last friday i found out that on of my friends from the account planning class was coming to visit. she is originally from vienna but came to SF last quarter to do the program with another one of our friends, thorben. thorben lives in hamburg in a really fun area called sternshanze. its becoming more of a posh area as thorben says but its got a lot of great restaurants and shops.
so friday night we met up for a few drinks which turned into a few too many. saturday morning i had class which was a little bit of a bummer with the hangover. thank goodness it was a great class. the excitement of learning new things distracted me from my hangover :)
saturday night i took it easy, just stayed in and rested. markus invited me to breakfast in the morning with his girlfriend. he was trying a new recipe in his yoga cookbook that he bought. it was a saffron and pistachio rice porridge. it sounds weird but it was actually pretty good, and REALLY filling!
after breakfast i met up with thorben and nina and did a harbor boat trip. the harbor is what makes hamburg famous and is something every tourist should do. it was thorbens first time doing one and he's lived in hamburg most his life! it was really fun for all of us.
after the tour we walked around the city a bit. went through the portuguese district and then to this beautiful church, st. michaelis. unfortunately, the interior was being renovated and you couldn't see any of the beautiful architecture. i saw pictures and man was i bummed. apparently, this church is the "eiffel tower" of hamburg. you can climb the 20 stories of stairs to the top and see the most amazing view of the city! it was really windy at the top. i realized i was in such a rush to meet up with thorben and nina that i forgot to put my pants on... all i had were my long underwear and a long t-shirt and sweater. normally you wouldn't be able to tell but because it was so windy, i exposed my pantless self to all of hamburg, ha ha! thorben joked that i was the modern version of marilyn at the top of st. michaelis. here is my debut photo:
after climbing all those stairs, we deserved a little treat. we walked to this little creperie called ti breizh. it was amazing! i had a sour cherry and vanilla ice cream crepe, yum! we walked around the really expensive area of hamburg after this and looked in the windows of all the closed shops. the one annoying thing about being in europe is that EVERYTHING closes on sunday. it was a really nice street to walk around. on our way back to sternshanze we walked through a really nice canal area. the buildings there are more traditional german and they're so old that they're being held up by metal poles in-between the buildings. see how slanted the building is? CRAZY!
for dinner, thorben took us to this "greasy but really good" greek restaurant. it was exactly as he promised. i had lamb skewers and taziki with fries and a salad, nina wasn't feeling well so she just had a salad, and thorben had puten (female turkey) with a feta cheese sauce. that sauce was amazing.
overall, it was so great to spend the weekend with my friends from school who aren't in school. i got to see some really great things in the city and had an amazing tour guide and company to do it with :)
on monday night i woke up with a migraine. i went to the doctor on tuesday and found out i have a sever sinusitis and bronchial pneumonia, UGH! will i ever be healthy in this city?!?! i really felt like things were starting to change and get great in hamburg. i've spent the past week lying in bed in pain. i'm on antibiotics and just waiting for them to take affect. hopefully soon i'll be feeling like a more normal human being.
love you all and miss you! 3.5 more weeks and i'm home. i can't believe it!
yay!!! i love the marilyn picture!
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