Almost Christmas

Since I already wrote a really long entry, and then the internet decided to stop working sometime while writing it, I will now write about the last week with bullet points.

last Saturday-

• ice skating got canceled, sad
• but the St. Lucia celebration started earlier than I thought, so good for that
• girls with candles on their heads, singing in languages I can't read, and eating good food

Sunday-

• church and lunch with KSG, spaghetti for lunch, then baked apples with chocolate and marzipan for dessert, yum
• baking cookies with my flatmates, more yum
• meeting a german Fulbrighter who is studying in Greifswald, fun! We were at a cafe for two hours and I had had the biggest cup of milk coffee I have ever seen for 2€

Monday-

• Practicing with the KSG choir
• helping bake more cookies with KSG (reminder, KSG is the catholic student group), but more talking than helping
• met up with my new tandem partner. Tandem partners has nothing to do with riding bikes, but helping each other learn languages. She is German and wants to better her English, and I speak English and want to better my German.
  

Tuesday-

• Abi concert
• Abi is a term for the 13th graders, and now for the 12th graders in Meck-Pom. At the end of the year they take big tests that will pretty much determine their entire future, similar to the British A-levels. The concert was to raise money for the Abi Ball, kinda like prom, sorta.
  

Wednesday-

• KSG Christmas party, mass, food, then singing and silly presents

Thursday-

• Annual teacher dinner before Christmas. Good food, and it was nice to meet with my mentor teacher since we don't get a lot of time to talk during the school day because we are always running from class to class
• it was actually pretty boring since the teachers all know each other, but still nice

Friday-

• left Greifswald at 9am
• got into Berlin, looked for the cute boots I had seen five weeks ago, they were sadly no longer there
• left Berlin and came to Dresden
• Met up with Nadine, went to Frisbee training, the shoulder was fine, and we actually did some running drills, yay!
• went for dinner afterwards, it took about 30 minutes to get some noodles with garlic sauce, really, lots of garlic!
• Karaoke! But I only sang one song, and it was a duet, because apparently my piece of paper with my original song got lost somewhere, and the DJ apparently never got it

This Saturday-

• slept in, hmm, nice
• did some shopping with Nadine, still didn't find cute boots
• Nadine went back home, I checked out the Christmas market, really pretty. I saw Santa sing a song, with back up singers from A Christmas Carol, and also maybe a pirate?
• Made a delicious dinner, curry chicken with cous cous, leeks, and red peppers

Sunday-

• went to mass at the main church in town, beautiful, celebrated the fourth week of Advent (being reminded that tomorrow is Christmas eve!)
• had some yummy bagel sandwiches (yes, real bagels)
• took a walk down the Elbe River

We will be heading to Görlitz in about an hour to start the Christmas celebration with Nadine's family!

Merry Christmas!