Saturday morning was a slow one. Everyone who had gone on the Stuttgart trip had left at 7:30AM and that included Johann. So I didn’t have to feel any bit guilty about sleeping in either.
At about 11:00, Charlotte knocked on my door. We had agreed that since we were taking the day off, we’d make brunch together and just have a chill day. However, I had forgotten to buy flour and sugar for the crepes and had also forgotten to ask Andy if I could use some of his so, once we were both ready, we went to Kaufland.
After picking up our groceries, Charlotte needed a cup of coffee so we stopped at a cafe. There I asked where I could buy a piece of chocolate torte and the place where I was told to go was out next stop. We then headed back to the dorm. On the way back we started talking about our relationships and how great it was to not have to worry about still searching for someone. We also agreed that if anyone came at either one of us, the other would pose as the boyfriend/ girlfriend of the person being hit on.
Once we got back, we went to the kitchen and I tried making crepes based on Andy’s recipe of a handful of flour, a handful of sugar, an egg, and some water. For the most part it worked. However, they were a little more like chewy discuses than rollable crepes. Charlotte made scrambled eggs with sausage and tomatoes and we just talked about our families and our lives back at home.
We cleaned up our mess that we had made then said goodbye as we headed to our separate rooms. I spent my afternoon in my room cleaning, taking a shower, and watching a movie. I know that it doesn’t sound all that amazing, but it was good to get the little things done and then reward myself for it.
That night I went downstairs to make myself some spaghetti for dinner. Everyone else was there (Charlotte, Anneke, Andy, Stephen, Pathan, and Jesse). They were making tacos and invited me to join. I did gladly and then joined in on their wine and cheese night that followed. Anneke made this really fun platter of grapes, cheese, and chocolate and had them nicely arranged with toothpicks. Stephen had a huge wedge of gouda cheese, which he sliced up for everyone.
At one point in the evening, the topic of “true love” came up. It turned into a debate between Jesse and everyone else. Jesse, being a highly logical and calculated person, argued that what we perceive as love is merely no more than a biological set of chemical triggered signals that go off when our biological checklist is set off by finding the person that is our perfect match. Then it turned into a discussion of the existence of a soul as a non-biological thing. A lot of discussion that was both helped and inhibited by the wine that had been drunk.
At 12:30AM everyone retired. I went upstairs, put away my things from the day, and went to bed.
I woke up on Sunday at 9:15AM. I had agreed to go to church with Anneke, Andy, and Stephen at the St. Michael’s Evangelical Church in town. So, after getting ready, we met in front of the dorm at 9:45. We walked together to the church and, once there, found a pew together. It was a very interesting service and I realized how very difficult it is to sing and read in German at the same time! Near the end of the service we all said the Lord’s Prayer together and I felt so cool, because I had taken the time to memorize it a few months earlier just for fun.
After church we went back to the dormitory and decided to make lunch together. Andy made tuna-stuffed peppers with Old Bay seasoning and then taught Stephen and me how to properly make crepes, which I then did! Charlotte and Yuka (our classmate from Japan) came down to join us and we made grilled cheese sandwiches. I cleaned up my things and headed back to my room once I noticed that things were dying down.
I then got changed into comfortable clothes and read through the program guide that I had been given by the Associate Director of the Vienna program. It was a very dense read. Afterwards, I got hungry and went downstairs to make spaghetti. I did, then came back up to work on homework. At around 10:00 I got hungry again so I went downstairs and made a bowl of oatmeal.
I was done with homework by that time so I decided to write some postcards. It took about two hours to complete them all. I then went to bed at around 12:30AM.
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