Sunday at the theater.

After my first week of German school, a nice slow-paced weekend was perfect for me. On saturday I went shopping with my host mother and brother at the mall, I needed a jacket for winter. We went to a bunch of shops, but I couldn't find anything. I found one jacket that I liked, but the first size I tried on had really short sleeves, and the next size up the sleeves were the same, but the jecket almost whent down to my knees. I settled for a pair of sweatshirts from the foot locker, my poor adidas jacket needs a break after being worn every day for a month. Hopefully next time I will find something.

That evening I watched a new German gameshow on TV with my host parents. I think it was the show's first airing, and it seemed to not be very well thought out. After an hour straight without commercials, the show was only two-fifths finished, and almost every question was a tie. Contestants were cheating now and then, and it seemed alot of the answers were purely based on if the host thought it was close enough or not. After the hour of waching it, I still couldn't quite understand the rules, and I don't think the contestants really knew what was going on either. There are six kids and three adults competing for some money by answering questions or something. All of the kids were playing for money for their schools, and one girl started crying when she didn't win the money her school needed to install proper equipment in its gymnasium. It was clearly a rip-off of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" but it was nearly unwatchable for me. Maybe I'm being too harsh...

Back to the weekend, sunday started with a slow morning of TV, video games, sleeping, etc.. At one o'clock everbody gathered around for a delicious lunch of roast pork, green beans, peas and carrots, potatoes, and pasta. Mmmmmm. In the afternoon, I met with people from school and we took the train into the city to one of the nicest trainstations I have been to in Germany, there were plants inside, as well as a small shopping mall, and it was like a big greenhouse with glass domed roof. We went to the Cinemaxx theater to see "The Bourne Ultimatum". The theater was huge! I think it was the biggest one I have ever been in. The movie was fun, and afterwards we went to McDonald's (which seems very popular in Germany) and had some cheeseburgers. It wasn't until the train ride home that I realized I should not walk from the train station home alone, but luckily one of the people I was with (Patrick) offered to give me I ride home.

Thanks for reading,
-Kevin


Here is a picture just because I feel bad about not having any for the last few posts. A shot of a beatiful morning in Hamburg (the weather has been really nice the last few days, reminds my old home town Palo Alto actually).