Thankfully, Alice has class until early afternoon or later each day, which has given me time to catch up on my sleep and the blog. Soon I'll be on the right time schedule.
Yesterday I spent another day walking around Munster with Ron, Alice's friend from Guatemala. He has been hitch-hiking across the world for seven months so far (Central America, the US, and now Europe). He only has two shirts, one pair of pants, two pairs of shoes, and he budgets his trip for 5 Euro a day. Some how, I don't think my parents would approve of this time of travel. Haha. We were supposed to meet her other friend Johanna for a Spanish class at 4:00pm yesterday, but we sat down in a park near this promenade that encircles old Munster, had lunch (I had bought schnitzel and didn't even know it), shared a 6 pack of bier (3 euro!), got to talking and lost track of the time. We went to find the building so that we could still meet up with Johanna after her class around 6. We had an extra hour, so Ron and I visited the Schloss of Munster. Its a gooorgeous castle..too bad I had left my memory card in my computer :( What was very strange was that they had put a fair right in front of this castle. Thats Europeans for you I guess. We don't have "castles" in the States, but I imagine if we did we wouldn't put a ferris wheel and a hotdog stand in front of it.
Alice met us at 6 and took us to one of her university (they all call it Uni over here) cafeterias for some good, cheap food. After dinner, we sat next the lake in Munster to enjoy the sunset. Two more friends of Alice's, Anna and Camila, joined us and we enjoyed more beer and wine on the grass. Anna and Camila are really fun girls, especially Camila...I told her to come to the States and I would host her, haha. I hope to see some more of her later. Then we headed to a party in a Uni building, which is a weird concept to me. The University decided that they were going to tear a building down so for a farewell, the students had a party in it the day before the demolition (I guess they're working on that today?). I got the chance to see some real German punks, which for some reason I've always wanted to see. Of course they were there to wreck havoc on the building while they still could, but the cops were there before I was. They chose a good location too, because in graffiti on the builing next to them it said "Fuck the Police." I spent the rest of the night with that NWA song stuck in my head, as well as "Fight the Power." haha. The evening ended up being a success; after the punk music stopped they put on some techno (not my favorite, but the first song was some version of "Walking in Memphis," so it wasn't bad) and we enjoyed the night. The conversations were quite hilarious though...there was almost always a conversation in English, German and Spanish going on at all times, and frequently it was a mix of all three in the same sentences.
