Fulda, die Stadt, wo die Zeit im Fluge vergeht

Time doesn't wait for anybody or anything in Fulda. It flies right past you and before you know it it's the 21st November and there's talk of Weihnachtsmärkte (christmas markets), snow and Christmas arrangements. A lot has happened since the last post, too much for one blog entry really but I'm going to try and fit it all in anyway. Take a deep breath now...

Thurs 10th Nov was Kate's bday and I felt kinda sad being so far away from my lil sis, especially when I spoke to her on the phone and found she had been replaced by a bedridden ill person :-( Anyway, no time to dwell on being away from home, I had a visitor. Hannah, a Yorkie, came for a fleeting visit - thurs night til sat morn - 2 nights of parties, german food, german beer, german clubs, and 1.5 days of sleep with a wee tour of Fulda thrown in for good measure. Hannah left and life in Fulda returned to its normal abnormal self. If you can say anything about my time in Fulda it's that it is blooming unpredictable.

This last week has included a rice and water detox diet, followed by binge eating on Snickers bars, an unusually quiet Desperate Housewives Night with aussie burgers (burgers, beetroot, egg, pineapple, tomato, salad, onions etc. etc.) and 7 v tired gals lacking in party spirit. Then I played mediator at a fairly emotional discussion, then there was a totally wild and random night that included going to Wiesbaden (capital of Hessen) to see an out of this world band called Stereo Total (www.stereototal.de), then eating a really good Turkish meal at midnight before heading back to the train station to find no trains for 4 hrs and freezing temperatures and then taxiing it to Frankfurt to find somewhere warm to spend the next few hrs before the first train back to Fulda. A fairly dodgy club called Cookies was our chosen haunt but as we were all exhausted it wasn't the best clubbing experience I've ever had. Arriving back in Fulda at 6.30am was amazing. Never thought Fulda would be such a welcoming prospect... Slept Friday to be fit for the party that night - organised by BASIB, the Batchelor equivalent of ICEUS so it was my duty as an ICEUS student to be there. Was called World Beat and was basically a party with music from all over the world that no-one had ever heard before. V cool. Work on the Beer Project was done on Saturday, and v aptly, we were all hungover... Since then there's been snow, studying, yummy food and Harry Potter in German (I had to see it but it pained me to hear all the voices replaced by random Germans who sound nothing like the originals), oh and Burger King at 23.45 as post cinema snack. Amongst all that there's been 23hrs of class and a lot of time spent with a certain Indonesian called Ragil :-D