i am having fun.
i'm having fun!
yesterday i finally woke up excited and aware of the fact that i'm in an amazing european city and can do whatever i want. i have officially decided to say yes to everything. yes to coffee breaks, yes to dinner, yes to movies, yes to beers, yes to dancing. yes yes yes yes yes. i am ready.
so when some classmates asked me if i wanted to go out last night, naturally i replied... yes!
we went first to a hilarious bar/ restaurant in prenzlauer berg, called white trash fast food. there they encourage you to call the waitresses "baby" and do whatever you want. everything in berlin seems to have a theme and this amuses me. they are very intent on having a good time and i am rapidly adapting this attitude. we had a few drinks and then proceeded to an even more amazing place named dr. pong. dr. pong is an overly bright warehouse of a bar that looks like the basement/ personal paradise of a teenage boy. there are leather chairs held together with duct tape, folding chairs lining the walls, something that resembled saran wrap blurring the windows and then one giant room with a single ping pong table in the middle. here you can play drop the paddle. drop the paddle is the most incredible game in the world, because my grandma used to play it at parties and subsequently i played it with my family. everyone circles around the table and hits the ball once. if you miss, you are out. as the number of people dwindles, everyone is running frantically to make it to the other side of the table and this continues until there are only two people left who play an actual, short game. it is hysterical and a little addictive.
then we went to dance. i love dancing in berlin. everyone seems to be dancing for themselves. it's not a show or a sexy girl contest. it is just too many people in a smokey room, moving and moving and moving. i am not sure where we were or how we got there or how i got home really, but it went on for hours. i am considering my dedication to dancing in berlin to be my exercise.
i loved being with people i didn't really know. we talked and everything was interesting. we're discovering each other. everyone seems fascinated by san francisco. this makes me feel fascinating by proxy. we try to speak in german when we can. again, a woman asked me for directions as we were walking to the club. i gave her directions in german and felt amazing.
today i feel good.
today means only a week and a half of class left and also robert's last day. tonight we will go out again.
i am in berlin and i am excited. i am having fun.
i am me everywhere i go. i carry my joy inside me. people can see it.
i am having fun. i am having so much fun.
