Saturday was a blast-o-rama!!!
Oh wait, Friday first.  I did go to Salomé, the Opera, but it was a modern production and I didn't really enjoy it.   I felt SO terrible through the whole thing that there were so many points where I just about got up and left.  I didn't however.  I don't regret that I didn't leave, but I really wouldn't have been missing anything.  It was like "Ooooh, I want to kiss YOUR MOUUUUTHHHH"  "I hate you don't kiss my mouth.."  "OOOOOHHHH I WANT TO kiss your mouth you have the most beautiful mouth in this worldddd" (and they are singing this all of course..)  "Ohhh I just had you beheaded and your mouth still looks so beautiful I want to bite it like ripe fruit" (I'm so serious that she said that)  "I just kissed your mouth!  I am triumphant!  You are dead..but I kissed your mouth"  


Anyway, I went home that night just went to bed because I was in too much pain to do anything else.  


On Saturday I woke up and everything was just better. I felt perfectly normal.  Iana called me and we hung out for a couple hours.  

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday there was a big Street Party in the Neustadt.  

I can't even say how much area it covered.   An extremely large chunk.  Iana and I visited around 2 in the afternoon I think and there were probably 2 to 4 thousand people there and the streets were still fairly empty.  It took about 2 hours to walk through most of it.  Well, she went back to her dorm to shower and do some other stuff.  I went back to my apartment and took a three hour nap.  I was completely out!  Kate (my roomie) came home and I just couldn't will myself to get up.  I was practically sitting up, and my arms were in a funny position, but I just could't move because I was so tired!  

Around 7 or 7:30 I got up and went and picked up Elliot.  We headed to the park, which was also part of the party, except had a different crowd, and different rules.  It was the "punk" party.  There were SO many of them!!  Well, we were playing hacky sack and along came the three coolest germans in this world.  Hacky sack players!!!!!!  People just really don't play hacky sack here (or as they call it, Footbag)  So we played until 10 when finally we just wanted to go into the streets and soak up the amazingness.  

So here we are, 10 p.m.  Iana and I go into the streets and Elliot goes back to his apartment until 11.  We have a solid plan to meet up at the corner of Louisenstraße and Alaunstraße at 11.  Iana and I walk over to the party's edge and we each had a beer and the cops, who were lining the party, told us no glass.  So we had to chug, what any good german would do.  The streets were packed.  It took 15 minutes to walk one block.  The streets were lined with booths selling food and booze, and there was different types of music every 5-10 ft.  We stopped at the corner where we were supposed to meet Elliot, just coincidentally though, because they had good music there.  We danced for a  while and then moved a little further.  And when I say a little, I really do mean, just a tiny bit further.  It took us SO long to walk anywhere with all the people that we got some food and went back.  

On the way there were these people on the side of the road (they had been there the whole day) and they would spray people with water guns. I was like "Oh hey, what a good idea it would be to get a picture of these silly people."  Fricking bad idea.  I walked up, had my camera out, and they totally soaked me.  I was yelling "Stop! Stop!  Look at my camera!!  It isn't fun when I have my camera out!  Stop!!" Finally they stopped and I was just about to take a picture when this super drunk man came and grabbed me!!  He like pulled me down a little, but one of the stupid sprayers pulled him away.  Then I got my picture.  

Iana was like "So, the last two minutes of your life were just ridiculous!"  I loved that quote, so basically it was all worth it.  


We finally met up with Elliot, I had to stand on a bench to find him in the masses of people, and we danced for a while.  I was on the search for a Mojito all night long.  Finally, around 2 in the morning I found one!!  They took forever making it, but it was a little piece of heaven in my mouth!   Right when I got it though we got hit by a seriously bad crowd, the worst one all night.  And this time people weren't so patient.  Two guys started trying to fight right next to me because everyone was just sick of being pushed around.  Nothing happened, but it just wasn't so much fun anymore when it was impossible to walk.  So Elliot, Victor, and I walked Iana to the tram stop, Victor and Iana both went home, and Elliot and I tried to play hack.  First of all, it was 2 in the morning and completely dark outside, second of all, we were dead tired, third of all we were both drunk.  Not very good hack playing conditions.  We basically just threw it at each other, stood there, and wondered why the heck we couldn't kick it.  After about 15 minutes of that nonsense we went to the park again.  We just kind of wondered through the park and the streets for the next hour before we made it back to our apartments and just zonked out. 

Elliot zonked, not me.  We had a very specific plan to eat Brötchen and watch Der Schuh des Manitu so I went and picked up my laptop...I left him alone for TWO minutes, and I came back and he was snoring and completely gone.

This is our conversation before I left

Me-"Don't fall asleep.'
Him- "I won't"
Me- "Elliot.  Don't fall asleep!!" 
Him- "I won't."
Me- "No sleeping. No sleeping. No sleeping.  Stay awake Elliot."
Him- "Angel, the door is open.  I couldn't fall asleep if I wanted to."
Me- "I'll be RIGHT back.  DO NOT FALL ASLEEP!"

two minutes later I'm walking up the stairs to him apartment..I hear snoring

Me- "Elliot!?"
Him- ".."

I was so sad. I felt betrayed.  Not really, we were both so tired!!  So I went to bed too. 


An orange mountain in the middle of the street. 



The biggest dog I have ever seen in my life. 





Becks and MIckey



A little dino advertisment


 

Florian, my hack lover, not understanding what I was doing with my hands...



Then realizing that I was holding a hack he decided that we had to take a new one


 

This picture cannot even start to cover the insanity in the amount of people present at this event



Putting on the party face



This man put on the party face a little too early in the night



My sprayers



Me not being very happy and my camera being soaked




We're gangstas yo!




Cheeers!!!  Elliot, Victor, Iana, and ME!






Being silly..which is basically saying that we were being Iana, Elliot, and Angel




The only nice picture I will ever get of Elliot (I really had to beg him to look normal in this one)



Annd One more!




Iana being Iana


 

And if you look really closely at the view behind us you can tell that we are at the Opera House





And tah dah!!  Good times.

Another thing...  While Elliot and I were wondering the streets we so cleverly realized that Alaska MUST home dinosaurs.  It is (was) just so logical that Alaska would be inhabited by dinos. 



I only have two days of classes left.  I am actually kind of pleased.  I am sad that I won't have german classes any more, but I'm sick of having to get up early every day.  I don't even have to get up early this many days in Alaska!  I have to take naps every day because my sleeping schedule is just so warped. 

Oooh, last night Kate and I had a laughing fit.  I wanted to know what Aubergine (egg plant) in Russian was so I got her little German study book out and looked it up.  For the next 30 minutes or so I would ask her if she liked this or that food or whatever  (All in russian though) After I got done with all the foods I just randomly said anesthesiologist and she was like "What!?!  I thought you were a vegetarian!  Ohhh, I would just like a little bit of Anesthesiologist for breakfast please"  And then I was reading sentences and we were just laughing SOOO hard!!  And at one point I was reading little sentences about what people could compliment and it was like "Oh, your hands are so delicate." "You have radient eyes"  and the last one was "You have a nice taste"  We were cracking up because we thought about the anesthesiologist again.

We were sooo hot from laughing.  It was a great workout.  Let me tell you. 


Okay.  This was a really long post.  I could absolutely write more since my everyday life is an adventure.   I really need to take out my contacts though.  Today they were so blurry that I couldn't even see. 


Two more days!  And in 9 days I will be in Romania.
 Wow. Time goes by so quickly.