So today was meh, one of those days where you wake up thinking in English and you just can't shake it. Which was a shame because if I had been thinking in German it would have been a really great day.


Things continue to explode outside of my apartment, and people continue to ignore them. Hopefully I will soon too?



Anyway, recent events!



Saturday night my friend Kelsey sent me a message about Baumblütenfest, which she described as a kind of festival dedicated to the blooming of trees in Potsdam. I figured, what the hell I don't really want to spend the day reading by myself in Treptower Park. So I decided to go mostly because I like riding on trains and I enjoy hanging out with people.


So on the train ride over Kelsey finally reveals that Baumblütenfest is in fact a fruit wine festival taking place in Werder an der Havel and NOT in Potsdam. Naturally I got very excited, wine is one of my favorite beverages and festivals are always good times.

After getting into Werder we passed a few wine stands and I voiced my concern that the festival was going to be a letdown owing to the sparsity of wine stands. Kelsey insisted that the festival was still onwards and that these were fake wine stands. I believed her because it was still early and I was well rested and satisfied after our excellent trip on German Regional Verkehr.

Our first stop was a prezel stand that sold chocolate prezels. I didn't buy one and after tasting it I'm kind of glad that I saved my money. The pretzel was really dry and the chocolate tasted like it had been sitting in a bin at slightly above the recommended temperature for a couple of hours. No one else seemed to share my opinion.

After walking some more we ran into what Kelsey termed a Weingarten, though really it was just the first real winestand that sold wine at low enough prices for all to enjoy. I started out with a berry wine of some kind, I don't remember what though (not my fault! my host explained that fruit wine goes straight to your head). There was a stage in front of us with a group of germans that would lipsync to American pop songs and periodically encourage the audience to dance. This was the inspiration for my newest blog, Germanpeopledancing. Kelsey and I "retard danced" (her words not mine) for a song before returning to our imbibing.

We decided that we'd had enough wine to enjoy the Ferris wheel (or at least enjoy it more) so we shelled out 3,50 and waited in line with all the other winos. The ride was really nice except for we kept passing this one house that had a confederate flag waving in its yard. I wasn't really offended so much as confused.

German festivals have way better food than American ones, the half meter brat beats the foot long anyday (though I didn't get one) and Quarkbällchen are way better than funnelcakes.

Corndogs still win though.


All in all I think I had about 5 or 6 different glasses of wine. I really enjoyed everything I drank, especially as the day wore on...


Baumblütenfest is a real good time, even if you don't drink. It's one of those quaint German things that you have to do every once in a while to remind you that Germany is more than just Berlin.


I should get back to my critical reading for my Jewish class. I've understood most of it but I haven't really read it that hard and my battery is almost dead.


I'm going to Kopenhagen in a couple of days to see Will. So excited.