Mittelaltermarkt und Mayans

Today I went with Lintu and Thomas to a Renaissance market in Stuttgart. It was VERY small and not really worth what they were charging just to get in. It was cool but very overpriced. I did buy some earrings for 7€ but everything else was way out of my budget. There were a lot of cool outfits and some great performers but we only stayed for about an hour because there was so little to do. I couldn't eat anything there either because it was all meat and bread. These pictures didn't turn out great because of the lighting. Oh well...

 süß ^_^

 Fire juggler

 Want to make...

New earrings :3

After that we went to the Linden Museum to look at the Maya-code exhibit and everything else there. (Didn't think you could take pictures but I found other peoples pics online...) It was pretty interesting but I was getting pretty tired from so much walking and nothing but coffee on my stomach all day. After that we had to walk around for a while waiting for the sushi place to open at 6. The sushi was delicious and we got to watch them make it at the bar which is always fun. Then we took the train back home and it was all we could do to keep from falling asleep.

So another fun full day! Even though it wears me out I love being busy. Plus my friends are fun to hang out with . Counting down the days till I fly home! My chain I made is so tiny now ^___^ only 17 more to go! Weeee!

Chocolate and Dark Visions

I have mostly just been going to class since the Christmas break. So my friend and I decided to take a trip to the Ritter Sport Museum. I was never a chocolate fan until I ate Ritter Sport... I kind of wish I hadn't haha It is so addicting. The museum wasn't much to look at. I think we spent more time in the chocolate shop than anything. There was a small video on how they make the chocolate and that was interesting. Plus there are a lot of historic buildings in the area so we also looked at those.

After that we decided to go into town to try to find a Manga store. There ended up being one in Tübingen and one in Reutlingen. We went to both and I bought one Manga. They had so many and they were cheaper than in the USA but they're all in German so I don't want to start a collection and it be half in English and half in German. By that point it was dinner time so we went to the sushi buffet and then home.

 I then had 3 hours before Dark Visions with Thomas and Lintu. The last time I went I just hung out with them the whole time and drank. There weren't many people last time so dancing wasn't really an option. This time there were a lot of people and, even though neither of them wanted to dance, I decided dancing would be more fun than just sitting around. I am not a good dancer but I don't care haha Dance like nobody's watching and you will have fun! After a while I found them again hanging out with friends and talking and they told me I was a really good dancer... HAHA Well I appreciate it but this was my first time dancing in a gothic club, I doubt I was very good. We ended up staying there for 4 hours so I made up for missing my gym time that day. I am very sore today! 3 hours of dancing is a great workout. I will have to start adding that to my weekly routine even if it's just in my room :)

 Terrible picture of me >.<

lol I'm dancing in the left corner. Glad they didn't get a better picture XD

Pretty Steampunk

Lintu and Thomas

My second final is this week and then my last is Feb 5. I will have a lot of free time in February before I leave since I just have that one class for one day. I think I might go to Köln even if it's by myself. It is so pretty and I'm sure I would have fun just walking around for a day or two. There is also a Medieval Market near Stuttgart next weekend that I was thinking of going to. Just trying to stay busy and see as much as I can. 

A late Christmas!

My family sent me a box for Christmas at the beginning of December in the hopes that I would have something to open Christmas morning. After a lot of headache over the tracking and over a month later it finally arrived. I have no idea what took so long since the sticker says it arrived in Frankfurt on Dec 9. It took 3 days to cross the ocean and several countries but a month to make the 3 hours drive here? Oh well, better late than never. The baked goods had to be thrown out which was a bad and good thing since I'm trying to get back in shape. I don't need chocolate chip cookies tempting me. My family got me Pocky, Chocolate Pandas, How to Crochet kit, yarn, Crochet book, tumbler cup with straw, a movie, and some other little things along with items I needed from home. Thank you for your thoughtful gifts and making (even a late) Christmas away from home a little less lonely. :)

Silvester and Wilhelma

I am a terrible blogger >.< Well after Christmas I spent New Years Eve (Silvester) with friends. Germans don't celebrate New Years till after midnight...so strange. So we went to Kuckucks at 1:30am and danced till 6am haha I was so tired. It was fun though since there weren't that many people there like at halloween where it was packed. Germans also love their fireworks..We almost got hit by people throwing them from the balcony on the way to Kuckucks. Plus there were more professional fireworks going on that we have at 4th of July. It was crazy.

 Model in train station

  After New years my friend (Betty) and I went to Wilhelma which is the zoo and botanical garden in Stuttgart. It was kind of disappointing since the garden was all dead and it was raining and cold. The zoo part was ok. I didn't care for the lack of habitat for the animals. Plus most of them seemed on edge the whole time. I had fun hanging out with my friend though and I finally went somewhere not in Tübingen haha When you've been raised on the Wild Animal Park and San Diego zoo, everything else just pales in comparison. Plus I don't have a good time if I feel the animals aren't being treated right. Makes me sad.

 

Sad looking botanical garden

Natural Science Museum 

 

Very graphic statues around the zoo haha

 very stressed snow leopard :(

 Betty and the mountain goats!

 They did have an awesome bat room :)

 Sumatran tiger kept pacing and roaring

 

Giraffes in their bedroom

 Snowy Owl (Hedwig! :3)