It was Saturday morning so Sylvia said we could sleep in, so I slept in till about 10:30 and Sylvia slept in till about 1:30pm. It was no big deal though, I just got on my computer, talked to people, ate a banana, emailed, watched some Doctor Who and waited for her to wake up.
Once Sylvia was awake she ran to the bakery across the street to get some fresh bread. She came back with these German rolls called Brötchen. We ate them with cheese, meat, tomatoes, and other yummy bread toppings for lunch. Then after lunch we finished getting ready and headed out of the house.
We walked to the mall nearby (the one Nels and I went to yesterday. Yes I got the spelling of her boyfriends name and I was very off, its Nels, never seen that one before). First we went grocery shopping. It was an interesting adventure of shopping for food in a language I don't know at all, but with Sylvia we made it through and got everything we needed. We also stopped at a drug store so I could pick up a few things including tea and cough drops (stupid never ending cough). Then we caught the bus back to the apartment and put everything away.
Soon after that Sylvia had to leave for work. So she said goodbye and headed out. I stayed in and did some computer stuff. I also called my parents and Linds because I now have the ability to call the US for free!!! Sylvia's mom's phone in the apartment has a flat rate international fee since her family is from Poland, so it costs nothing extra for me to call the states!!! Yay!!! I was very excited about being able to call people even if only for a week.
Then I decided to watch a movie. Sylvia is kind of a movie buff and has a rather large collection, many of which I haven't seen. So I chose The Girl With The Pearl Earing. Betsy had told me years ago I had to watch it (because of the whole "little scarlet" thing), so I decided better late than never. I ate a bowl of cereal and watched intently. It was a good movie, but not at all what I expect from looking at the cover. It was a very well done movie, good story, good production, good acting. I liked it, but it wasn't one I really have to see again.
Not too much later Sylvia got back. She wanted to take me to a German club thing so we ate some dinner in the apartment and then headed out to meet her friends. It took us a bit to get where they were and find them, but eventually we did. We all stopped a Kiosk (aka mini everything store) and got a beer. Sylvia suggested one with grapefruit juice in it since she knows I'm not a beer person, but determined to try it while in Germany. So I got the Grapefruit Hefeweizen and it was actually pretty good. I kinda liked it. Then we made our way to this party at the Papierfabrik (which translates to paper factor).
It was like an old factory of warehouse divided up into sort of rooms that were supposed to all be playing different types of music (3 DJs and one live band). But it sounded like they were all playing the same types of music called something like electronic music. There were a ton of people and some of the rooms were really hot and gross. We lost the boys in our group at one point and wandered for a good while trying to find them. In the mean time I discovered 2 things: 1 I didn't know how to dance to the music cause it was so weird, but it also didn't help that 2 apparently beer makes me sleepy. Either that or the combination of the beer and the fact that it was already like 2am made me into a Zombie Amber who was very tired and wanted to go home. Overall, it wasn't like any other club I've been to, but I like the clubs I've been to. I didn't like this place. Too loud, weird, hot, hard to dance to, and just not my thing. Sylvia said it is a very German kind of club party thing, I think I'd pass.
We left the club and headed for the train station. We had to wait a bit, but then we got on, got home and went to bed. I'm still not overwhelmingly impressed with Germany.
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