Freakishly Happy

This has been a fairly busy week for us Lee's. It has been so busy I can't even remember all that has happened!

Monday was my last day of Comp and Con, and we went to class Monday simply to play a game and pick up our tests. John came with me to class (I was told we'd only have to pick up our test :-( ), and he got to participate in a silly murder mystery game that really had no point, because we didn't even find out who dun it. 

Afterwards we walked around town trying to find a sushi restaurant using the map that my Dozent (TA) Luciano gave us.  He actually gave us two, but it was difficult to find even using both maps.  I had it in my mind that it was one place, when in actuality it was in quite another.

We finally found the sushi place after much walking and back-tracking.  They were playing the Beatles when we got there  and I knew we were in for a good evening.
In the center of the restaurant was a huge table with a canal  with  little boats that would float around it in a line..
This was all well and good, except for when they put a piece on that we REALLY wanted and it made ALMOST around the entire circle only to be snatched up at the last moment by the couple next to us. What made this even more heart-breaking was the fact that the chick poked at it, sniffed it, and then drenched it in soy sauce before disdainfully eating it.  Some people, I tell ya! The sushi was AMAZING. Maybe it was the fact that we haven’t had any in almost 5 months, or maybe it was just that good. In either case it was GOOD.  Then we walked around and window shopped around in the back streets of Freiburg.

On Tuesday night John met me after my class and we went out to a play.  Now I wasn't a good kid, and decided not to go to the short discussion of the film that was held for our group before the play.  We walked in to the theater and the stage was made up of 3 huge pieces in a tier.   Before the play started, several of the characters stood stark still on the stage for at least a good 10-15 minutes.  Once the play began they continued to stand there silent and unmoving for another few minutes. It was really interesting to watch the other theater participants reaction to this, I think that it would have made a really interesting social experiment.  There was a sort of tension in the air and people kept giggling nervously. It is interesting how uncomfortable silence can make people. 

The play was pretty disturbing. It was all in German so here's what I got from it: A father has 2 sons, one of whom ( the black sheep) is currently apart from the family.  The father and other son live with the blacksheep's beloved.  The older brother is in love with his brother's girlfriend although she wants nothing to do with him. The father is also partial to the younger son, which obviously does not please the older brother. The older brother convinces the father to disown his wayward son, which starts the son down a very destructive path. He forms a group of robbers, and elects himself as their leader and they go about marauding and pillaging and doing all sorts of nasty things.

Mean while back at the ranch, the younger son's crazy girlfirend plays with butterflies attacted to wire, and the older tells the father that his other son died on a battle field alone and unloved and to top things offnd that he disowned him for no reason (which wase untrue) which causes the father to die.  The crazy chick then sits on the dead father, and rips up all of the pictures of her and her beloved that the father had been looking at. 
Then it got really weird.

The girl and the brother start playing with mass amounts of blood and wiping it all over each other and frolicking with it. She started toying with him and leading him on which was weird. Made thoroughly disturbing due to all of the blood.

Then the younger brother reappears all muddy after he committed some sort of crime. All of his compatriots also arrive on stage very muddy.  I was pretty distraught at the blood and the stage being all nasti-fied.

In the end everyone but the younger brother is dead, and is lying on stage all dead and corpsified in their own pool of blood and covered in mud, and the younger brother stripped naked and sat down on the stage legs akimbo with a creepy grin on his face. He just sat there for a good  2 -3 minutes before saying "Freiheit" (Freedom) before the lights went black and the play was over.  

Last night John  met me again and we went to a beautiful church to hear a Bach Oritatorium.  It was really beautiful but I had a lot of problems focusing.  I would like to go to another Christmas or Sylvister( Dec. 29.)  or perhaps Three Kings Day (Jan. 6) Man do these people know how to stretch a stretch a holiday.

Tonight we had a Christmas party.  Several of our Canadian friends and a few friends from our program came.  I had intended to have a HUGE Christmas party extravaganza, but it turns out that a lot of people had already left for the holidays. This was actually a huge blessing that more people didn't show up.  It was a nice cozy and comfortable evening. It think had more people came it would have been a little too stressful for me.  I wore a really cute fucia coloured tanktop with festive sparkily swirls. This was rather comical because my armpit hair is REALLY long and carpet like (I'm sure you all REALLY wanted to know that.) 
We served a really great white bean chili (thanks for the recipe Jaci!), and salmon torilla wraps and veggie tortilla wraps, as well as sliced bell peppers, fruit punch, warm mulled wine, store bought cookies and corn chips with the chili.  Pretty darn good.

Our beautiful bed is complete and we have been sleeping in it for the last few days. It's great because it's much higher off the ground than our previous bed, which allows us to  look out the windows. 
Our Christmas tree is also decorated and I am so in love with it.  It has cute sugared apples wrapped in raffia and radishes that hand down in streams.  Tomorrow I’m going to put up the Clementines that I wrapped, if they’re not all eaten by then.

Well, we have a busy day planned for tomorrow. We're planning on going to Titisee (yes, its ok to giggle at the name. Everyone does and then coming back to go see Narnia in the Kino (fancy way of saying movie theater). 

I wish you all the best of day and my sister Jodi a very happy birthday! 
joni
PS I will add pictures to this blog sometime this week!