Day of the Cousins

So yesterday was my first full day here in Germany. I started the day by going into Munich with Florian around 9:30am. We went to a cafe and had "breakfast"--if you can call a cheeseburger and french fries breakfast. But it was good. We got back to Tobi and Gerlinde's around 1:00pm, I think, and Melanie came to pick me up to go shopping at about 2:00pm. We went to a new shopping mall, and looked around for a number of hours. I bought four long-sleeved t-shirts (two black and two blue, the colors do seem a little emo, no?)--I have mostly short-sleeved t-shirts back in Lugano. For some reason, when I packed I was only thinking of hot summer weather and cold snowy weather--not the in-between weather, where neither of the above clothing types are comfortable. So that was good. Then we went to the bar that she worked at, and we we stayed there until about 6:45pm. I had a bottle of water (no gas) and Melanie had an iced tea. Then Melanie dropped me off back at the house and I changed to get ready for Melanie's best friend's birthday party.

Melanie picked me up at 9:00pm, and then we went over to her friend Tina's house. It was all girls, and there was some Ghoulash (sp?) soup and little cakes and things, and Tina opened presents. Then sometime around 11:00pm, everyone organized themselves into the different cars, and we drove to Munich to go to a club. The club in Munich was much better than in Lugano. It was much cleaner, and it was not so smokey (in Lugano, you couldn't see more than a foot or two in front of you because of all the smoke), and the music was much much better. To my surprise I owned a large number of the albums that they were playing music from--they played everything from the Gorillaz to Ray Charles to Justin Timberlake, the Roots, a sampling from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and lots of hiphop and whatnot that I'm not familiar enough with the titles of (and all of the music was mixed, etc. of course). But it was much better than the House/Techno/Electronica they play all the time in Lugano--it's so redundant it just gives you a headache. So that was good. I think I've decided that after people have a drink (at least the German girls), their English improves. Or maybe it's just that they are less shy. One Russian girl could all of a sudden speak English after a couple of drinks--it was quite a surprise.

We left the club around 3:30am, and I got back to the house around 4:00am. Then I went to sleep, and got up around 9:00am and had breakfast with Tobi and Gerlinde. At 2:00pm today I am going over to see Gabi and Salvatore, I think. That should be good. I wish I knew more German. If only they spoke Spanish. All right, more soon. And I'm going to try and complete a little more of my Sicilian adventures too...!