Random thoughts...

Guten Tag! I hope all is well back home! These past two weeks have absolutely flown by! My parents visited as I told you about in the other posts, and my friend, Steven Rosenbaum, who went to my high school and is currently studying in Italy, came to visit me for 3 days! I literally am with people (not including my exchange friends from MN) from Minnesota for almost 4 weeks straight! Tonight is one of two nights that I have from October 15-November 7 that I am not playing host to someone. I love having people visit though, I always do my best to show them the wonderful city of Cologne. Steven and I were able to get tickets to a FC Koeln futbol match this Tuesday. Going to a futbol match was one thing that I NEEDED to do while I was in Europe because at the professional level, futbol is virtually non-existent in the states. The fans were pretty crazy (though quite tame when compared to what you see on TV) and there was constant singing and cheering. FC Koeln is actually one of the worst teams in Germany, but surprisingly, we won! On Wednesday, my German buddy, Cosima, had me and a few other exchange students over for a typical German dinner. We had wurst(pretty much breakfast sausage), sauerkraut, and potatoes; I don't think you can get any more German than that! It was a really good time :) Sorry no pictures for now, my laziness has take over! Clayton is coming to visit from tomorrow night until Sunday the 7th. I am so incredibly excited to see him, two months apart is a REALLY long time! Tschuss for now!