Oktoberfest/ new apartment!

Hi! Sorry I haven't written in a while, its been a busy few days… first off, on Friday, Karen and I headed down to München for Oktoberfest. It was completely insane as expected, and I at least had a blast, (I’m pretty sure Karen did too…) we had reserved a hotel room east of the city, abt a 15 minute metro ride, and it was actually really nice, esp considering we only paid abt 45 euros each for it! Friday night, we went to the Augustiner tent, and, after not eating since about noon, we proceeded to get completely smashed off of a couple of “maβe” which are 1 liter glass mugs of beer (I stole three, pictures of them are on picasa  )
Saturday, after accidentally sleeping in till 9, we made our way back into the city, only to find it completely swamped with people. Because it was so sunny and beautiful and warm, Karen and Eileen (another BC girl) and I decided to tour München, which is gorgeous, and I took lots of pics, apu… We made our way back to Oktoberfest, and met up with the other fulbrighters in the Hacker Pschorr/Schottenhaller tent, and made some very good friends. (some of us made better friends than others) It was Italian weekend at Oktoberfest, so the few and far between Germans were hard to notice, hiding behind all the loud, wasted Americans and Italians. We found some anyways, and hung out for a good long while, also with a bunch of NYU kids that are scattered throughout Europe on exchange semesters.
Sunday, Karen and I got up relatively early, and headed into München for our last day. Karen, who had, the day before bought a dirndl, (see pics) convinced me to try on lederhosen, just for the pics. I should’ve known better. I am now the proud(ish) owner of some authentic Bavarian Lederhosen. I will eventually take pictures in them and post them, probably holding my Masse! Btw, liquidity-wise, 1 Maβ is about a 6pack of beer, and has the alcohol content of your average American 12pack. Thankfully, its good German beer, so you drink it slow(ish) and can actually enjoy the taste… anyways, Sunday was much emptier in the fairgrounds, probably because the Bayern-München soccer team had lost sat. evening, and the city was in mourning. So we didn’t have to wait in line for any tents, and ended up hopping from Hacker-Pschorr to Hofbräu to Löwenbräu to Paulaner to Spatenbräu. Needless to say, amazing. I poured myself onto the ICE back to Göttingen, where they happened to be giving out free beer onboard. Bad news bears. Oh well! I remembered to get off at the correct stop! I got back to my house around 8pm, had dinner, and promptly passed out.
Monday, had school bright and early, biked home, packed, went back to school for the afternoon class, the oldest of my students, and I got to interact with them a lot, we were talking about genetic engineering and cloning (they’re reading brave new world). It was great to finally be able to speak to students in a normal tone, and with a normal pace, and not have (all) of them stare at me like I’m an alien. Then, went home, finished packing, and passed out for another couple of hours. At 8, packed up Carina’s van with all of my stuff (it took abt 2 seconds to load both bags into the back, then swung by another teacher’s house to pick up my bed. Of course, with my luck, it also happened to be torrentially downpouring (note to self- lean mattress against radiator to dry it out) I moved all of my stuff into my room, which now contains my bed, a small schrank (wardrobe, and nothing else. I’m gonna need to go furniture shopping soon- living out of a suitcase sucks! OH, I just realized, I’ve been here for exactly 4 weeks! Yay! (sorry, still sorta spastic and exhausted- did I mention I only managed to get abt 6 hours of sleep all weekend?) The new apartment is awesome, its small, but very well suited to me, with 10 foot ceilings  I will post pics of the apt as well! So, for those of you in the area, or expecting to be in the area, chezSean is open for visitors! My one roommate’s name is Julian (yoo-lee-an) he’s 27, and finishing up his last year in the university here. He’s from the area-ish, and so far, we’ve gotten along quite well. Ok, I’m off to go do my first bit of grocery shopping, so that I can cook my first meal in Germany! YAY!