10.22.10, Ingolstadt: Last Friday Night(T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry

"Pictures of last night
Ended up online
I'm screwed
Oh well
It's a blacked out blur
But I'm pretty sure it ruled
Damn

Last Friday night
Yeah we danced on tabletops
And we took too many shots 

But this Friday night,

Do it all again."

*My opportunity to quote a song :)) Love this song sorry!

Since I slept at around 5 or 6 am already last night, I woke up today at around 2 pm. Kinda lazy day since the weather was awful. 

Went out to buy myself a phone and to run some errands alone. Also I passed by H&M cause I was bored and got heels for 3 Euros(Php 180). Crazy. HAHA!

Kinda gulo our plan for that night cause everyone was just messaging me asking where I was and where I was going. I got so stressed. But the main plan was just that I was gonna meet Jini and Miki and that's what I stuck to!

I was chatting with Laurin(Gia's DJ friend) sometime in the evening and he was super nice and funny! Stephanie came over just because we were both bored. HAHA! She then went home to fix up and I kept on talking to Laurin lang. He even helped me pick an outfit out. It so happens that I went to his gig in a bar in Furth(near Nuremberg) during our first week here and he remembered liking my outfit and told me to wear the same thing. Now, I don't really repeat outfits so much but I kinda followed his advice. Mostly because he was so nice to have remembered my outfit that night :))

We first went to Gluck'n to chill and pre-game before going to Eiskeller. It was a good enough chill Biergarten and we liked that. At around 12.30 though, we moved to Eiskeller. Just in time cause Jini and Miki were on their way na also. 

We finally saw them and I introduced Butch and Steph and they now love the two girls as much as I do :) YAY!

My lovely friends Miki and Jini!

Friday nights at Eiskeller is ladies night so an entrance fee of 3 Euros buys you stubs worth 10 Euros and you use these for drinks. WE REALLY LIKED THAT. It was beyond sulit. HAHA!

This is Alex; All the pictures so far(before I steal from Steph and update this; my camera was dead)are from him

We had a lot of fun in Eiskeller but at around 3 am, we moved to Maki with the two girls. Steph and Butch left soon after that but I stayed with the girls.We had a bit more fun together but it didn't take too long before the brought me home na in a cab. Such nice ladies:) WE ALL REALLY LOVE THEM<3 Plus they say my name in the cutest accent ever! 

More pictures of us:

<3 you Miki

The Friday night group:)

My two best Germany buddies!!!

Tschuss!!!

10.21.10, Ingolstadt: T Minus -3 and Counting:(

Today started with me watching a bit of Alice In Wonderland since I haven't yet. I couldn't finish it since we all had to go to school and fix one last subject of ours. 

Janine/Jini, one of the two girls I met at Oktoberfest when I went a second time, messaged me in facebook saying she's gonna visit tomorrow, Friday and that we should all hang out. Such a nice girl! She was visiting Miki, the second girl, since Miki lived here in Ingolstadt. Jini's from Munich btw and they're really good friends. Course I said yes :)

We walked to the uni at around 3 pm and found a bunch of the other international students waiting outside our professor's door already. 

Mo was so cute. While waiting in the hallway, he told me I was like the Energizer Bunny cause I was so full of energy last night at Suxul. I told him everyone back home knows me as that already. My energy talaga transcends intercultural barriers. Amazing. HAHA!

We entered the professor's office soon after and needless to say, it wasn't a very enjoyable visit. He was being mean and standoff-ish and we just didn't at all like it. We ended up getting different time slots for the course Business Fiction. Canc wasn't able to unfortunately and she had to find another class na lang. HASSLE.

We went straight to the library thereafter to get the required book from Prof. Deidrich for Business Fiction. And it was kind of a confusing trip. HAHA! We managed to find the book after many questions and searching though :)

:)

We went home after that but not without passing first Viktualienmarkt for food. We had pizza which was yum :) We hadn't eaten the whole day and that was around 4.30 already and it was very satisfying!

Butch went ahead while Steph and I passed by H&M first. Got a lot of nice stuff for me, my dad and my brother!!! Here's my favorite purchase:

Star Wars Darth Vader Sweater!

Oh and I love the sneakers also

And. I was wearing shorts.

Stephanie and I passed by Norma for a bunch of things. Most importantly for water and other drinks. I first deposited my empty drinks bottles into this machine that in turn gave me discount receipts. You get 25 cents for giving back the bottles; almost the same price of the water itself... HAHA! 

Water/Juice Bottle Machine (from Steph)

I bought quite a lot of stuff while Steph who didn't have much money bought a little lang. The water we got though came in a pack of six 1,5 liter bottles. We were dying trying to carry them so even though the trip from Norma to the Rathaus was just normally a minute's walk, we took the bus. The Harderstraße bus stop(near Norma) is actually just a bus stop away from the Rathausplatz one. The driver kept on laughing at us cause he said, in very rough English, that he just didn't understand why we had to take the bus. I kept on telling Steph in Filipino that if he just knew how heavy our purchases were, he'd understand. That was a very funny bus ride experience. Nice driver pa!!!

Peter came over around an hour after I got home for our Customer Management Case Paper. I was doing most of the typing and stuff since, even according to him, my English is really good. HAHA! We finished after around 3 hours :) Not cramming anymore HAHA! Hopefully I get to continue with this in the Philippines.

We've been here in Germany for a month today exactly and I was very restless and wanted to celebrate. But we were tired and Thursday nights are boring here so I just watched Alice in Wonderland again. After that, I watched the Google Weather app on my dashboard as the temperature it showed dropped to 0, -2 and finally -3 degrees! I found this very exciting so I visited Steph just so I could feel the cold air outside. So cold but my body didn't mind apparently cause this was my outfit:

Oh and now, even I have a picture of our ugly shoes-socks outfit:))

Super ugleh.

Steph who is, according to her, 'malamigin' was wearing this:

Now this is cold weather clothing. 

I was appalled at the messiness of Steph's place and had to take pictures of it. I swear. My place really is the nicest, most functional and most comfortable of all!

Her makeshift trashcan :|

How can you even sleep on this bed?!

Anyways, I went home after a while na rin while Steph and Butch worked on their own paper. Kinda sad we didn't celebrate our first monthsary but it's okay since one, according to Steph last night at exactly midnight in Suxul we were celebrating anyways and two, tomorrow we'll be at Eiskeller(club/bar) with Jini and Miki.

Tschuss!!!

10.20.10, Ingolstadt: First party with our new friends: First Time, First Shot!

Woke up kinda late today. I checked facebook and saw that Dominik sent me a message inviting me to a pre-game thing at the common room of the studentenwerk(student housing?) near Kreuztor. He said a bunch of them were gonna go there before the party at Suxul and that I should go. He said to invite Steph and Butch which I did(and to no avail). 

I asked Peter if he knew where this place was cause he's friends with a lot of them and he said that if I were ready by 8.30 that he'd bring me there! So nice!

My neat whiteboard with my weekly schedule and my 'Places to Visit' list:)

Sometime in the afternoon, David (Yulo) messaged me in facebook and we talked about his Salamanca life and my Ingolstadt life, our plans in general, our plans for Christmas and stuff and meeting up somewhere, sometime. Then I Oovoo-ed with him, Francis(Escaler--> right?) and Balili. It was so funny cause I barely know them HAHA! WHATEVER. Haha! 

Really excited to see David sometime around November when Steph and Butch are in London. I'm really lazy to fix my UK Visa so as much as I'd want to go to London, I'm gonna go meet up with David in Salamanca or Madrid or wherever in Spain instead. REALLY REALLY EXCITED!!! I THINK I'LL CRY! As I always do when I see people from the Philippines! 

Sunny skies!

Weather today was sooo weird!!! It was rainy and cloudy most of the day but at around 5 or so, the weather turned nice... After 30 minutes, it was back to being rainy and cold!!!

I started fixing up at 7 cause I take forever to fix up. I finally wore my blue and black long-sleeved short dress from Zara which I bought more than a year ago! HAHA! E it's long-sleeved e! Too hot for the Philippines but perfect for Germany!

At around 8.30 Peter rang my doorbell and we walked to the place. He had to pass by school first so he just dropped me off at Gluck'n? Something like that. Didn't want to go to the pre-game thing alone! I had a beer for just 1,30 Euro! Super cheap! Then after that he got me again and we went to the common room already :)

Their dorm had a different set-up from ours. It's a building with rooms and a common kitchen, like that. While I still like ours better cause we have our own place talaga, I love how their place is like 30 seconds from school only! Not like ours which is 8 minutes or so! I need that! I'm always running late! 

I saw Leyre, Mikel, Marco there first. Marco was supposed to cook for me cause he's Italian right and I love Italian food and I reminded him of this promise. He said he did cook but since I wasn't there, Mikel ate my share:)) So funny!

We moved to the common room after and soon the people from Korea and China arrived, also Dominik. He made us Tequila Sunrise...s :) Yum! We then played this entertaining yet irritating(I kept on having to drink cause I kept on making mistakes) card-drinking game where you pick a card and with it comes a consequence or rule or something(Q: Question Master; 10: everyone drinks; etc). It was fun but very tricky. Good times though!

Some pictures at the common room:

Dominik and Min?/Mien?/Ming?

Mo, David and I

All of us! Except Kim!

At around quarter to 11 we moved to Suxul. The party's name was First Time, First Shot and first 250 people who come get free shots! I had Bailey's and it was really yummy!

We all headed downstairs where the coat deposit place was since the others all had to leave their coats. While downstairs I saw Laurin at the DJs booth and I said hi. After the others deposited their shiz, I introduced them to Laurin :) He was spinning electro ish songs downstairs while upstairs it was more Dance Music. He was really good though! Mixing electro with really good hiphop/alternative songs! WE LOVED HIS SET! Steph and I were really dancing like how we usually do back in Manila!

Laurin and His friend

Some other people started to arrive and it all became really gulo after around 30 minutes. I, in usual Panjee fashion, kept on trying to make everyone dance. We were in a circle and I kept on inviting people to be in the middle and to dance. The people here and even the ones from Asia don't really dance like we do. But then again, we Filipinos dance very enthusiastically. Me especially. HAHA! So I also took it upon myself to teach the girls how to dance. They're really shy and when it comes to dancing, I'm really not. HAHA! 

Some pictures from the party:

<3

Mo, Butch, Dominik, Min?/Mien?/Ming? and Kim

Dominik and I

Min?/Mien?/Ming?, Tauen, Marco and I. And Laurin.

Leyre, Marco, Dominik, Mikel and I

We also saw Heidi, Gia's friend, and her friend! Yay! 

Friends!

Love you even though you're mean to me :(

Leyre, Marco, Canc, Mo and I

I love Leyre!

Peter, Mikel, Marco, Stephanie and I

So happy I looked like I was crying na haha!

I really thought this guy was friends with our friends...

Apparently no one knew him :))

Butch, Stephanie, Kim, Marco, Dominik, Mikel and David

Super pretty Canc. Super pogi Butch.

That's Maria one of the heads of the Welcome Team!

She's so nice and she always smiles! I love her!

And that's Butch:| He's pogi daw. HAHA!

The guy in purple's so funny. He just joined our circle and started dancing like CRAYZAY. 

Butch loved that face that night. 

Oh and I'm there at the back!

Jingqian and Lin!

I loved teaching Lin how to dance!

GERMANEY! HEY! 

Went upstairs to have a breather and met this guy! Really nice! I went back downstairs after a while :)

Kristoph/Kristoff/Christoph and I

Towards the end of the night Dominik and I went upstairs again to just chill na talaga. It was around two or two thirty and I was just tired. Steph and Butch left cause Butch was really kinda out of it already. This was his face by around 2 am:

"Sobrang lasing ko na!"

Had fun talking! STUDY IN THE PHILIPPINES!

At around 3, Dominik and I decided to leave so we went back downstairs. He got his coat while I got my bag from Laurin(he kept it inside the booth for me THANKS!!! SUPER SUPER THANKS!) but Laurin invited me to come join him and his friends inside the booth and I got super hiya cause he's been so nice and I said sure. I said bye to Dominik and I enjoyed Laurin's music for around half an hour more :)

Finally went home and it was really cold! Plus my feet hurt:( HAHA! Oh well, the price I had to pay for a fun night out was nothing compared to how fun the fun night out was.

A couple of my favorite pictures of the three of us from that night:

LOVE YOU BOTH!

Tschuss!!!

10.19.10: Second Day of Class!!!

I was a tad bit running late again for this day but I made it fairly on time. Had hot cocoa once more! This drink is really growing on me!

We had Customer Management at 12.15 and it all sounded very similar to marketing. The teacher was very enthusiastic(maybe TOO enthusiastic even?) but at least he's not at all boring.

We have around 6 Case Papers which is kinda okay but then hassle a bit(haha! sorry! kidding! we're here to study pala haha!). We were supposed to do it in pairs and since I was quite sure Steph and Butch weren't gonna be as willing as I was to pair with someone else, I just took the initiative to look for an exchange student pair. I didn't find any really cause I was worried about the travelling around a lot thing being an issue and so the professor said he'd handle all the pairings instead. Whew!

Canc took a picture of us and here it is:

Friends from China!

We went to Viktualienmarkt after for our favorite Döner ever: Lara's Döner!!! Steph and Butch had their usual Döner mit Reis(Turkey with rice) while I got Döner mit Pommes(Turkey with fries). The serving here's super super super big and so I had mine for take away. I ate less than half of it haha! 

Finally! Viktualienmarkt!

We had some alone time first when we got back home and then we planned our trips and buying our tickets again! Took us so long!!! HAY! After that, I just stayed in while Steph and Butch planned their London trip! Party at Suxul tomorrow so I'm saving my energy for that :))

Tschuss!!!

10.18.10, Ingolstadt: First day of school, Tour of Ingolstadt and Fun Get-together!!!

My day started with that amazing cup of hot cocoa :)

We then headed to school for our first class ever! Yay! I was running a tad bit late but well within the grace period(12.15) might I mention!!! Butch and Steph went ahead but it was okay since I got to class at 12.08... NOT BAD AT ALL. 

The course was CSR in Latin America and it was very interesting. It's like hearing about the Philippines lang what with the very similar history and all. I recited a minimum of 3 times! Very proud of myself. Kinda kahiya at first cause we were in a class full of people taking up their masters and some taking up their PhDs also. But whatever. I like reciting. HAHA! 

We then had the first official get together for exchange students!!! Yay! 

 Butch looks funny here

Them two

My turn!!!

We first went on a campus tour but that's not really that important haha! In any case here are some pictures I got from Steph:

Library

Lecture Hall

We then went on a tour of the town and this adorable old lady from the town tourism office I think gave it:

The clearer picture from Steph

Aaand from my camera HAHA!

Our new friends!

At the garden of the Medicine Museum

Where Dr. Frankenstein supposedly studied

We went around the town for around an hour and a half but when Ms. Tourguide Lady saw how much we were freezing in the cold, cold, cold afternoon air, she decided to bring us back to the University already. All in all the tour was pretty interesting since we got to visit some new places in town and got to know some trivia about some places we've already visited(even places we just passed on a daily basis).

After the tour, we had a small get together at one of the classrooms in the New Building. It was super cool to see SO MUCH BEER inside a classroom :))

Yay!

Now for some pictures of the people from that afternoon-night:

Kim, Mo, Butch and I(from Steph)

Super irritating 'international look' face :|

Super.Labo.

Zem people!

Mo and I

Steph, Sanda? and I

David, Dominik, Peter, Leyre, Marco, Mo and Mikel

More pictures from Steph:

Marco Saguatti!

This guy's really funny!!! He talks with an Italian accent and now whenever we talk to him, we talk with an Italian accent also!!! HAHA!

JEANNETTE!!! OUR FAVORITE TUTOR!!! 

(I think she doesn't know her angle talaga promise cause she's pretts naman)

Chris, Dominik and Jeannette!

So funny this guy was all jumpy and shiz

This guy was being really energetic and stuff and we were laughing at how happy he was. He was holding a bottle and I asked him how many he's had (cause he was really out of it na) then he said: "Oh this is apple juice. I don't drink." SO.FUNNY. 

Steph and Butch left early as usual but I stayed cause I'm friendly like that. Had three or four bottles of beer which might seem a lot but really here it's totally normal. Think of how they see wine in Italy. Same :)

Really fun and funny night! Got to talk to and meet so many people from South Korea, China, Paris, Spain, Italy, Romania and elsewhere! I kept on going outside without my jacket or something like that and everyone kept on telling me that they applaud me for standing the cold. I don't know why but I seem to be really tough when it comes to cold weather. Labo!!!

Peter and I walked home together since he lives just 2 doors away from me. We talked pa for a while about how Slovakia is and how the Philippines is and he just kept on saying how whatever I said just sounded like a whole other universe to him. Haha! 

Went home after that(2 doors away haha) and slept! 

I've never had a more exciting first day of school!!!

Tschuss!!!