If you didn't catch it in the title, I'm pretty excited for Friday. Both the US and Deutschland play games in the World Cup. Germany plays first against Serbia at around 1:30, followed by the US vs. Slovenia at 4 (both are German times.. Germany plays at I am guessing around 7:30 in the morning in Ohio?) But anyway, I am really excited about watching both games. Lisa said that she is planning to stop work early that day so that her, Emilian and I can go into Bonn and find a cafe or outside biergarten or something to watch them both. I'm really excited. I already have the German flag and necklace thing for it.. but I am on the hunt in the next 48 hours to find the American equivalent. I have a feeling that finding a US flag here in mainland Europe might be somewhat hard to do.. but I'm a woman on a mission!
I'm also looking forward to this weekend because on Saturday all of Lisa's family will be getting together at her mother's house to celebrate her birthday (it was yesterday). I always enjoy the times when her whole family gets together. It really reminds me of my family and neighbors when we would all get together. The Everling Clan truly is an extremely kind and fantastic family, and I feel very lucky that they continue to embrace me as one of them :) Also, speaking of Everling's and birthdays, Bertus has his 23rd birthday on Monday. Unfortunately, we weren't able to celebrate at all together, but I look forward to when I can finally give him his presents :) I love giving presents to people! I'm pretty sure I get WAY more excited about giving them than the person does about receiving them. But then again, I get excited about a lot of things. Which, if you ask me, is a much better and happier way to live life.
Another reason this weekend is exciting: I am days closer to leaving for BERLIN! I leave on Thursday morning and will be staying until Sunday. I'm (again) really excited! ^^ So far on my list of things that I FOR SURE have to do/see is:
-Das Brandenburger Tor (duh!)
-The Berlin Wall (duh!)
-Die Reichstag (Parliment Building)
..if I am able to get just outside of the city/have time, I would LOVE to go to:
-Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (the place where the Nazi party, headed by Reinhard Heydrich, presented their plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".. we're talkin' some SERIOUS history at this place!!!!!!!)
...ahhhh okay... I'm out of time at the moment, but I will be back tomorrow to continue/finish this post! Tschuß for now! :)
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