old, cold and NOT ENGLISH!

Well, I should have more to report on, but it's been mostly museums and I am getting all museum-ed out! Though we did get to see the Old Gallery and that had a bunch of paintings in it and I love me some paintings. I am one of those people that can sit in front of a painting and just stare at it and be happy (most paintings, but not all, some are gruesome or just plain dull). Before that, all our museums had been full of old crap! I really don't care about the pots and pot fragments they found or the bazillions of old coins. I am just not interested in that kind of stuff, I prefer paintings and parks/landscaping.

We also took a short day trip to Stettin in Poland (I can't remember the name in Polish right now). It's just on the border and Nathan found us a great deal so it was super cheap and 30 of us took the 2 hour train trip. However, when we got there it was super cold and rainy and so we stayed for 3 hours and left (we weren't planning on staying much longer than that anyway, it was meant to be a short trip). We did see some pretty churches though.

Speaking of rain, this afternoon was the first day in about a week and a half that the sun came out. I went for a lovely walk before my skype date with my mom. If it keeps being cold like it has, I am going to go mad! I love the rain, but I was just not prepared for this and do not have warm enough clothes to enjoy it and you can't have a picnic on wet grass.

Also, I am getting a little sick of all this German. I came here to learn the language, and I am trying even if I could be trying a little harder, but it's just so hard! The Germans speak so fast so most of the time I can't pick up a word of what they are saying. I want to understand it all already, it makes me uncomfortable to not understand.