SCHNEE!!!!

OMG YOU GUISE!!! I just got off the bus and THERE WAS ICE FALLING FROM THE SKY! SCHNEE! SNOW FALLING FROM THE SKY! THE SKYYYYYYY!  FALLIIIIIING! *dies* I was so excited, I was walking all the way home waving my arms around trying to catch it, I probably looked like an idiot :P THERE WERE FLURRIES OF SNOW FLYING AROUND! It was so cool! Then it stopped D: It only lasted about ten minutes, and now the sky is blue and clear, and the little bit that fell is all melted. It's a bit of an anticlimax, I am disappoint D: Now it's just stupidly cold outside which is not fun at all. It hasn't even hit zero yet, it's three degrees and I'm already wanting to start construction on a blanket fort, complete with perpetually warm wheat bags, a neverending supply of chocolate, and my new collection of books. I shall move in and hibernate for the next five weeks, and magically never need to go to the toilet :P It's only 19 degrees in the house, and I feel like an iceblock. It's waaaay warmer than outside, but really I need at least another eight degrees plzthxbye. I might ask Marina tonight if she can possibly turn up the heating.

Anyway, yesterday I went on an excursion with my film/lit elective to the literature museum in Marbach. It wasn't very exciting. The town was really cute, complete with medieval town wall and castle gateway dealie, and more houses and winding cobbled streets. All my photos are starting to look very similar. Buildings. I shall put them on facebook with all the others :P When we got to the museum we met our tourguide, who was really dull. He was a highschool teacher and he just volunteers at the museum or something. He was not very interesting at all. Plus, all the literature is by German authors, in German. There was a little bit of Brecht's stuff, which was kinda cool. On display were just old manuscripts and printed books and bits and pieces. It was interesting to look at, and I took quite a few photos, but that was mainly because I had to fiddle around with the settings on my camera in order to take decent photos without flash. There was a book that had survived Hitler's book burnings, it was all black around the edges. There was also some random stuff like statues of heads and letters from kids and mystery boxes and stuff.

I think the whole class was a bit meh because whilst we could appreciate the idea of the collection, we had no idea of the significance of each of the authors because we just don't know German literature. We also couldn't understand what was written. I think the tour went for just a bit too long. After that museum, we went to the next building, which was a museum dedicated to Schiller, who is some important German writer. He was born in Marbach, which was why there was all this stuff there. That museum was a little more interesting because it had stuff about how he lived, rather than just what he wrote. He also seemed to like collecting bugs, there were lots of trays of bugs :P

Marina went away again yesterday morning, so for dinner I decided to make some awesome fried rice concoction with the leftover steamed rice in the fridge. I totally overestimated the amount of vegies we had in the house, so it ended up just being onion, bacon, rice and egg. And vegemite because Marina doesn't have any soy sauce. Who doesn't have soy sauce in the cupboard? All she has is jam. SO MUCH JAM. Anyway, it turned out ok, even if the rice did go all mushy :P

Today is one of the girls' birthday, and her host family is cooking her a dinner which we're all invited to. I'd love to go and have a real proper dinner, but I just can't be bothered with the whole idea of getting there and back. It's cold outside and it's even colder at night. I'm such a piker, I'm always too lazy to go out once I'm home. Meh. We shall see.