Post# ?? Wochenende Nr. 8

This was a somewhat relaxing weekend.

At first, I had plans to visit Dorian Hall in Berlin, but in the end the ticket would have been 220€, so I decided against it. But in order to find that out, I was up at 3 in the morning, ready to catch the train from Klinikum Großhadern at 4:13, but at 4:12 I couldn't exactly remember if I'd locked my door, so I had to run back, and wound up needing to catch the train at 5:03. I wound up wandering the Hauptbahnhof until 6:30 gathering information about train schedules and possible other destinations that Dorian and I could meet up at. So, hopefully, we can meet up in Bayreuth on the weekend of August 1.

After I got back from this excursion, I slept for a few hours, and got up in time to be on Marienplatz at 12 Mittag. I didn't realize it until then, but at 12 that day was the official start of the Christopher Street Day Parade from Marienplatz to Müllerstraße. After watching this for a while, I went to the Westfriedhof and switched my iPod to Mahler's 2nd Symphony. It was a nice almost 2 hours. The Westfriedhof is very big, but not as old as the Alte Südfriedhof. (By the way, a Friedhof is a graveyard). But despite the depressing sounding nature of an excursion of this type, it actually isn't. The Friedhöfe here are very well kept, and with the amount of flowers that are placed around on the graves, it would be hard to feel depressed while there.

On Sunday, I went to Alter Peter for Mass, then spent the rest of the day quietly either wandering around the middle of the city, or back at my room.

Post#?? BMW Woche Nr. 8

Montag

Dienstag

Mittwoch

Donnerstag

Mittagessen: Wurstlasagna mit Mozzarrella und Gemüse. Es schmeckt sehr gut.

Ich habe mit einen total Fremde Person über einen Handy gesprochen. Es ist ziemlich gut gegangen.

Freitag

Post #?? Weekend in München

Well, yesterday was spent traveling with my Ansprechspartner Gunter to Motorrad Days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on his motorcycle. It was a fun day; 2 hours there and 2 hours back. I have come to the conclusion that riding on the back of a motorcycle is like riding a horse. In order to keep steady, you have to use your legs to lower the center of gravity below the level of the spine(of the horse) or the seat(of the motorcycle). It was definitely interesting going at 150 km/h on a motorbike for the first time. Motorrad Days was a fun event. It was held at the base of the Zugspitze in Garmisch and there were a lot of motorräder there. For lunch, we went up the ski-lift and had a meal of bier, semmelknodel, sauerkraut, and the back of a baby pig. On the way back from this event, we made a stop in Trudering for ice cream. Unfortunately, a woman backed into Gunter's parked Motorrad and it tipped over onto the sidewalk. No major damage, just paint and a new side box.

Today, after going to church at Sankt Peter, it rained pretty heavily, so, since I had my trombone with me, I took it and practiced under the umbrellas on Marienplatz during the rain. It was pretty cool. It didn't last a very long time though.

Now, I'm just waiting for a little while before heading down to the free showing of Lohengrin at the Staatstheater.