I just want to preface this particular blog post by
explaining that I grew up in long island, went to a sleep away camp in
Pennsylvania and am in AEPHI at an east coast school. Therefore, I knew 80% of
the people attending spring fest, in Munich Germany. (the other 20% are the
native Germans who went)
It is almost ironic that every Jewish
friend I ever met (or friends of friends) congregated in Germany. Although,
this as a huge weekend for study abroad students, such as myself.
Although I didn't know what spring fest or
(Fruhlingsfest
in German) was, I got a pretty accurate idea when
we went to it on last friday afternoon. We first went to the famous English beer
gardens when we got there. There is a famous Chinese statue and an outside area
with pretzels and beer. Everyone got huge mugs of different kinds of beers and
chatted outside. We then came back to the hotel and went to the metro to go to
the spring fest carnival !!
The festival was nothing like I imagined, it had rides, tents filled with people and tons of food stands. Once we went into the first tent though, we knew we were in the right place. Everyone was standing on tables, there were beer contests and I ran into a million people I knew! First we saw a ton of people from my camp, and we all ran up to each other. Some people I haven't seen since we were campers! I then saw my roommate from school and a ton of mutual friends! It was really overwhelming at first, but so fun at the same time. We hung out there and towards the end we walked outside as we viewed rides and got chocolate covered strawberries, bananas, corn on the cob and marsh-mellows.. (just to name a few things)
We then headed home and all went to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning (either from beer digestion or something I ate)
my stomach did not feel right. I ended up staying back a little later and then
met up with people after!
I decided to wake up super early on Sunday
and have breakfast with my friends from Rome. My flight was at 3PM but I wanted
to be able to do some tourist things before I left. We ate breakfast, while
Hannah left to go to Portugal and Lauren left to go to Prague. As we ate
breakfast, we passed the glockenspiel. This is when the main tower in Munich
city centre that plays music and a bunch of toy-like puppets come out of the
tower around noon and eleven every day. It wasn't as climatic as it was written
about, but still enjoyable!
This week in Rome has already been a busy
one! Since we had no school today, (it is the version of Italian Labour Day), I
did the Spanish Steps pub crawl last night. Today, I wanted to check some things off my Rome
Bucket List, so I went to the Key Hole view of Rome! This is where you look
into a keyhole, and have a perfect view of three countries, the Vatican, and
gardens. It was really cool, and I am so glad I went. After that, I went to the
Orange Bar in Trastevere, a neighbourhood near school, where the best blood
orange juice is served. It was so delicious!
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| the view once you have focused in through the keyhole! |
A lot of my friends from the temple
university program have ended finals and school abroad. We all went to dinner
on Thursday night and I could not believe I had to say good-bye to some people! I have three more weekends and I am only travelling within Italy, which is
really exciting. I want to be immersed in as much Italian food and culture
before I head home to the United States!
I land in the JFK airport exactly three weeks from now, even at this time!
I am going to Lake Como on Friday, which is a resort and lake town in northern Italy. Although, it borders switzerland, so I am going to be in both countries. You get to see the lake, and the Swiss Alps at the same time. The weather has been nicer, and I can't wait to lay by the lake and eat a home cooked breakfast at our inn! I will fill you in on that soon as always!
Ciao,
Ali
Ali
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