After yet another shitty week at the lab, I
was (almost) literally bursting with excitement on Friday morning! I arrived in
Mannheim and bought some yellow socks. This is clearly the sign of an excellent
weekend, clearly.
I first met Justin, from Freiburg. We then
had the best Eiskafee, ever. Met CC next, and then we did our epic
fan-girl-style run towards David as he alighted his train. We are just so cool.
At Catherine’s, we had the most phenomenal cake ever. I knew there was a reason
I was friends with these guys…
Through Skyping Prioty across the pond and meeting Yuliya later in the evening, the
gang was finally back together again! And then ensured a plentiful of eating
and drinking and a little more drinking. Naturally, this was followed by crazy
dancing in a not-so-crazy German club. Stumbling home at 4.30am, we stayed up
and nattered all the way up until when David had to leave for his train. An
emotional “Tschussy”, and then at 7.30am, we crashed.
The following day was my 6th
tour of Heidelberg. Quite the professional tour guide by now, I like to think.
Fireworks by the castle/old bridge in the evening, and then of course the
drinking continued. Missing the last bus home wasn’t too great – another
5am-half-hour-walk home.
Lucky for me, I had a meeting with my
supervisor scheduled for 9am. Subsequently canceled, but it meant we made it to
Merlin, the pub with the awesome breakfasts!
Another Tschussy for Justin, and then it
was just Catherine and myself. We nattered and nattered in the botanical
gardens and found some exploding plants! I’m pretty sure we weren’t
hallucinating…
In the evening, I had another dinner out
with family friends from Germany/Colombia who now live in Austria come to
visit. A little exhausted and all beer’d out.
Monday was shopping duty. Six whole hours
as this lady’s personal shopping assistant. We had a lovely lunch and coffee
out in town though! Monday was a sad day though – Monica (& Dana)’s last
night in Heidelberg! So of course, another goodbye dinner!
Tonight, another dinner out.
So sad that all my friends have now left
Heidelberg.
But it’s okay. I’ll see them again.
Somewhere in the world. We’ll make it happen!
We will most certainly make it happen! We have so much to natter about! Is that the proper use of the word "natter?!" Skyping in was the BEST :) Miss you guys and hope you enjoy the rest of your stay in Deutschlannnnddd...I miss it so!
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