I'd rather die of fun...

This past weekend was one of the best I've had while here at Jacobs. It felt so good to just let go and have fun with my friends.

Friday night there was a "cheer-up" in CIII (one of the other residential colleges). During exams, all the colleges hold cheer-ups to get everyone out of their rooms and to get rid of some of the stress of studying. The best part is, they all have different themes. So far there have been cheese, chocolate, waffle, British, Halloween, milkshake, restaurant, and game night cheer-ups. Friday night was the cocktail cheer-up in CIII which my friends and I went to. It was really fun, although they ran out of alcohol real fast (free alcohol on a Friday night? come on lol). It was really fun though. Afterwards, we went to the bar for a bit, but it was pretty dead, so we decided to go to one of our friends birthday parties in one of the other colleges. It was a lot of fun, and just nice to relax and have a good time with my friends.

Then on Saturday a bunch of my girl friends and I went to Hamburg for the day. We walked around, shopped a bit (I bought really cute flats for 5€!!), and went to a really nice cafe by the river. It was so much fun! We were goofing around and took lots of pictures, and, again, it was just so relaxing. We got back to campus around 19.00, had dinner, and then went back downtown to go to the Freimarkt (like a carnival). I hadn't been at night, but it was so much fun! We went on a bunch of rides which was really fun too! We bought a large, heart-shaped cookie that said "Opa ist spitze" (Grandpa is awesome) and took turns wearing it and taking pictures hahaha.

Yesterday I finally met up with my host family again! We went to Freimarkt in the afternoon as well, but it was the Kinder Freimarkt (with smaller rides for little kids). I had fun riding the mini ferris wheel with my host brothers, and just being a part of the family. Enno was so cute--he kept waving to me while he was on the merry-go-round :). On our way home, we had to run a bit to catch the train. I was pushing Rea in the stroller, and while we were all running and worrying about missing the train, she was laughing and having a good time--she thought racing in the stroller was the greatest thing ever....so cute!!

Next weekend should be fun too--we're planning to go back to Freimarkt Friday night (a few of my friends weren't able to come this weekend) and I also think I'm going to make dinner for my host family one night! I'm thinking tacos, haha. I just have to get through this week first...I have too much work to do, ahh! But I'm looking forward to Mom visiting in less than two weeks!!

Jasmin went home this weekend, so it was pretty quiet. She got back this afternoon, and right now her whole family is here. They are so nice, I didn't really have too much of a chance to meet them on move-in day before they left. Her mom brought me a gift! She brought me coffee and a tin to put it in, some chocolates, and jam that she made herself! It was so sweet of her, I couldn't believe it! Plus they brought all kinds of Halloween decorations for our apartment--currently there is a skeleton with glowing eyes hanging in the window next to our door haha!

This week I should be getting some of my exams back--yikes! I can't say I feel good about all of them, unfortunately. But I'm trying to stay positive, and I'm not too stressed. I keep telling myself it's my first semester of college and no one does well.....but we'll see.

Otherwise, there's not too much else going on. Everything is still going really well, and I'm loving it here despite some troubles I've had. (But I will still be honest and say that I'm looking forward to Christmas break! xD)