Party Time, Excellent!

Hi everybody! Sorry for the delay, again, I wish I had good excuses, but you know... Actually, for awhile the only thing I had to report on was that I was extremely stressed about what I want to write for my thesis, and what to do after I am done with it. The first part is finally solved, taking only every waking moment for two months to come up with, and the second, well, I have just started to stop thinking about it.

In other news, I have not one, but four parties to report about.

First off, Halloween:

As you scurvy dogs can see, I be a Pirate, savvy? It was a really great party with a bunch of first semesters in WHS, so I finally got to meet a bunch of the new crowd who will inhabit Cottbus for a bit. None of them had to walk to the plank though a few of them did visit the poop deck.

The next three parties should be listed in order since they were all in three nights, in a row. The first, was, as everyone should know about me, my absolute favorite holiday ever, Thanksgiving. There was a lot of planning that went down for this thing, and my humble role in the whole show was making pumpkin pie and cornbread. I had never made pumpking pie before, so I was a bit nervous at the undertaking, but I was even more worried about finding a pumpkin. I finally managed to snag two small ones at an organic food store, and did everything (including dough, also a first) from scratch. It turned out mega great. Earlier in the day a couple of us went out to throw a football around, but not many people showed up. We were there for about an hour, when all of a sudden four Cottbus kids ran over and started playing with us. Eventually two other random people came, and we managed to play a very disorganized 4 on 4, that turned out to be great fun. Of course, the best part was later in the day when we finally got to eat, having squash soup, Ukrainian salad, a huge turkey, home-made stuffing, faux gravy, copious amounts of wine, home made chocolate, hazelnut and of course, pumpkin cakes and pies, and even cranberries (a hard-to-find in Germany). It was mega fantastic.

Turkey hats designed by a (I think drunk) art student from New Zealand

The next day I was off to Berlin for my friend Sarah's birthday at a wine bar that, get this, allows you to drink as much as you want, and when you leave, you pay as much money as you think you drank. Cool does not begin to describe such a great idea.

And finally, on Saturday, was the long awaited World Heritage welcome party. It took so long, because evidently, as a Bavarian said, "the (insert colorful word here) Prussians, and their (think of another colorful word, I know you can) bureacracy" made it nearly impossible to get things off the ground. Just to have the party they had to get signatures from no less than 10 different people, including the health department for the state of Brandenburg and the chancellor of the university. All this just to consume beer in the basement of an old Nazi-era casino. Well, it finally worked, but before this some of us went to an exciting Cottbus Energie soccer game to see them barely lose to a far superior team...good times though.

In other sporting news, me and an Australian girl managed to come up with a new game; Human curling:

And with that, I leave you for now, because I am pretty sure that I have some thesis to do...