so it turns out the instant coffee i bought here is decaffeinated. no wonder i've been having headaches for the last week! i thought it was just the weather. it says on the back, but nothing on the front says there's no caffeine. stupid german instant coffee. ah well ( Read more... )

nu. so yesterday eva and magdalena and i went to the schokoladen - which is right by this shop i used to go to all the time when i lived in bonn. somehow i never knew about the chocolate place. probably for the best - it would have been my financial ruin. but i got a chocolate macchiato and we split a chocolate fondue and it was delicious. i ate ( Read more... )

i never thought i'd be impressed by the amount of "diversity" in bonn. seriously. i think i saw more black people in 4 hours in bonn than i did the whole month in lithuania ( Read more... )

coming to germany early was a great decision. yesterday i hung out with eva, and then anna and then anna and lawrence, and then laura and jeff and genevieve and her husband chris. also, anna and laura both are leaving today, so i wouldn't have gotten to see them had i come tonight like originally planned. also! gen invited me and jeff over to play ( Read more... )

czech airlines gave us "sandwiches"! i use the term loosely. here are the ingredients for my "turkey baguette":

Ingredients: pastry - wheat flour, water, yeast, salt, fat, enhancement agent, milk powder, sugar; turkey pudding - turkey breast, water, potato and modified starch, carrageenan and xanthan thickening agents, salt, spice mixture, ( Read more... )

sitting in the airport in vilna. headed to prague then frankfurt then bonn. excited for germanyness. missing miriam. tired. don't like packing. don't like airports. want a döner. und so weiter.

so. boo tom. he's not showing up at all now, at least not when i will be in europe. so, i have an $80 tuesday night plane ticket from warsaw to bonn for nothing. lame. but i really really don't want to go to warsaw. i was only going to see him. so. being fiscally irresponsible as i am, i bought a new plane ticket for tomorrow from vilna to ( Read more... )

so. thursday was drinking party night. we went to some local brewery. they had a whole page of "beer cocktails" which were like, beer with flavored syrup in them... yeah. i was glad i just got regular beer, because the syrupy ones were kinda gross. then we went to some bar where we had to walk through these velvet curtain things, and i was the only ( Read more... )

You'd think Lithuanians had never seen a queer couple before... Jus' sayin'.

ah. today was wonderful. i am going to type an update to post later so i don't forget. but so, the kgb/genocide museum isn't open on mondays, so we ended up at vero cafe until like 16.00, then we went to this talk by the lithuanian jewish community, which i wasn't sure i would really care about but then ended up being pretty interesting, like ( Read more... )