Bleib super cool

That's merely one of the many delightful phrases my friends and I learned when we saw the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith auf Deutsch. That, of course, means "Stay super cool," roughly. Others included Ich geb auf (I give up) and Ohne Scheiß? (Which in polite company might translate to "Oh yeah?"). The movie was decent, mostly just full of action and some comedic relief, but it was definitely better to see it in German. It was more interesting that way, held the attention better because we all had to work at translating everything. Plus it wasn't any sort of mind-boggling plot line, so it wasn't difficult to follow. Oh, and I've been to two different German movie theaters now (the first was with Lisa and Jonder when we saw Charlie und die Schokolade Fabrik), and they rule American theaters. The seats are large, cushy, and fantastic, with stadium seating. Plus commercials are better when they're in a foreign language.

After Herr und Frau Smith we went out to dinner. The place was called Schnitzel Paradies (I think you can all get that one). It doesn't get much better than a house of schnitzel, and it was indeed good eats and cool atmosphere.

At 7:00 this evening we're going to a German movie for class, I don't remember what we're seeing but hopefully it will be fine. Afterwards we'll go to a bar for some drinks with our teachers, which should be interesting too. One of our teachers (yeah, we have 2 for some crap reason) is awesome: his name is Kai, and he's originally from Texas, but he's been in Germany longer than I've been alive, I think, so he's very German. He's a great professor, very interesting and engaging. The other one is Evangelia, and she's basically a kindergarten teacher, because we mostly color things and throw around big fuzzy dice. That's all I'll say about her. So anyway, after drinks it's time for Karaoke night at the Dubliner, an (obviously) Irish pub. Can't wait for that.

Aaaand finally, we're going to Switzerland Saturday, but then a bunch of us are going straight from there Saturday night to Munich for Oktoberfest, woooo! Yeah, it starts Saturday, and actually ends sometime in October. The trip there will be like 8 hours, but we'll just hafta sleep on the train and whatnot. We'll head back to Freiburg Sunday night. It's definitely gonna be an adventure.

As usual, hope all is well, and see ya later.