Last Thursday was our mid-crit. I worked all week on it and really liked how it turned out. I got all the work done which was awesome because most people weren't able to get all the requirements done for Thursday. I also planned out my sheets and they looked really good. I was really happy with my presentation and got awesome praise and feedback. I love that feeling where you get all your work done and you are happy with it. That rarely happens and I really need to start working on making sure that it does more often. It's really nice to be able to go before critics and be confident with what you have. Most other people did a pretty good job.
Unfortunately, we could not rest because we had an Italian Quiz on Friday and our Theory project was due on Monday! I was way too tired from the mid-crit wFork to do much on the Theory project though (like a lot of people) and boy was that a mistake, but I'll talk about that a little later.
On Friday, 5 of us left to fly to Munich for the weekend. It was Sara, Diana, Alex, and Steve and I. We arrived in Munich and found our hostel which turned out to be soooo cool. Our room was awesome and we had our own bathroom and balcony. And the hostel itself had an atrium with bean bag chairs and other awesome things. Definitely a high quality establishment. We got settled in, made our beds and got ready to go out, and found a restaurant on the maps we had. We got dinner and it was pretty good but nothing extraordinary. We then searched for somewhere to go to a bar but for some reason the city felt pretty dead. We weren't sure if it was just a quiet night or the city had early closing laws. We later figured out they are more of a day-drinking crowd. Anyway, we found this bar that was half Irish-half Australian and got a couple of drinks but we were really tired so we went home after a little bit.
The next day we woke up and Steve, Sara and I attempted to work on our Theory projects for a little bit but it was getting late so we woke Diana and Alex up to get going. We explored Munich visiting a couple of different sites and ended up at the English Gardens which were so awesome. There was a surfer's wave where for some reason there was a non-stop wave because of the current and a bunch of guys were surfing on it. Then we walked through and saw a naked guy sunbathing. For some reason, in this park there is just an area where people sunbathe naked, and its just accepted and theres little kids running around and it's no problem. We then saw the cutest dog we've all seen in our lives and Alex wanted to steal it. Definitely the best dog we've seen since most of them are more mutt-like. We've definitely noticed that dogs are more grimey and usually not pure-breds in Rome, not like the nice pretty dogs in America. (I miss my puppy!)
Anyway, we then got to the Chinese beer garden in the English Gardens and got lunch. We finally got to drink out of the huge beer glasses. The food was awesome and so was the beer. The weather was great and we loved our lives.
That night we went out to dinner at the HofBrauHaus. It is a really traditional beer garden in Munich and it was definitely the best time. We shared a huge table with two German kids and a German couple. The kids spoke some English and got to talking with us. We got awesome meals and the huge beers that the beer maidens could carry like 10 of at a time. It was sooo cool. There was also a band playing sweet umpa music and there was lots of cheersing. It was such a blast. The German kids we met took us out after to a club where we stayed out pretty late dancing and having a good time.
The next day we went to see the Glockenspiel which is a really cool clock in the middle of Munich where there are puppets that dance around when the clock goes off. It only happens twice a day and everyone gathers around to watch it. It's really cool.
Later we went to Dachau to see the concentration camp. It was a really interesting, sobering experience, and while that seems like a really depressing thing to do, I was really happy we did it. I am so interested in the German culture and it was my first time seeing anything like that in person. It was upsetting, but I appreciated the memorialization. There were signs that said "Never Again" in a lot of different languages.
We then headed back to Rome and had to get going on our Theory projects! We ended up staying up all night with many other people and not finishing in time. We talked to Scott and a got sort of extension where we got our grades docked so that we could finish our projects to their fullest. I ended up finishing mine at mid-night the day it was due, but I liked the way it came out and hopefully even with a grade docking I won't do too badly.
Tomorrow we leave for our school trip to the Veneto region!
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