alcohol is my friend

no more moping. clear out your fridge, look at fear in the eye. kick depression. step over rejections. open the window. breathe.
german parties. love them or hate them. on the bad side you have all the smoke that makes your eyes tear, you feel suffocated, the bad and expensive drinks, the terrible trance/techno music. on the other hand, guys who walk past you and half smile and you smile back and he knows you're totally checking him out and you give him the hottest look you can muster and he winks and then he's gone, engulfed by the endless storm of bodies. eye contact flirtation rocks, haha. :D
anyhow. i passed my first german test! celebrated it up real german style, haha. drinking on an empty stomach is a bad, bad idea. but being half-drunk is totally fun. incredibly fun. not drunk when you cant walk straight or have to puke or wake up with a hangover but semidrunk when you wake up you can remember what happened the night before and you have a gigantic stupid grin plastered to your face. xizzy came to visit me over the weekend. we watched grey's anatomy endlessly. she taught me how to cook! we sat at the same cafe for 4 hours with augustine malcolm and defan just talking abt everything there is to talk about between hot chocolate and kaffee and milkshakes and (of course, its never too early,) beer! partying 2 nights in a row is tiring. slept at 5.30am last night. went to what seemed like an endless stream of parties and pubs and clubs, whatever.
the altstadt (old town) at night is magnificant. you own the cobbled streets, the still church, the river flowing silently beside you. you own the moon, the lights, you own the night. and you can laugh and dance and jump because all this is yours, for one night, for one moment and there's no one else but you and her and him and that is all you could possibly want.
today we went for a picnic along the neckar armed with champagne (!) and ipod connected to speakers and lemonade and candy and clementines and chips and gossip and getting to know each other better. :)