WOW! what a busy weekend i had! but omg busy doesn't mean bad. in fact, it means the BEST WEEKEND IN THE WORLD. so after going into the Stadt w/the girls in my class to say bye to Remi, because he had to go back to canada on Saturday morning. he got spagetti eis, which made me laugh quite hard, because the last thing he'd eat at a cafe in germany was ba da da daaa spagetti eis. wow...? haha but yest now i have a friend in canada with whom i can not talk, but i guess a friend in canada convienient eitherway, right? NOT RIGHT. because it's CANADA...but either way, here's the 6 people i went with. Gina, the girl on the right, furthest back, looks REALLY scary.Then i trecked home for about 20 mintues and was picked up by me neighbor to go to Benny's birthday party. We randomly played life before everyone got there, and life is SO DIFFERENT in german than in English! it was so weird!! i would be like, WHAT are you doing, and they'd be like uhh duhh and i was likE AH! it's so different. my occupation was an artist, and i got paid 27000 a year. HA well, i guess our wish to become starving artists could TOTALLY come true w/that, eh phoebs? baaa so here's ben, the guy, and his girlfriend who are SO INCREDIBLY cute together, and that little girl is his little sister, i forgot her name.

and here's me and katha being our gangsta selves in benny's room. i know, i know, WHY do they live in germany instead of the ghetto? dont worry, we ask ourselves that every day, too...
then i was picked up and i went to the train station w/my host mom to pick up....

PHOEBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who was brave enough to spend six hours on a train and come visit me. taps to her, b/c that's def. tough for just a weekend, but o m g what a weekend we had! what a wonderful boost, and it was cool having a friend in my house, you know? it felt SO much more home like than i've ever experienced here before. oh wowzerz! even the lame weirdo boring singing german church seemed a little more fun because i knew she was there, too. oh george

anyway what a speal

so on saturday we went into the Stadt to do some shopping, and we (or more phoebe) came across THIS! poor, poor manequin...

you know, and if you're going to take a picture, might as well take two!

...or three (espically the third if the girl in it is wearing some CRUNK mittens AND a matching hat. MAN it can't get much better)

actually that dismanteled body looks pretty cool just hangin out there, don't ya think? but anyway, so we rummeged around the stadt, sat on steps watching people go up them then turn around and come right back down, searching for wool, you know the usual things people do in the stadt, and then we came home to the wonders of FRENCH TOAST MAKING! (following, of course, our making of a quite ugly piece of felt and quite cute felt balls for earrings which was indeed totally random but quite fun, and if i ever need felt again in my life, you know, i know what to do...hahaa no more target- GO HOMEMADE! yay!) oh lecker. oh i want some RIGHT NOW! but as many of you know, one needs eggs to make french toast. so we of course open up the fridge, then turn to open up the egg carton (which my host mom had most likely bought earlier that same day, considering it was full) and LOOK WHAT WE SAW! haaa aww
MMMM the finished product!

and powdered sugar and cinnamon makes them Sooooooo good!

of course, we had many random moments and such not to be mentioned here, but oh it was the best weekend ever, filled with phoebe time!! i can't wait to go to loebau!!!

then after phoebe (sadly...) left, the host fam and i went to a christmas market in a neighboring town with some of their friends, where i PROUDLY ate a half meter long bratwurst. that's right. then we watched ice skaters for a while, walked around, and did the normal christmas market thing. iloooove the weihnachtsmarkt, i do i do! every time i go i want a nutella crepe so bad, because i mean nutella is sooo lecker, but i didn't get one. sad. but here are some pictures i took at the eisschuhebahn (ice skating rink,or ring???) i didn't use a flash at all b/ c i found the lighting to be so magestic and so...winteree!! so the point is, please ignore the blurryness. aw, aren't those little kids cute? none of them are Justus, josephine, or the other kid we met there, but check out that hat in the middle! nice.

and finally, i would like to prove how incredibly weird things may be sometimes by showing you this picture. maybe it's just me, but take a look at it and SEE if you think anythings kind of WEIRD. i laughed so incredibly hard and tried to share that joy w/my host dad, but he just didn't seem to think it was nearly as amusing or as weird or as funny as i did. here's a little hint for all you non-german speakers out there..."Frische Pommes" means "Fresh French Fries"...
see the predicament?