So last Thursday, me and my friend Frida (who is another exchange student from Finnland) got in a car with a Bavarian boy named Thomas (who later not only became our carpool driver, but also our Munich social convener and we changed his name to "Tommy" :)......and drove with him 5 and a half hours across Germany on the Autobahn (the German highway...LOVE IT!.....people drive super fast always!)
After talking with Tommy for about 10 minutes in the car, he had already invited us to go with him to his friends house for breakfast the next day, then go to a Frühlingsfest (Spring Festival) party in another town, then to some other place and then we could sleep at his parents house for the night!! hahahaha Me and Frida looked at each other and mutually decided we would love to join in the breakfast, Frühlingsfest and town party...bbbuuuuut perhaps we'd skip the sleepover with his parents :)......we did however somehow get to meet them.....
So the next day we took a train to a town in the middle of nowhere, were picked up by T., found out he had forgotten something at home so we just had to "pop" back in......went to his house, were invited out of the car and somehow ended up sitting on the patio, talking with his parents while they had breakfast and Tommy was collecting his things somewhere in the house! Me and Frida could not make eye contact during this convo, cause we would have burst out laughing at the wonderment of how we got into this situation!
Anyway, we left shortly after and were on our way to Max's house (one of Tommy's Bavarian friends) for breakfast. This was really cool! There were about 10 of us and everyone was in Lederhosen and Dirndles for the festival! We really had no idea what to expect, so when we were ushered into the house to find a giant long table all set up with warm pretzels, weißwurst (a special kind of sausage) and beer.....we were presently suprised and definilty had a great time! Tommy's friends were all great! Some of the nicest and open Germans we've met!
After breakfast, we headed to the town festival! This was EXACTLY like all the German Oktoberfest stereotypes! Picture a big tent and a Biergarten outside.....everyone in Lederhosen and Dirndles, sausage, sourkrout, massive preztles (like 2 times the size of my head) massive beers ( 1L in every mug)....a polka band etc. What a blast!
We didn't stay too long though cause it was our first day and we wanted to make sure we saw the city of Munich too! lol
....and what a beautiful city! It was very different from anywhere else I've been in Germany so far. Its only about 50 years old, but all the architecture was built in the style of pre-war times. I think I will get into that history in the next blog. Anyway, first day in Munich equalled fabulous!
Prost!
K
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