So I left off on Thursday evening, right? Bronchitis? Well let me tell you. After two doses of my antibiotic, I felt like a new person.

Thursday evening was a little boring, I just stayed in and watched American television on my laptop. But I had a big day on Friday, when we had a program wide field trip to the office of the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. It is a beautiful complex completed in 2007 where many government offices are. It's also right next to the Reichstag. The complex lays east/west as a symbol of a unified Berlin, and also contrary to north/south, which was favored by Hitler. We had a guided tour, though we couldn't see much of the building because it was under construction (already!?).

After that I went home and crashed before our official welcome dinner. We had a great time! Becca's friend Starr from school came for a visit and she came to the dinner, too. We had an outrageous meal with Hannah, Tyler, Becca, Starr and I. Essentially every dinner rule ever set forth was broken (and not to mention the glass Starr shattered...). We then came back to the apartments to get ready to go out.

We went to the bar/club Zapata and danced literally until 3AM. We had so much fun and all of us agreed that so far that was our favorite night in Berlin. They played all this American music from the 90's. We got a lot of looks because not only were we the most dressed up, we shouted every word to every song. The highlight of the night was when Cee Lo's "Fuck You" came on, because all 5 Americans in the club went nuts. The Berliners tried to keep up, but just couldn't. It was all very touristtrashchic.

We spent yesterday recovering, and then Becca, Starr and I went out to dinner and got Thai. It was delicious! Just the right amount of spice. Then we decided to have a low key night and go back to the same street Zapata was on, but try to find a more low key bar. We ended up at Silverfish which was similar to a basement dive bar. We were having a very low key night until a EuroTour pub crawl walked in. They were mostly British and Australian people, and two of them had no fear and came right up to our table and chatted us up. Around 1 we decided to call it a night and headed back home.

I guess school is happening again tomorrow, so I'm going to go do some homework. Also, the sun is shining for the first time since...Tuesday? So I might go take a walk while I still can. The sun sets here at like 4 o'clock and by 4:30 it's night. I'm going to go enjoy that!