Super Bonn Bonn: Summer Vacay-ish

Well, that was the most bizarre and easy exam week I've ever had in my life. But they're done, and who knows exactly how to transfer grades back to UW, but we'll figure that all out as it comes, yes? We watched a newer German movie called Vincent Will Meer after our Medien test. Kids with tourettes, OCD, and bulimia steal their mental hospital's boss' car and drive to Italy. There's lots of car exchanges. Oh, when looking for the trailer, I found that the whole movie's on Youtube! So highly recommended. I liked Alexander haha

After class on Thursday I caught a train to Köln and met people at Metroplolis to see the new Spiderman in English. I gotta say, as someone going into this film apprehensive (Avengers stole my life and I need to save the rest of my fan-girling for TDKR) I was impressed! It's not great script-wise and it's not groundbreaking or anything, but the casting was inspired (Martin Sheen and Dennis Leary were amazing), Andrew Garfield has perfect hair, Emma Stone is always awesome, and I liked it. Thank goodness it wasn't in 3D, I could see myself hating it then. I took the Strassebahn back to Bonn instead of the speedier train because I wanted to enjoy the countryside, and get through another chapter of my book. Sometimes you just need to force your butt outside to a place where you just have to read! It's fun. That night, everybody (allll the Europeans, accents, and North Amerikans basically) spent the entire night chilling at Alter Zoll, which was pretty glorious, and I still managed to go for a run!

Friday morning we have breakfast with our Intensiv Kurs which was lovely. Frau Lüdenbach took a photo of us all and printed a bunch out and we signed them for everyone <3 Love it. That night was a Schifffahrt along the Rhein with our program. It rained, but we got open faced sandwiches and silly music, so I say it balanced out in the positives. But Saturday was absolutely amazing. First was Trevor's going away dinner, which was delicious, and tons of people I love were there :] Then I went to the World Beat Party at Nyx with three girls because everyone else is a straight fool, the only explanation for why they missed one of the coolest nights in Bonn the whole semester. I mean that figurative cool, because we probably sweated out a couple kilos by the end there. The DJ played African, Indian, Turkish, Portuguese music, electro-swing.. oh it was so awesome. I spent the rest of the night hanging out with some roommates in the kitchen. We decided while Football and Futbol are both cool, Rugby is completely different and we don't really know how it's played.

Now that's I'm just bumming around Bonn for the last week and a half, soaking up this beautiful, damp, 65 degree weather, I'm trying to use as many Gutscheine wie möglich! Yesterday, I went to the Kunsthalle for the Pixar Exhibit with Kevin, Erin, and Helene. It was AWESOME! 25 years of Pixar animation history, with storyboards, sculptures, character art, this amazing movie about sound design..
I don't know if I can pick a favorite Pixar film without rewatching them, but Monster's Inc and A Bug's Life will always be near and dear to my heart. Then we popped into Haus der Geschichte were there's a brilliant exhibit featuring the work of photographer Herlinde Koelbl. All of her stuff was beyond amazing. Beautiful, real exhibits!

Today I'm going to finish up laundry and continue deep cleaning. It's never to early to think about packing! :( It tears me apart to throw anything away, but I'm going to have to part with my towels and some shoes just because they're old and gross and won't fit, but I'm a hoarder! Skyping with Maurissa really made me excited to get back to Madison though.