Okay, I am back. I am currently sitting in one of the 2 Starbucks here in Bonn using their free WiFi (and when I say "free" I of course mean "4 Euro that I had to pay for a common cup of coffee... f'ing Starbucks).. but alas here I am. And yes, Travis, I too immediately thought of the scene from Best in Show when the woman and man are telling the story of how they met while sitting at opposite Starbucks. Oh my God. I feel like such a tool. Here I am, sitting on my laptop, in a Starbucks, drinking a ridiculously over-priced coffee, and updating my blog. I am such a douche. Oh well, might as well embrace it, because I have no idea when I'll have internet again at home, so got to use it up while I can. So with calling myself a tool out of the way, what has been going on with me? Not anything too exciting, but as the weather is finally becoming nicer I find myself falling in love with Bonn all over again. It truly is a completely different city when the sun is shining and everyone is out and about. I went back over a few of my blogs, and I don't know what my deal was. I think I was just in one of my home-sickness phases, because as I was walking around the town this past weekend (which was absolutely GORGEOUS out btw) I was reminded of all the things I love so much about life here. Even now as I sit in a Starbucks, I can look out the window to the see all the people walking and riding bikes on the cobblestone with the amazing Bonner Münster (the basilica of Bonn) towering in the background. It's not as grand, or old as the Kölner Dom, but it leaves my breathless every time I see it just the same. This past weekend I had a long weekend at the house by myself. Everyone but me (for once) in the house was starting to get sick at the beginning of last week. The weeks leading up to it, Kai and Lisa had talked about maybe going somewhere to go camping or something for the long weekend (this past Monday was a holiday here in Deutschland; "Pfingsten"). However, as the weekend approached everyone was feeling worse (except me, thank God), so I had assumed that the trip was going to be canceled. In the meantime, Bertus had told me about how he would becoming to Bonn for the long weekend, so of course now, I was actually hoping that it would be canceled so that I would be able to stay in Bonn and see him :) Well Friday finally came around and Kai and Lisa decided that they would still go somewhere, even though they weren't feeling 100%, and Johanna was at her mom's house with a fever so she wasn't going either. It was then up to me if I wanted to go with them or not. Of course, I knew my answer about a year before they even asked, but I immediately felt bad and guilty and nervous to ask them if it would be okay for me to stay home. So after self-torment for absolute no reason, I told them that I would prefer to stay home if that was okay with them. Of course it was. So after packing and getting their things together, they left for a camping place in Holland late Friday night. They were going to stay until Tuesday night--which gave me 4 days at the house completely by myself, which I must admit, I think was definitely needed. So pretty much right before they were about to leave, an unknown number called my phone about 4 times, but because of past experiences I have had with answering unknown numbers here, I ignored it and send a text that just read "Wer ist das?" (Who is this?) and didn't get any response. Then some more time went by and I got a message from Bertus telling me that the number calling me was Moni, the girlfriend of one of his best friends (whom I had met a few times before, and she is extremely sweet) and that she was calling me to ask me to go out with her. So I called her back and made plans. I was excited to go out for a drink with another girl my age. It was so nice. Her phone was dead, and she knew that her boyfriend Flo was hanging out with Bertus, so she kept having me text them like every 5 minutes to see what they were doing and if the 4 of us were going to meet up later, (for everyone who knows me, I am so NOT that girl, so you can imagine how much of a waste of my text messages I thought it all was...). So eventually we did meet up with them later and headed to a nearby bar where we all had another drink. After a little while there, we paired off and left (I know, Jas, I'm gagging too as I write this ^^). The next morning was sunny and gorgeous out. After being lazy mice most of the day, and after bugging Bertus like ALLLLLL day to do something outside with me (he wanted to go into Köln and go go-karting--which is nothing like ours back in the US, so think way more serious, and all IN-DOORS, which of course was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do on such a beautiful day). After working my charm on him (aka, wearing him down for hours and bribing him with food ^^) we headed back to my house where I made some homemade American cheeseburgers :) They were delicious. I also had Bertus find and set up the Wii for me after eating. Bertus had plans to go out drinking that night with some friends from his school, so it was good I gave him a good "base", and I was quick to eye the newly hooked up Wii. That night I had all to myself so after starting my quest for the coveted 'Sparkly' ball in Wii Bowling, I made some amazing guacamole and created one of my famous burrows out of blankets on the couch and started to watch none other than the Osgood family favorite of 24 (the 3rd season--its the season that I had started to watch like 3 years ago, and never got to see past episode 6). I couldn't help but want to text my mom the whole time with just "do-do, dee-dee, do-do, dee-dee" (even though this sounds NOTHING like that of the show, but you can't tell her that).
I made it through the first CD easily and started into the second before getting tired. I then went around the house about 6 times to make sure every door and window was shut and locked and then headed down to bed. As I laid there, I of course, knowing that I was alone in the house, managed to have super X-Men like hearing, and heard EVERYTHING and of course immediately thought it was the sound of someone coming in to murder me in my sleep. Nice, I know. I finally fell to sleep and woke up the next morning with the sun shining once again. The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxed and equally as nice. Bertus came over for his last night in Bonn on Sunday night and I made the 2 of us a nice and yummy pasta dinner and my favorite Caprese (even though I'm not Italian as he would say..) and just relaxed. It was so nice :)On Monday Bertus was going to go go-karting (finally for him!) with his friends, and from there he would be heading back to Mainz. So we said our goodbyes and I prepared for another night to myself to just hang out and do whatever I wanted. I made myself a really spicy mexican dish (it was soo good! I have been CRAVING spicy Mexican food for like, the past 7 months) with again, another batch of fresh guacamole, topped of with a Kölsch. I watched some more 24 and was perfectly content with my life in that moment. It was so nice.
Last night at around 6:30 or so, Kai and Lisa and Emilian and Quito (the dog) all returned, and thus ended my long weekend. I'm really glad I chose to stay home. Not only to see Bertus of course, but also for myself. Because even though I shouldn't feel this way at all, and Kai and Lisa are so amazing to me and I couldn't ask for anything better, I still at times feel like a "guest" in the house, and would never just turn on the TV or start playing Wii or something.. so it was nice to do anything I felt like. I know this is a feeling I DEFINITELY need to get over, but yeah. Well with that being said, me time here at Seattle's finest, Starbucks, is winding down, so I suppose I should wrap this up. But I will be back as soon as we have internet at the house again (tomorrow, hopefully???) to tell you all about my exciting plans to FINALLY.......... GO TO BERLIN!!!!!!!! :) :) :) Talk again soon.. and hopefully the next time I post I won't be updating from the shamefully embarrassing cliche that is Starbucks. Until next time. Miss/Love you all! xoxox Megs ..Oh, and mom.. I'll be finishing the last 3 episodes of Season 3 probably tonight ;)
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