The weather in Cottbus has certainly started to make an interesting impact in my daily life. On Saturday it heated up quite a bit, making everything wet and creating deep puddles on all the sidewalks. Then, just to make things interesting, it decided to plunge into sub zero temperatures, for no apparent reason other than a deep seeded desire to see everything freeze. Well, Sunday I had an excursion to Berlin to visit several museums with my archaeology class, and I had to be at the train station before 8:30. I went outside at about 8:15 to unlock my bike, and discovered that not only was it freaking freezing, but my lock was no exception. I could not even get my key in the lock. OK, so this is usually a five minute at most trip by bike, and about a 20 minute walk, so at about 8:23, I decided to run. I started off well, but it was just too cold, and my pace was greatly slowed. After reaching the bridge over the train tracks, I received a call from Ona saying that the train had just left, and that I was screwed. I made it into the train station, breathing hard and spitting, and found out that the trains were running extra slow, an additional near an hour and a half in time. I decided to go back home, and said enough archaeology for today, coughing along the way, and nearly freezing.

Today, I woke up to temperatures around -2 F (-19 C) with the wind, again my lock was frozen, and went to archaeology for my presentation on slave archaeology in the USA for the class. We had to move to a different building, but had to move again half way through. So, during the four hour class we got through barely more than half of the presentations, and I will go in two weeks. Fun stuff.