Week 6

Three Blind Mice and a Cat

Stress, stress, stress, stress and then some fun was a basic summary of this week. Between endless assignments, exams, and projects I barely have time to breath much less sleep or have any fun during the week. The whole week was spent preparing for an exam that I am almost sure I failed anyway so I would rather not talk about that. The weekend though, was a blast. It actually began Thursday morning before our math test. Karneval began and Thursday is women's day. We got up and dressed up and went to a parade in Beuel which was super fun and we got tons of candy and got to see tons of crazy costumes and people. After the parade ended, we sadly had to go back to AIB to finish studying and take the exam that night.

Claire's Birthday Parade!!!

The rest of the weekend was so much fun. We actually spent Friday night in because we needed to study and get work done but Saturday started off the festivities. It was Claire's birthday and so we were determined to make it super fun. We started by going to Vilich Müldorf where Maggie lives and watching the local parade. Afterwards, we went to this huge traditional German dance hall and hung out while listening to music and watching the festivities. We then rode to town and went to this incredible Italian restaurant. I will be in Italy in two weeks and I absolutely cannot wait, the food makes me want to get there even faster. After the restaurant, we found somewhere to have coffee and dessert because it was too early to go out dancing. Once we let the time pass, we went to a club near the Hauptbahnhof which was fairly decent but only playing weird German music and so we didn't stay long. We left and went to one near Stadthaus which was so much fun. They were playing like throwback American music and it was just a great end to a really fun night.

Rosenmontag is the biggest day during Karneval and the craziest place you can go is Cologne which is exactly where we were. We got up extremely early and went to the Hauptbahnhof and 7am to get breakfast and catch a train for the 11am parade. Luckily for us, it ended up working out perfectly because we got to stop and get coffee once in Cologne and we also found a playground to pass the time on. We then went and staked ourselves a spot in the front row of the parade. It wasn't long until we were being pushed out and our 8 spots dwindled down to 3. We still had an awesome view of the parade and got tons of chocolate which we shared with the kids around us and flowers which we kept. The parade lasted for about 5.5 hours but was totally worth the immense pain that my feet are currently in.

I'm dreading the week ahead but Paris and spring break are soon so I'm keeping my spirits up.