After travelling solo for a while, I was excited to find Lisa again in her hometown. Dresden is the capital of Saxony. It is beautiful (one of the only beautiful big cities of Germany apparently), and historical. It's a great city but really what made it amazing was the great people!
Friday, May 29th
Lisa and Max (her awesome bf) arrived at the Neustadt train station at the same time as me and we all made our way to Lisa's parents' house.
We took one of those trams that travels up and down hills.... no idea what they are called....
L'aventure commence!!
The view of ...something
Too busy having fun; didn't take any pictures
That night we went to a bar for her friend Josie's birthday which we celebrated into at midnight! In Germany, you cannot say happy birthday the day before you HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT :P Then there was a homemade quarkcake (like cheesecake) by Sandra (who was with us in Berlin) nomnomnom (I was staring at the time waiting for it to be midnight so that we could eat it). Then we went dancing until 4 am at the Mensa (the student restaurant) turned into a club by night. It was sooooo hot even though there weren't many people but we just danced right through it until Lisa would burn her eyes with the dripping sweat down her face :P The guy friends that joined us were amazing dancers. I could have just sat there and watched ;)
Almost home and the sun was coming up as well as workers were unloading merchandise from their trucks already :)
Saturday, May 30th
Oh beautiful day
I love brunch
Made my pancakes for Lisa one last time ;') nostalgia already kicking in
We met Sandra and Caro in the afternoon to do the historical tour!
Max basically explained everything to me. Everyone was impressed :P
Inside the Church of our Lady which was completely burned down during WWII and reconstructed only recently about 10-15 years ago
Schlossplatz
Hi
Mural of all the important leaders in Dresden
Each one has a title like August the Strong
The most original one was "the bitten," the ruler as a child had to be hidden with other babies so as not to be murdered and so the nanny had to bite him to recognize him and save him afterwards :P
Pretty
Nymph fountain
View from above
Afterwards, we walked ourselves to a Beer Garten which are very popular
I am sorry this is a terrible picture of everyone!! But I needed to show how stereotypically German our snacks were.
1. Beer
2. Kartoffelsalat (in front of me)
3. Bratwurst
4. Bretzel (in Max's mouth)
Don't matter if it is cold outside. It is always time for ice cream!
(yes this is from the kiddie menu.. don't judge me)
We spent the night at the pub where Max works : Barneby Spielbar
Game pubs, aaaaw yes
We played trivial pursuit : no one won. We are all winners! :D
Learned some random, trivial stuff indeed
And we played "Who am I" : I was Corbie Smulders.... that's not racist
Sunday, May 31st
Last day in Germany :'(
We went to visit and measure Lisa and Max's new apartment for when they move in together (so exciting). It was big and beautiful (I'm not jelly...) and then we went to the Hygiene Museum. Apparently there are only two hygiene museums in Germany and so they try to make them international. We saw the new exposition on Friendship, which seemed very appropriate because this semester I made friendships in a completely different way and leaving them behind and living them from afar is going to be very difficult. The museum had this great design in which we have our own bracelets with a beacon that identifies us. Mine recognized that I was anglophone and so all I had to do is hold up my beacon to the information screens and they would change to English, yay! The Germans had more questions to answer for their profile and so the screens could tell them that some room of the museum, based on their profile, would not be interesting for them and the room's lights would dim. Pretty coooooool!
I also did not think to take pictures on this day :S
Finally we had a softeis nomnomnom and headed home to get our stuff and drop me off at the train station.
Saying goodbye to Lisa and Max was really sad and I really did not want to. We will try hard to meet again but who knows when.... siiiiiiigh
Saying goodbye to Germany was also difficult. Being in a country for which you are learning the language is so stimulating and learning about the culture and history was so interesting because I feel I have an education gap for this region.
Saying goodbye to Lisa and Max was really sad and I really did not want to. We will try hard to meet again but who knows when.... siiiiiiigh
Saying goodbye to Germany was also difficult. Being in a country for which you are learning the language is so stimulating and learning about the culture and history was so interesting because I feel I have an education gap for this region.
Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland!
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