Hamburger, bamburger
I remembered on Tuesday evening what I had wanted to note on the last post but forgotten - a new one in the annals of people asking me for directions. I was standing on the S-Bahn platform that afternoon, waiting for a train and eating a roll. As I was very visibly chewing, a woman came up to me and asked me where the train was that went toward the main station.
Like I said, it was pretty obvious that my mouth was full - I had pretty much just bitten off a piece of roll when she approached me. Also, the platform was quite crowded with non-eating people, so it's not as if it was a choice between asking me, the chewing person, and being eternally unable to find the central station. I'm not sure why she chose me, unless it was the vibe I give off that tells people to ask me for directions.
Anyway, she was just standing on the wrong side of the platform, so, still chewing, I pointed (with the hand not holding the roll) to the sign on the other side that said that the next train was going to the central station. She thanked me and left before I swallowed.
I was only able to post this today because I've been in Hamburg for the last few days, my first trip since Fall Break. It was a nice time - I spent a lot of Thursday night and yesterday just walking around. I also took a boat ride on the Elbe and met J., another teaching assistant and an acquiantance from Middlebury, for coffee and cake, and we went to see an exhibit on Cleopatra and the Caesers. I meant to spend most of today there as well, in what I've read is a lovely botanical garden, but I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night, as people kept coming in from a night out, going out of the room to use the bathroom, coming back in, going out to brush their teeth, coming back in, etc. . . My bed was right next to the door, so about 5 a.m. I just gave up trying to go back to sleep and read until breakfast at 7. Also, it was raining pretty hard when I checked out of the hostel, so I ended up giving up the idea of the garden and taking an earlier train back to Berlin.
So I think today it'll be to bed early, and then tomorrow some grad school applications and lesson planning.
Like I said, it was pretty obvious that my mouth was full - I had pretty much just bitten off a piece of roll when she approached me. Also, the platform was quite crowded with non-eating people, so it's not as if it was a choice between asking me, the chewing person, and being eternally unable to find the central station. I'm not sure why she chose me, unless it was the vibe I give off that tells people to ask me for directions.
Anyway, she was just standing on the wrong side of the platform, so, still chewing, I pointed (with the hand not holding the roll) to the sign on the other side that said that the next train was going to the central station. She thanked me and left before I swallowed.
I was only able to post this today because I've been in Hamburg for the last few days, my first trip since Fall Break. It was a nice time - I spent a lot of Thursday night and yesterday just walking around. I also took a boat ride on the Elbe and met J., another teaching assistant and an acquiantance from Middlebury, for coffee and cake, and we went to see an exhibit on Cleopatra and the Caesers. I meant to spend most of today there as well, in what I've read is a lovely botanical garden, but I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night, as people kept coming in from a night out, going out of the room to use the bathroom, coming back in, going out to brush their teeth, coming back in, etc. . . My bed was right next to the door, so about 5 a.m. I just gave up trying to go back to sleep and read until breakfast at 7. Also, it was raining pretty hard when I checked out of the hostel, so I ended up giving up the idea of the garden and taking an earlier train back to Berlin.
So I think today it'll be to bed early, and then tomorrow some grad school applications and lesson planning.
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