Dinner and cake 9-15.02.09

Didn’t manage to do very much sport this week, had some days of late work and other days of not very much work and lots of snow in between. It was a great week at work because we won a pitch we’ve been working on since January and into which I personally have put quite a lot of time. I also now have a new phone, which is very cool . My wonderful pink phone is tragically on its way out. It keeps turning itself off and back on again sporadically, which is inconvenient in the middle of a call. I was complaining about phones etc when one of my colleagues offered me his old one that he had at home. Clearly I jumped at the offer and it’s great! Only thing is, it’s a dark colour and I’m going to lose it I just know it…

 

Other than work…Wednesday night, I went for dinner at Laure’s. I basically spent the whole day pigging out as there was some particularly nice chocolate at work and I met Alex for some cake (crunchy cherry cake..) before heading to Laure’s. She hadn’t felt like cooking so we dined on a sumptuous array of sweeties and wine .

 

Thursday I cooked for 5 of my Erasmus friends. Laure is leaving on the 28^th and Alex left Friday and is only coming back on the 28^th so we had a mini farewell party. The original idea was a bar but as there were so few of us I thought it would be easier if we had them all over to Kolpinghaus. I made enough Chilli con carne and rice to feed about 8 but those boys eat a LOT, so 1kg mince and 1kg rice was in no way too much food. That was really fun.

 

Friday night we ventured out in the snow to Universität to have a cocktail. There was an Abschiedsfeier that night at a WG nearby but I wasn’t too up for going as I didn’t know the hosts and I didn’t have anything to drink with me. So rather than gatecrashing we went for a cocktail at the SODA bar. MUCH calmer than the previous Friday.

 

Valentine’s day

 

It snowed ALL day Saturday. But as I had no food and overdue library books I still had to brave the elements. On the way back from the library such a blizzard started up that I called in on Laure to shelter from the storm. I must have looked quite a sight, caked in snow.

 

As it was Valentine’s day I went out, with 3 girls. In order to avoid all romance and anything that might remind us of it we (myself, Laure, Vittoria and Anna) went to find a bar in Glockenbachviertel. I have now located where the gay population of Munich hang out, LOTS of rainbow flags. We ended up in a bar which, although lacking a pretty flag, was definitely a gay bar. We walked into the strains of ‘Come what may’ from Moulin Rouge, the only punters were 3 men together and 2 other men lounging on the Louis XIV style sofas which had very nice embossed velvet upholstery. It was the perfect bar for what we needed that evening, an evening of girly chat and martini, no guys, no beer, and nothing to remind us of Valentine’s day.

 

Today I went for a run as it had stopped snowing. The snow lay ankle-deep in the park and was soooo purty. I had to stop and play for a while. I don’t think I got tooo many odd looks, a 22 year old making pictures by herself in the snow….

I have also FINALLY got round to buying myself a Bahnkarte 50. Now I can get my train tickets to Mainz next weekend. Bring on Fasching!!!