Elderberry Syrup

So, I looked up how to get to the Maur Park flea market and how to say "Die Kaffeemühle kostet wie viel?" and made sure I have everything and stepped outside and realized it wasn't Sunday.

Yesterday we had a trip to Potsdam with the program (which is why I thought it was Sunday)
It was very pretty (all was nice except for the sweltering heat) and I didn't follow around the tour guide because even if I try I can't really understand what he is saying. Also when I do understand, it's nothing interesting. So I walked around with the Spanish-speaking girls (three from my A1 class, most of them from Mexico) and afterwards got food with Lucy (Shanghai, Oxford) and Marcel (Hungry, high-school.)




One of the people I'm renting from (Tilman) had orders local food, and each time it's a surprise what he will get (I don't know how often, Tuesday was the first time) it included some sort of giant German spinach (not sure what it is called) fresh milk, apples and onions. He made a quiche with the spinach-like-leaves, and salad with giant caper berries and there was also homemade elderberry syrup with sparkling water, which smelled and tasted amazing. (He invited me and one of his peers)


Wednesday  (Laura Rosie Lin Lucy Ben and I) crashed a screening of "Good-Bye Lenin" which I haven't seen in years. I honestly think it might be part of the reason I wanted to come here. By crashed I mean that there is a large group of kids from the University of Alabama who have additional context/history courses. Which on one hand is great, on the other hand based on some of the things one of the guys said, he is still not getting it, so detached from the reality of history, making war jokes ("I was being sarcastic" me in my head "it's still not funny") and oversimplifying the movie to the statement of "his life is all sorts of whack".
And then it was Lin's birthday so I finally got to the apartments in which most of the students in the program live, by Tierpark. Had dinner with Rosie and Laura and Danel (an Alabama girl who...is hard to shake off, especially with her habit of inviting herself along) and then we brought a cake over to another room (we actually ended up celebrating in an apartment in which none of the present party lived)

Thursday we went to the Neue Nationalgalerie after classes, but it was also organized by the program. I gave my camera to Hannah and wandered around by myself, and wrote down a bunch of names of artists to look up. Hannah had way too much fun with the camera.

So yes, today I was about to wander off on my own but I guess I'll do work instead, until evening, I do have plans for then (don't worry Mama, I'm not being a hermit) --((she seems to be worried that I'm a hermit))