Happy November!

So this week has been fun... last Thursday, I went up to braunschweig for an FSA conference, and got to meet all the other fsas from lower niedersachsen. they were a ton of fun, and we ended up going out to a pub after the thingy, and chilling out for like 3 hours. On Friday, my roommate, some of his friends, and I went up to Bremen to watch a soccer game (Bremen won 5-1 against berlin). It was my first german soccer game, and it was a blast! We stayed at our friend Philipp’s house, and got to hang out with his dad, who used to be in a rock band, and is awesome. We spent Friday night getting wasted with his parents, and then got up at 9 on Saturday to get ready for the game. We went to the game, drinking on the way, got there, watched the game, drank the whole way through, and then went to the folksmarkt, which is Bremen’s version of Oktoberfest. (for the record, yes, this is my third Oktoberfest this year) There, we drank, ate, and sang till our hearts content. After that, it gets a little fuzzy, but we ended up hitting up a few pubs, roadside food stands, and who knows what else. I will post pictures eventually, after a heavy edit. Sunday afternoon was spent in recovery. I was actually feeling pretty good, no hangover, no issues (thanks, BC!!) So mostly I made sure everyone else was ok, as I had been doing all the previous evening. Got back to Göttingen Sunday evening, watched the Formula 1 championship while eating döner.
Monday, I finally got my backup discs from home, and so I went about backing up all of my files onto my external HD, which takes FOREVER. So annoying. I eventually got around to actually re-imaging craptop yesterday, and, so far, it seems to be running alright. There are still quite a few issues with it, the main one now being that it doesn’t seem to recognize the USB ports anymore. Kinda a pain, when you need to connect your external HD to retrieve your files. I’m gonna give it a couple days, fiddle with the settings, and then ask one of julian’s friends, who did comp science, if he can come hit craptop with a really big hammer.