and she apologizes heartily.
And quite a few things have come to pass. First of all, of course, the seventh Harry Potter film part one has arrived in theaters. And this redheaded geektastic child did not miss it, oh no. This geektastic child went the sunday after it came out with her friend Jasmine. She put on her special crazy stockings, a homemade harry potter t-shirt and her Time Turner (aka harry potter gangster bling-blang) and set out in pouring rain on her bike for the train station about an hour before her train left for Waiblingen.... because she was really excited. However, coming to the bahnhof early wasn't her most fantastic idea because it is outside. And though she had a bench and a little roof to stop her from becoming excessively wet, it was cold. Very, unbaribly cold (such as it normally is in November, go figure). So she read what she could of the her German copy of Harry Potter trying to finish anough that she remembers everything and waited for the train. People came and left, leaving her alone on the cold bench until finally the time came to leave... and the train was twenty minutes late. OF COURSE. But it all went fine. She and her friend walked two blocks to the theater and reveled in the warmth of the cramped theater with it's winding staircase. they climbed up and up to the top most theater, the one by a 1 stall bathroom that later would become an irritation and a relief as the movie ended.
The theater it self was smallish, but cosy with cushy seats and glowing lights hanging from the ceiling as stars. It also had a few strange differences from American theaters. First, when you buy tickets you buy them for specific seats like in dramatic theater and you MUST sit there or you would be breaking rules and system (something very frowned upon by the Germans). And also, each row of seats had a small shelf stuck on the back of it where the row behind could place food, drinks, and candy which I thought was quite better and more ingenious as the american ones. The movie was good as far as i was concerned. It was quite by the book except for of course the Horcrux scene, which featured some radical over exaggerations of things that were both annoying and innopropriate! but everything else was good, at least for Hollywood.
In the midst of the film I found that i had an incredibly full bladder which was annoying but managed to be less important as I became more and more absorbed int he movie, but when it was done and i stood up, I naturally made a break for it and came to the back of a short-ish line. we arrived home safely and I wore my dorky t-shirt (that was in german by the way) to school the next day and my friends of course thought i was ridiculous and crazy (at least I'm a positive American stereotype).
On Monday I got my first english test back which was a 1- (kind of like an A- except kind of harder to get) and all my class mates were very curious as to how the "-" came in. It ended up that due to my unexposure to English class I forgot to use my "formal" english speech and so, when one of the question asked me what the how the boy in the text we read felt about the girl in the text we read I wrote, literally,"He wants to get in her pants". Which isn't wrong but was less favorable as opposed to "He thinks she is beautiful and would love to be her boyfriend" or something like that. (Personally, I like mine better)
All week a bunch of my classes having been absent too because of teacher illnesses. Here, substitute teacher don't really exist. When a teacher can't attend the class because of holiday or sickness you just don't have the class, which is actually nice as opposed to pretending that you are actually learning something fom the substitute.
The really rouch day however, was Thursday of course. Thanksgiving. It is one thing to say you are not seeing your family for a year it is another when days like christmas and thanksgiving arrive where your mother's mashed potatoes and kisses usually fill you up with love and instead of the normal full table and fancy china and pumpkin pie you have a 10 hour day of school and a Physics test to study for. The only thing that was largely a comfort to me was the thought that after this year I will probably never have to be away from family on thanksgiving or the holidays ever again.
GUESS WHO's NOT GOING FAR AWAY FOR COLLEGE?
Deni
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