On Monday I had my business cultures final. It was simply just 2 essay questions. It wasn’t too bad, but I wrote more for that final than I did on the term paper. Almost 11 pages in only 2 hours. Whew, my hand was cramping up after that. I went back home to start studying for the legal traditions final on Tuesday. Then out to dinner for Italian food. It actually was surprisingly good pasta.
Tuesday I woke up to my shoe sitting outside my bedroom door filled with goodies. Today was St. Nicholas Day. It was so adorable! "St. Nick" had given me a “Germany” candle that my host Mom made the weekend we were in Boltenhagen, candy of course, a cute little bag, and a little bear. It definitely started my day out right.
After that I went to FU BEST for the last time to take my European Legal Traditions final. I was expecting it to be quite difficult, but fortunately I had studied just enough information to be able to answer the questions I needed to. After our final, Anna & I decided to go to the Kartoffel Keller to celebrate. If it seems to you like I frequent this place, you’re exactly right. I am in love with their food! They do potatoes like no one before has done potatoes! I walk in and the same waiter is working that I've always had. I guess I was overcome with joy to see a familiar face that I greeted him with a big ole "HEY." He stared at me dumbfounded.
After stuffing ourselves to no end, we met Malia & Reid at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. It was a pretty cool museum. They had a lot of modern art. I found everything really interesting. They even had reindeer in the museum. They collect their pee and sell it at the museum. Apparently reindeer can eat special mushrooms that people can’t eat without getting sick. They are the red topped mushrooms that are in cartoons. Well apparently these mushrooms are a psychedelic. So if people drink the reindeer pee they receive the high. It’s actually quite expensive to buy. About 1000€ for some. I believe that may be a big bottle though.
Also the museum had this exhibit that was insane. It actually was animal fat. It was huge!! They had several blocks of it in the room. It was quite insane to realize what it actually was after you initially saw it. The artist filled a pedestrian tunnel with fat in 1977. Afterwards it was cut into the blocks and put in the display. It didn’t smell that bad now anymore, just more like a strange smell, but I guess after it was done it smelled a lot. That is modern art haha!
After that, I took Marco to see Berlin at night – Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburger Tor, etc. Berlin really is gorgeous decked out in Christmas lights! It was so cold walking around though! I feel like I complain about the cold a lot. I don’t remember it being this cold at Purdue though. Maybe I’ve just become a softie now.
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