It was a hard two nights but ich hab’s geschafft!

After staying up until 5am to nights in a row, and filling my system with copious amounts of Red Bull (see previous post) I have finally managed to finish my essay for my home uni. It still needs a bit of editing but that is a job for Friday.

Now I can enjoy the game tonight with no worries.

What Game?

Why the Germany v. Italy football match in Dortmund. I can’t wait :D You can bet I will be taking lots of pics ready for an epic blog post about it <--- It’s my first time every watching a football match live.

Drucken sie die Daumen (cross your fingers) for a win. If my luck today is anything to go by the we should be fine, I mean just look at what I FINALLY accomplished this morning. Yes after god knows how many attempts I managed to win at 3 draw solitaire (by new guilty pleasure).

 

 

Anyhooo GO GERMANY!

 

My can of Vettel themed Red Bull will help me through this tough night.

Right now my body is thinking “urgh it’s that time of the year again!”. Yes, it is allnighter essay writing, semester worth of info cramming time. Boooooo.

Energy drinks are my main source of nutrition during this time.

So I popped to REWE and found this bad boy!

Yes that is love of my life Sebastian Vettel on my can of Red Bull. I’m not sure if you can buy these back home (most probably) but I have never been so excited buying a can of Red Bull in my life.

Just in case you’d like to see a close up of his face, then this is for you.

 

Did I mention he’s doing the Vettel finger?

Essay fail

I have a lot of work to do at the moment. One 3000-4000 word essay for my university, a 10 page essay and a four page for Marburg plus 2 exams to revise for. As we say here in Germany time is Knapp and I’m really struggling.

Yes I know it is my fault, I should used my time more effectively blah blah blah.

But seriously my main problem at the moment is that I’m finding it really difficult to write. Maybe I’m just rusty but I just can’t write an essay anymore. Everything I’m writing is just descriptive and uninspiring. There is little discussion or argument.

Maybe it’s because I’m writing in German and not English? I just don’t know.

I think I will I force myself to go to the library tomorrow. I need to try my hardest to get my first draft of my essay for back home done otherwise I’m going to be seriously behind.

Urgh this is torture. All I want to do is enjoy my last week and a bit with my friends.

Happy belated 21st to me

A week ago today (Friday 28th January) was my 21st birthday. I wasn’t looking forward to it because 1. I hate the thought of getting older, and while I stopped being a teenager last year, I could say I had finished my teens, now all I can say is that I’m properly in my twenties :S 2. Twenty-one is a big deal, an important birthday, and I really wanted to be able to celebrate it with my family.

So when I woke up on Friday morning I had a little cry. I opened my cards and presents that I had brought back with me from the UK and my mum had bought me a special 21st birthday photo album. I looked the the photo album for a long time. I hadn’t planned any sort of celebration. I didn’t feel like celebrating. But how could I leave such a book empty. It was then that I decided that I needed to do something, even if it was just have a night down the pub with some friends. I got out my phone, texted a few people, told them the place, Desperados, the time, 21:30 and went to class.

After the class me and my boyfriend had Döner for lunch, which we ate at the bus stop (inside joke, it had to be eaten there), we went to H&M to buy something to wear for the evening (like I said I hadn’t planned on doing anything special so I hadn’t bought anything nice back from the UK to wear) and then we went to get cake.

I’m not sure whether the German’s do birthday cake or not. But I thought it’d be a waste to buy a whole one so we went to Cafe Vetter for some posh cake and hot chocolate.

My “Birthday” Cake

(Also in the cafe we came across a man who was dressed like a burglar.)

After skyping with my family (my sister asked me if it had been the “best birthday ever!” bless here) me and the boyfriend went for a quite and cheap dinner and made our way to desperado. Everyone I had invited except for two came. It was such a relaxing night. I had a lot of fun. Being around the friends who love me was just what I needed. I received some great presents, but it is the messages that they put in my cards that I will cherish the most. I really have the best friends here in Marburg that I could of wished for. I really wish I didn’t have to leave so soon. I will do my best to keep in contact with all of them. They really helped make my 21st birthday special.

 

My Birthday Presents

(yes that is a fake postcard from Justin Bieber wishing me a happy bday, it is another inside joke)

Birthday Biscuits baked by H, who sadly couldn’t make it. Yummy.

Meat me in Mcdonalds

I was supposed to visit a friend for dinner tonight. But while I was on the bus to her halls, she texted me asking if we could change it until tomorrow. I didn’t mind but I felt bad because I had blown off another one of my friend’s who had wanted me to go to Mcdonalds with him tonight.

Thinking about Mcdonalds reminded me that I was hungry and I could really do with a nice burger. So I hopped onto another bus and went to buy myself a greasy snack. I walk into Mcdonalds and who is there sat eating a BigMac, my American pal who had invited me earlier that day. Maybe it doesn’t seem like such a coincidence, but for him to be there at that exact time and for us to both be alone…well we thought it was pretty funny.

we ate, we laughed, we swapped stories, all in all a lovely evening.

In other news, I’m going to another Chinese New Year dinner on Saturday and hopefully will be watching the Superbowl on Sunday/early Monday morning. So a good weekend ahead, but first I need to get my work done :/

KOKOWÄÄH

Today was my fourth and probably final trip to the cinema in Germany. Apart from Goethe! which I saw back in October tonight’s movie was the only other German film I’ve seen here.
I was very excited to see the movie, KOKOWÄÄH, simply because of Til Schweiger. I became a fan of his work in 2008 when I purchased one of his DVD’s, wo ist Fred?, simply because it was on the shelf next to Goodbye Lenin. The second reason why I was excited to see it was because his daughter co-stars in it. I was really intrigued to see whether or not she’d inherited her father’s unique style of acting. The little cutie didn’t let me down.
The movie was very very enjoyable. The plot, without giving too much away, revolves around film writer Henry, Til Schweiger, who is suddenly burdened with 8 year old Magdalena, Emma Schweiger, his suspected his daughter. Henry is a bit of a ladies man and has no desire to have kids in the future. (It a pretty generic plot for these long lost kid showing up at your door movies). The twist is that Emma already has a “father” who is battling with himself over his feelings for a child that is not his.The relationship between the two fathers is not as tense as expected  and it makes for some funny viewing. Although nothing can beat the comedy between Henry and Magdalena. As I’d hoped the two Schweigers have an amazing on screen chemistry.
My only complaint about the movie is that at times I felt that the comedy was overdone. There were a bit too many “funny bits” thrown in when they really weren’t necessary, which ruined the plot a little. I think they could have simply kept Henry and Magdalena as the two comedians. In my opinion that would had opened up a whole knew level to the movie by the two sharing a bond of a comedic personality that the other characters do not possess.
Haha I think I’m starting to ramble on now. I apologise. But please check out the movie either in cinemas, if you’re in Germany, or keep an eye out for the DVD. It really was a great movie.
Here’s the trailer:

Happy Chinese New Year

Ok, I’m back, and I actually mean it this time. The laptop is up and running.

So I have a lot to fill in, but I thought I would start with the most relevant topic at the moment, Chinese New Year.

As you guys know I have a lot of Taiwanese friends, and they were lovely enough to invite a few of us round last night to celebrate the year of the Rabbit with them.

They made us a scrumptious feast of Taiwanese cuisine.

For dessert we were treated to some caramelised Strawberries and some pearl tea! (also know as bubble tea and tapioca milk tea)

 

The tea was gorgeous, although I didn’t like the texture of the tapioca, so I tried my best not to suck them up the straw.

So Happy Chinese New Year everyone, enjoy your 4/5 nights of festivities and look out for more posts during the next few days. ☆