I'm listening to amazing music...warm...and full!
So first of all I left Magdeburg, said goodbye to Leah and got on my train. It was a RE train so i had 2 connections...which is no problem for €36. SO I listened to music, read some of my book in preperation for Labri...So once i arrived i met Phil.
Phil is alices friend from Brayil. He's living in Marburg, Germany training to become a doctor. He goes to the Uni here, Phillips University (from memory). A bit about where he lives and why he lives there.
He lives in a massive, massive house. Its owned by about 100 different people and goes by the name 'TH'. It is a club. A fraternity club for students studying at the uni. All marburg has to offer is history and a university. so theres lots of these clubs everywhere.
he pays $60 a week which gets him his own room, electricity, gas, water, internet, cleaner, chef (all lunches and one dinner). the house is massive. theres a dining hall with the club sign engraved into the chairs. theres foxes everywhere because like fish, they call the new club members fox's. theres a table tennis table. a massive party room. a fridge full of beer (costs €1 per half litre of beer...just so you know how cheap that is, its equivilent to 2AUS dollars, also at oktoberfest they charge €8 per litre beer. very cheap.) its 3 stories. there are 8 rooms for 8 students to live permanetely. on the third story theres a movie theartre room, drying room, toilet, bathroom, two spare bedrooms with linen and beds. the 2nd floor hosts the 8 rooms for the students, a tv room plus 2 showers and 2 toilets. the 1st floor has the party room, 6 toilets, massive industrial kitchen and the dining hall...
and im staying here all for free. phil is an amazing host. every morning he has bought breakfast for me. chocolate musili with banana. croisants. lunch time we walk to the student hosue where we phil gets student discount, so he's bought my meals both days, and we eat the lunch served there. its fair average but its only €3.
when i got there it was phils birthday. so there was a party for him. everyone was very friendly. i got talking to two germans about oktoberfest. very friendly. they offered me lots of advice.
first day. phil took me around marburg and showed me the castle (Schloß) and the university and a music shop. then that night we had another party saying goodbye to a friend of theres. about 20 people were there. i was talking to James and thomas about the german language. they wrote down the numbers 1-10 and told me key phrases for oktoberfest ie. cheers, thanks, this rounds on me...(dunno if thats a good one??? lol)
then today i woke up had breaky, went to the student house for lunch, then helped round the house cleaning the yard. we then drove out to the bush to go mushie hunting. i found 2...that may seem fair...but compared to christian who got 2 bucket loads, it was pitiful. lol.
we left at 3 and got home at around 8. it was intense. lol. so why did we bother going into the bushland to pick wild and possibly dangerous and poisenous mushrooms???
well to make a stu of course...Christians mum cleaned them, chopped them up, mixed them with butter, cream, herbs, salt and pepper, bacon and onions...then served it with spaghetti...
it was to die for. amazing. whole thing probably cost about 10 bucks and it served about 12 people. with heaps of left overs. there were two 1 1\2 foot long pans filled with it.
there are small things that are making my stay here awesome.
phil plays guitar and has two...we jam all the time. we share music. its awesome
today phil left me his keys cause he was leaving to go to the uni for some work.
he bought cookies
everyone speaks german, but for me they speak in english. everyone is very very nice.
so yeah...my time here is aming...tommorrow we're going bowling. it just keeps getting better. lol
anyway...enjoy.
Prost!
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