update

Hello dear friends! So I have officially been here for over a week, how crazy is that! I already feel pretty comfortable here (with the exception of not being able to understand a good 80% of anything people say - Germans talk very fast) and our group has fallen into a good pattern. We do stuff in big groups or we don't, and we all talk with each other, nobody is being drama queens (yet. Let's keep it that way folks!)

Speaking of doing things together, on Saturday 14 of us went to this place that one of the RMs used to go to that had Meter Pizzas. We ordered two, and while I ate a salad because I was feeling like I needed veggies (thank you Kelli, you have put it into my mind that I'm going to get scurvy from not eating fresh things!) those pizzas looked/smelled soo good. They were huge, I mean a meter in diameter, thats roughly 2,512 square inches of pizza (if my math is correct, which I believe it is but then again I haven't taken a math class since calculus junior year - ps how many times do you think I can use parentheses in this one post?). As for my salad, best salad I've ever had and it was only 3 euro, my dinner was cheaper than the pizza dinner.



I think that my favorite thing to eat here is the pretzels. They are super good, but then again pretty much all the bread is super good and there are Backereis everywhere.

Oh, and here is my weird German culture thing of the day: they wear all their clothes many times before washing them. Like I am totally OK with pants being worn many times, but for the most part, I think it's weird to wear shirts or socks more than once. However, I do come from a place where it gets rather warmish so sweating is an issue whereas here you have to try to sweat. Anyway, the point of this is that my Hausmutter does our laundry (most of the Hausmutters do - I think its a big deal to have a laundry machine here, she doesn't even have a dryer) and it makes me feel like an American pig if I have a lot of laundry to be done. Kelsey lived in Germany for like 3 years and so she lives like a German anyway and she isn't an American Pig.

Oh, and I made a friend, for those of you that didn't see on facebook. One of the members of the Bishopric invited us over for some snacks on Sunday night and about 12 of us went. They are from England but have lived in Germany for 12 years and he talked to us about everything and really tried to make us feel comfortable here. Their youngest is 12 and she and I became friends. It all started when I commented on her fun nail polish and told her about the fun things my friends and I did with our nails. Then she found out I was from LA and asked if I saw any movie stars and I told her that we see a few (which is entirely true and this made me so cool in her book) then when we left she commented on my bow and brought me my jacket. We're besties now. (sorry that was a long story, but she is just so cute!)

Since my last post we have seen the Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, part of the German Historical Museum, the Bode Museum, watched Iron Man 2 (in German even though we could have seen it in English. btw, they sell beer at movie theaters and the seats are reserved). And if you want to learn more about any of those things, look it up yourself because I already had to write reports on it all for my class and I don't want to write it again.