yahoo ! we are finally a degree warmer than sydney

is been rather crap weather here... lots of rain. i keep checking the weather back home and today we finally got above the sydney temp. gott sie dank!

so there hasnt been too much mischief and mayhem at this end.. god trying to remember all i have done over the past few days.
went to a surprise birthday for a friend of Andreas'. its so funny to be in a room ful of germans and being able to join the converstion, although, i do find after 30 mins, my brain starts to weary and it becomes a lot harder... a lot of the time i tune out until i have to speak or someone is speaking to me. but usually i can follow the topic of conversation without really foccusing on the words.

yesterday bert took me to the east sea and i at least got to see the seaside... despite it being rainy and cold.. lach.

been planning the next leg of the trip and on friday i head down to Zurich for 9 nights and then to milan, venice and rome. how excitement. im looking forward to Zurich... thankfully ill be able to speak german there too... although all is in english.. and thank god...XMEN3 is showing there in english, so its one of the first things i want to do there is go see it.

last week, we (ANDI and i ) went to his home town, called Oldenburg...although i kept thinking it was Osnabruck. anyway.. went to meet his mum.. and his sister.. man, his sister talks so fast i think she is saying one big long word. his mum doesnt speak any english (ok she can say umbrella and knight rider...what is it with the germans and david hasselhof.....GO THE HOF!)
was cool to see where Andreas came from.... but of course we were there on a public holiday so all was closed, and it was raining so couldnt really do much. the drive around the city took about 30 mins.. theres only 150K people living in this tiny town.. very cute though.

anyway, thats all i can think of at the moment.. its been pretty crap weather so havent really gone anywhere other than oldenburg. did stop off in breme to visit friends of andreas' for 2 hours. so i guess i am seeing lots more than i think i am.

anyway.. will have more to report for sure as the week progresses.