We got there by magic!

So there is this girl in our ward who is from Orange County, she is about 25. She only started learning German a little while ago when she moved to Germany because that is where her boyfriend lives. They met at Oxford where they were completing their masters in African Studies. She then lived in NYC before deciding that the long distance thing wasn't working out (I tell you all of this cuz I think it makes for a pretty cool life). Anyway, I decided to make friends with her because she speaks no German and that can't be fun. So she invited my roommate and I over for dinner one night, we exchanged phone numbers and she gave me her address and it was all set up for Tuesday night at 7.

So Kelsey and I go and get off the train at a rather ghetto area of town and I realize that I don't have my German phone with me. I grabbed my useless (in this case) iPhone but not the one that has her phone number on it. We were supposed to call her when we got there to be buzzed up. Kelsey and I decide to just go to the apartment building and see if we could find her. Now, we were going to her boyfriend's apartment because she said that it had a beautiful balcony that we could eat on and the kitchen was better than hers.

There were a row of apartments that had balconies in front and none of the others did. So that narrowed it down a bit. On the list of call buttons, we could scratch out the inner building apartments. Then we start buzzing apartments, asking for this girl who doesn't actually live there. At some point this guy shows up on his bike and rightly asks what we were up to and if he could help. Luckily he spoke English because I could not have described this in German and Kelsey had pretty much been silent the whole time. So this guy says that there were two apartments that it could be, one was some young guys who lived there. So he took us in and showed us the way. We knocked on this random door and it was the right one!!! CRAZY!!!!

sorry I'm so bad at telling stories. But this was amazing. By all means, it shouldn't have worked.