before. Also went "shopping" with Natalie and Emilia and then we ventured to Curry 36 on Merringdamm for the "best" currywurst in Berlin...my stomach didn't agree but it was the best mayo that I had in 6 weeks :).
Friday was the last day of the course with our final and then a little party. Had a huge German breakfast equipped with schrippe, cold cuts, cheese, and too many spreads and juices to count. Epic. Afterward a few of my classmates and I sat in a park area near the main campus and waited until the farewell ceremony with FUBiS. Ceremony was a little sad but had a magical buffet. Following, Emilia and I went to the Ethnology Museum. Hands down the best one that I went to on the trip. A few kids from the house had a barbeque that night to say goodbye. Lots of good food and company as always. The next morning I realized that my train had left at 3am instead of leaving at 3pm. Went to exchange my ticket and did so successfully in German :). But at my first connection had a delay, got confused and missed my connection. Ended up back in Berlin. All of that took about 6 hours and I managed to exchange my ticket again but with a few added connections...Left around 5pm and got to Koeln to my hotel about 5am on Sunday...so hot and so uncomfortable for 12 hours that I dont plan on repeating that episode ever again. Slept a bit and took a copious number of cold showers since my hotel didn't have a/c like the rest of my accomodations. Went to revisit the Koelner Dom. Very pretty of course. Went to bed afterwards and visited with family yesterday. It was a lot of fun and I think that every embarassing and/or frustrating moment that I've had while learning German was worth it just to have finally had a patchy conversation in German with my great aunt. Think she was pretty excited about it too :).
Anyway..I guess that leads to me to now...better go and double check my flight time. See everyone soon, I'm sure!! Tschuessi.