Friday, 22 May 2009

When I wore up Friday morning, I was still so tired from the activities from yesterday. It was hard to get up and get moving. At class, the guys were very tired and hung over from the night before. No one had done the homework for one of the professor’s class. Students were also falling asleep while the professors were teaching. It was a really bad day, so bad that at 12:30 the professors sat us down as a group and reminded us why we were over in Germany. After the talk, they let us go for the rest of the day because they were so upset with us. It was very bad and definitely a real low point in the program. I personally felt real bad for the professors and hoped that the students’ eyes have been opened. I did feel the talk was needed because it really could have gotten out of hand very fast.

The talk put such a damper on the entire day that our trip to Berlin was seriously being considered to be canceled so that we could refocus ourselves and get back to the grind of studying. Then, we gave it a second though and realized we were thinking crazy passing up on this opportunity to go to Berlin. It was finally decided that we would meet at the main train station at 9:00 the next morning and head out for Berlin.

After lunch in the Mensa, we went to the Leipzig museum to check out some more of the Leipzig history. We ended up just checking out the GDR exhibit instead, which wasn’t realized until about half way walking through the exhibit. It was interesting but since everything was in German and people were really tired, it was hard to be able to truly enjoy the history of it all. When we left, I separated from the group because they were going to go back to the dorms, and I was going to go back to the apartment but decided to look for a good map of Berlin. I couldn’t find one that I liked after going to a couple of the bookstores, so I went back to the apartment and made one of the frozen pizzas I had bought earlier in the week for an early dinner and to watch some South Park and do a little research on Berlin. After that, I took a nap and went around the city in the evening to take some pictures and actually buy a map of Berlin. However, all the stores were closed by the time I went out the second time. I went back to the apartment unsuccessful and hungry, so I made the second pizza I had bought and watched more South Park and did more research on Berlin. This research contained mostly of trying to find a good hostel and sightseeing tour. Then, I went to bed to prepare for tomorrow’s festivities.