Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

You may be wondering why this is the title of my blog- Well I you may be more surprised when I tell you that is an actual sentence. I know I was. Here is how: Buffalo(The animal) buffalo (to bully) buffalo (strong) Buffalo (the city). so The animal bullies the strong city.  Hahaha.. I know it took me a while too.. Well anywho as you are pondering that here was how the rest of my week went.
Dating back til Tuesday :)

It was all going to be good and everything and I was going to get insurance and make sure I was covered on all angles.. but guess what.. turns out I already have insurance.. goodness gracious as my lita would say - that would have helped like 2 months ago when I was sick. But nonthe less I now know that I have insurance and can seek a doctor when I need it.  Well my tutorial was canceled as well-b/c my tutor has some run in with some glass and his foot = never a pretty sight.. :(  (hope he feels better) Then Class then AUFLAUF!! @ Parika yummm... With Sarina, Susan, Kayte, Steph & Chris it was a rather fun night ;) That is a picture of it.. ooo its soo yummy can't eat it all the time tho its so filling <3

Then Wed we had conversation class but instead of class we went to a movie.. in German but the title in English is - The conference of the Animals in 3D.. it was funny and cute, but I could understand it so that is all that mattered.  There was a turtle named Winifred. I know I probably spelt that wrong haha. But anywho after that I was gonna get ready for volleyball sad thing is.. Chels and I went all the way there and were totally ready to kick some butt, but we didn't pay because the office wasn't open so we had to leave, which ruined my night a bit, no well ill be honest and say alot, I was not to happy. :( oh well Win some and Lose some.  Then we tried to pay on Thursday but the office was closed once again.. soo Now I must wait until Monday @ 3 to pay for my lovely volleyball class I am a little bit sour but it should still be fun ;) then Thursday I had my tutorial and then came back and made some fried rice.. I was pretty proud of it.. GO ME!! I'm learning I'm learning there is hope and I would say it was quite good for my first try!
Friday was wake up pack and got meet up with Sam and Sarina for some lunch and then off to the bus to go to ESSEN for the weekend with IUSP.  It was a rather fun trip, when we first got there we went to a the Rathaus and had a beautiful view of the city: reminds me of Milwaukee kinda :) home = miss you

Later we just chilled @ the hostel and did nothing of great importance. Saturday we woke up and ate some bfast and headed out to the bus. We took a tour of the Dome treasure, it was a little bit on the dry side but I still managed to learn and have a bit of fun.  It was rather pretty I will say that :)  Then we had a lunch break - did not eat super healthy but I did have a Bratwurst with Steph and then we visited a bookstore and I purchased a German to Spanish Dictionary. Ik ik.. why did you buy that- Well I figured it will help me learn the Spanish language and the German Language, and I have decided Spanish is the next language I am going to learn - sorry Italian I will learn you some day- Spanish just has more of a purpose right now! Then we visited Starbucks and I found a drink I enjoy but its an X-Mas flavor = Toffee Nut Latte
Then we went to a Steal Mine/Digging place its called Zollverein in German it was quite cool.  It kinda reminded me of a roller coaster in the building with the carts, granted  I knew it was not one, but it was still really cool looking :) yay!!

Then that night I had subway eat fresh.. lol yep Ham & turkey it was pretty good with a cookie with candy pieces haha :) Then headed back to the dorm this was the night that I learned about Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo. It is quite a sentence.

Then today we woke up went on yet another tour this one is of Centennial Hall it was HUGE- seriously I can't imagine how many people could fit inside that thing. But the really cool thing, which now that I look back on is kind of silly and a bit pathetic that I was so excited for was that there was a race going on outside.. so many kids and so many people just really made me inspired to run that marathon like I want to within 3 years.  They were soo cute and just so you know that girl in the white shirt with the black leggings creamed the competition :) Look at that form!

Well then back into town we went for yet another break I had Mr.Chicken-not so good, would not reccomend it, but I was hungry and I had already bought it so I ate it. But then I wandered around the city of Bochum with some peeps that I normally don't get a chance to hang out with to much so it was really fun. We went into a church and then another church and just tried to see what we could see even tho it was raining.  In the first church it was really pretty and I lit a candle for Lita May - God bless her soul.. LOVE YOU.... I think the picture is pretty artistic too <3

The second church was an Evangelist church and it held mass at 12:30 every Sunday in English and they have Priests from all over the world that come and preach at the masses. Again it was really cool, way smaller than the first church but still pretty.


Then back to the bus to head off to our final destination on this trip the Mine Nachtigallstollen- Nightingale I believe. We had to wear Hard hats.. :) woo hoo for that, I think we pulled them off quite well! Oh and my quads had a good work out seeing as I had to squat walk through most of it because I was too tall :) But all in all was a good turn out.

Essen was the given the Title the capital of Culture in 2010 - fun fact and it was mainly the starting point or the foundation of the Industrial Revolution of Steal and coal :) way cool and that totally ties into my Industrial Revolution class- Possible bonus points haha well we shall see :)
Well now I am sitting here and I should unpack and work on my paper or call it a night and just relax.. I know what I should do but who knows what I'm going to do. Well love and miss you all - hope your weekend was filled with better weather than mine was and that you have a fantasizes Sunday evening :)