It ended up taking quite awhile to fall
asleep, with the 4 hour name and 5 hour time change, I was all messed
up. I ended up waking up at 10am, ate the last muffin I had, grabbed
a shower, and headed out to the internet cafe knowing that most
things are closed on Sundays. To my surprise there was a huge market
going on just 100m away, I later learned it was a once a year type of
thing. I didn't buy anything but had a look to some of the many
things that were being sold. The internet cafe was closed, along with
all the grocery stores, I was not having much luck. I headed back to
my street and got a chicken kebab (kebap in German) from the place
two doors down. It was excellent and only cost 2€, I can see myself
visiting that place frequently. I asked for a water, and completely
forgot about the whole fizzy water in Europe thing so it was pretty
awful. I ended up shaking up the bottle several times to get rid of
the carbonation. I was going to go back to my room at this point but
decided I'd take another look at the market. I didn't even get to the
market before seeing the two other UNB students, Marc and Sean,
walking by. I caught up with them and we headed to a grocery store
that had now opened. We bought some beer and headed to their place,
about a 10-15 minute walk from where I'm living. We hung out there
for a while, I was able to use their wireless for a few minutes to
post a brief update letting people know I made it to Germany, before
heading out again. I showed them where I'm living and we headed to
the park across from the train station. Since drinking in public
seems to be legal here, we had a couple beer in the park and Marc
played the guitar that he brought with him from home. It was a very
warm day, yet many of the Germans were wearing sweaters, while I
found it too hot to be wearing jeans! After a while at the park, they
headed back to their place and I headed to the grocery store to buy
some food. I bought mostly things I recognized, although I could not
find eggs at this place, and I bought something that might be
mustard. I guess I better get practicing the German, the only three
Germans that I've spoken to that speak fluent English were the girls
that picked me up from the train station. I brought the food back to
my place and headed out to try to connect to the wireless at the
university. I had no luck, so I came back here to write this. I have
still not seen anyone else in this building. I'm pretty tired at the
moment so I'm debating making a sandwich or heading to bed. 7:30pm is
way too early to go to bed, while making a sandwich likely involves
creating waste, and with the intense recycling/composting I've been
avoiding doing that as I have no idea what goes in which bin.
I have pictures on my phone but I need wireless first to get them off my phone, I'll include them in a later post. Since I'm paying by the minute right now I'll wait until I get back to my place before writing another post, just glad I was able to find an internet cafe finally as the first one I found apparently shut down years ago.
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