After having the more typical start to my weekend, I have to say its very nice not having Friday classes! Yesterday felt like Saturday to me and I literally just double checked my phone to make sure it was Saturday. I definitely need to do some homework for my classes but the rest of my day is probably going to be spent figuring out my travels across Europe for the next 3 months.
This is beyond exciting for me because everything is so close and much cheaper than a $1600 flight from Los Angeles. I have a few destinations in mind that I would absolutely like to see, but I'm really just open to going anywhere. My program has blessed me with 3 awesome things : A week long mid term break in October, a week long excursion included in my program fee, and I'm allowed to live in my apartment until December 22, which is 2 weeks after my program ends. This is perfect because on my mid term break, I will probably be able to go to a couple different destinations, which I'm hoping ends up being somewhere near the Mediterranean. The week long excursion is to Poland - Gdansk and Krakow. I have never been to Poland and it will be really nice to have my program leading us on tours and showing us the sights. Even though I'm flying home on December 16th, only a week after my program ends, I still have an extra week with nothing that I have to do! This is really nice - any place that I didn't get to see that I really wanted to, I can travel to in that week. Besides those traveling times, all my other travels needs to be on my weekends. Other than those set destinations, I would love to see London, Ireland, Paris, Rome, and anywhere in between.
Yesterday I tried a doner kebap and it was so delicious! I can't wait to have another one and I have a feeling that is going to be my cheap dinner when I don't want to cook :]
Last night, we had a welcome dinner for the program at the restaurant on campus and afterwards I went out with a few girls. Berlin is definitely a night life culture, in that people of all ages are out (really) late eating dinner and drinking on the weekends. Its supposed to be really nice weather today -- low 80s! Hopefully it stays nice today and tomorrow :]
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