First Weekend in Europe!

Alright, so today is now Sunday, and I’ve been here for one week.  I’m hoping that if every week is like this past week then I’ll be in for a very good time.  So yesterday, I did a recap of basically how each one of my days goes.  Since it’s Sunday now, I can tell some stories about my first weekend here.

So basically we have people from all over the world in my class.  In particular we have these 3 girls from Spain who all know each other.  On Friday after class, they invited me to go out with them that night.  I gave them my number and they said they would message me when they knew the time to come over and we could go out.  Well like any normal American, I went about my daily routine (eat, study, workout, study) and was showered and ready to go meet up with them at about 8:00pm.  But to my surprise, I still hadn’t received any kind of message from any of the girls.  I came to the conclusion that this Spanish girls in fact actually hated me and just wanted to play a joke on me.  Finally at around 10pm, they sent me a message to come at around 11:30pm.  I’m sitting there thinking to myself, uhhhhh what?  Do they know we’ll only be able to go out for like an hour? 

So I show up and am all ready to go and at least enjoy the short time we would be able to go out, but again to my surprise, we don’t leave until about 12:15am.  I finally asked them why we were going out to so late, and they kind of looked at me like uhhh, why not?  Unbeknownst, bars and clubs are open until about 7am here and people will regularly won’t leave until 2am.  So, due to my American trained body only being able to withstand a night that lasts until 2am - I was basically falling asleep in the club at around 5:30am.  My Spanish friends found this very hilarious and were taking pictures of me struggling to stay awake in the middle of heart-pounding music.  Anyways, we go back at about 7am and I just took a little nap at their place and got back to my apartment at about 9:30am.  Here’s some pictures from Friday night with my new friends:

This is me und my friend Sergio:

OH and this picture was taken at about 6:30am, but I was so excited to see this that I woke up from my coma for about 10seconds:

Anyways, so that was Friday.  We went out again yesterday, but this time we didn’t leave until 2am.  We went to this place at about 7:30am that was a giant market.  Everyone supposedly comes here to end their partying with a beer, breakfast and some live music.  Here’s a picture of the inside of this place, and you can see the stage with the band in the distance.

Anywho - I actually did better last night and wasn’t falling asleep until it was time to start heading back and was basically a walking zombie on the way back.  Haha, so all this to say, I had a great first weekend and first week.  I hope to keep having a great time here in Hamburg and I’ll keep you guys posted.  Until next time - God Bless!

8 August 2010 · Comments