days 7-8: ulm

So right now, I'm amazed at the new Harry Potter theme park, The World of Harry Potter. Not quite sure what to think of this, but I'll be going on a road trip to Orlando to visit Harry at Universal Studios in 2009.
Today is post-Peach Cake day. Yesterday, Jonas filled me in on the history of Peach Cake Day. And even though Abraham Lincoln started Peach Cake Day, there is no Wikipedia article about it and that will change soon whenever Jonas tells me the complete history of Peach Cake Day. Our cake wasn't just Peach, but we made Jonas & Ashleigh's Choco-Peach Surprise Cake. Since the cake is gone and eaten, the surprise was little chunks of butter we couldn't mix into the batter.

I ate an incredible amount of peaches yesterday. Like 9-10 full peaches. You know the feeling when you eat an entire pineapple and your mouth feels like it's being eaten away by the acid? It felt kind of like that only with a peach flavor.

days 3-7: ulm

First, Happy Peach Cake Day! or Froehlichen Pfirsichkuchentag!



This morning I went to the market in the square in front of the munster. Every Saturday and Wednesday morning from around 6 until 2, there is row after row of vendors selling anything you could want as long as it is fruit, veggies, cheese, meat, fish, flowers or honey. I bought some strawberries (Erdbeeren) and peaches (Pfirsichen). And it's cheap! 1kg of strawberries was 3 Euro (~$4.00) and 1.8kg of peaches was only 1 Euro (~$1.30). I didn't mean to buy 1.8kg of peaches, but I was talking to the vendor in really bad German and he was responding in really bad English and threw in an extra .8kg. Maybe this is why I like the market. hmmm...

Shoutout to Jonas! For teaching me about the origins of Peach Cake Day and Abraham Lincoln. Because of Peach Cake Day, we're going to make a Peach Cake. Neither of us have made a cake without mix before, so the next blog entry should be interesting.

days 1-3: ulm

<-- Ulm, Germany in March 2007. I'll take another picture to show how much greener it is now. But you get the idea what it looks like . This is day 2 in Ulm, Germany. I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow blogger.com turned German. Flo and Jonas started a top 25 movies list and somehow Stefan, Flo's roommate and I decided to make a Top 25 things Ashleigh and Stefan have in common, so here it is:

Top 25 (not really 25, but it will be soon) Things Stefan and Ashleigh Have in Common:
1. We currently live with Flo
2. We like chocolate
3. We like Polo Ralph Lauren
4. We don't like the taste of beer
5. We're friends with Flo
6. We can't speak Klingon
7. We're both computer nerds
8. We like tacos
9. perfect cleaning up team, I prefer to dry while Stefan likes washing dishes
10. We cannot read Chinese
11. We work with Marc Hermann
12. We are both on Facebook
13. We do not like extreme cold temperature
14. Next week, we both will have Thinkpads
15. We both like ice cream, even when it's cold outside
16. We both have blogs
17. We like to chat to each other on Skype when sitting metres away
18. We like Grey's Anatomy


there seemed like more on this list when we made it up last night.

...I should rename the list the Top 18 things Stefan and Ashleigh have in common...
So this whole journey started in Hotlanta on 22 May. The flight was only 7.5 hours and the movies weren't too bad. The most random movie would have to be Cinderella, but I liked watching it. It was like a preview for the Neuschwanstein Castle. I didn't have that much to make the connection so there was no time to look for Dutch wooden shoes in the gift shops or anything. The next flight was only an hour from Amsterdam to Frankfurt. In Frankfurt I met Flo and Stefan and Stefan drove the 3 hour drive from Frankfurt to Ulm. By far the coolest thing I saw in a village on the way over was a horse in someone's side yard and a wind mill not too far away. We got back and supposedly watched Family Guy, but I only remember a few minutes of it before I fell asleep around 9 pm German time/3pm Eastern Standard time.
The next morning, I went to a lecture with Flo, and tried to stay awake by reviewing my German notes and reading a book, but it's hard enough to stay awake if the lecture is in English, and this was in German, so I kept nodding off and jerking back awake when my head fell forward. After the lecture about Bluetooth things, we met Flo's friends at the Mensa, the cafeteria at uni. We met Jonas later and hung out at his apartment and went to a beer garden then to another beer garden later that night.
Today was good. Flo went to uni and I slept in and went around Ulm alone. First, I went to a chemist to get some kind of antihistamine tablets because the pollen or something in the air was bothering my allergies, so luckily one chemist spoke English and hooked me up. Then, I started the multiple hour journey to find a USA-Europe Adapter. For the longest time, I could only find Europe to USA adapters, but at some travel store near the Munster had an all-converter set for any plug to adapt for any country, which is good so I can use it in China too next month. Then I took the scenic way back to the apartment and eventually found my way back and couldn't figure out how the key worked. Good thing Flo was home at the time :)

So that's about all that's happened so far. Not too bad for 2 days.

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hi, Ryan. This post goes out to you. so now you have another blog to read. the posts can only get better now.