On Friday I took the train to Oldenburg to visit all of the wonderful exchanged students that studied at my University :-) On the first train there was no air-conditioning. That definitely sucked!! Luckily on the next one they had it. When I arrived at the train station, Chris and Claudia were there to greet me. I hadn't seen Claudia in a whole year, so it was great to see her again. We drove to Katharina's place together, where we grilled out and enjoyed sharing some interesting stories.
The next day Claudi and Chris showed me around their University. It's really cool, and I am wishing that I had taken advantage of the exchange program that Oakland had with Oldenburg :/ Who knows, maybe I will live there someday. Anyway, it was very hot out, so we went to the public pool afterwards to cool off. Later we met up with Tobi and Katharina in downtown Oldenburg, where we shopped and then went to a cafe. At the cafe we watched a public viewing of the soccer game where Germany won 4:0 against Argentina! Was so exciting! :) Lots of screaming, parties in the streets, German flags everywhere (you never see that normally, just during the World Cup), people opening beers, police driving around trying to make sure people weren't taking it too far. It was exciting-something that I had never seen before. There was definitely excitement in the air.
That evening we all went to a restaurant for dinner. Afterwards we started running, in the rain, to our car. After saying farewell to Tobi, who had ridden his bike to meet us, we realized we had forgotten Katharina! She had said she was going to the bathroom--I guess we had all forgotten. None of us wanted to go back and get her because it was raining, so Chris was about to call her--luckily she found us right away, so he didn't have to. Haha.
On Sunday I took the train back "home," which involved 3 hours of sitting and waiting. When I got back I helped with the kids a little bit, and on Monday it was more of the same. We did walk into town and get some ice cream. My favorite place to get ice cream in town went out of business, so now we go to another place. But they don't have mint chocolate chip :/
Today I went with our neighbor, Anette, to the university that she works at nearby. Her 7-year-old daughter, whose summer vacation just started, also went with us. Anette showed me around the University, which was small but nice. I also attended a business course, which was interesting at the beginning but VERY boring at the end when they started doing math problems. He could have been speaking in English and I still wouldn't have understood a word he said! Anyway, after that Anette took her daughter and me to the cafeteria there where the students eat. We ate there, which was cool since it was my first time eating in a "Mensa" in Germany. The cafeteria was bigger than the one at Oakland University in Michigan. When we were finished we went to the town there and ate ice cream and went shopping. It was a fun 1/2 day :-)
The rest of the day has been helping with the kids, which is always an experience. I love them to death though :-)
Now that we're all up to date I think I'll relax.
Bye! Love, Molly
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