Those of you who watch Grey’s Anatomy may have realized what an excellent soundtrack that show has. I have discovered quite a few songs I love love love thanks to that show, and bands like The Fray. Now I have just gotten into another band, 8mm. You can listen to some of their songs on their site if you are curious. I think the singer’s voice is incredibly soothing, and I am not sure if music can be sexy, but that is definitely the word I would use to describe the music. I actually like this band so much that I just ordered their album. I browsed around a bit to find a cheap place to buy it, because it has not been released in Germany, and on Amazon Marketplace the prices are good but only until you add the shipping.

I ended up ordering it from Play.com, that is, PlayTrade (their marketplace). The awesome thing is that all prices on Play.com include shipping (world-wide I think). They are a UK-based company, so if you order DVDs there you get the UK version. And while I was there I ended up ordering three DVDs as well. They had a 3 for 2 offer, and I ordered Match Point, The Lake House, and 10 Things I Hate About You for €7.99 each. The 8mm album will actually be shipped from the US but I am only paying €11.59 for it. I think that’s a pretty good deal. I hope I won’t have to wait too long for the album.

Anyway, so I am a couple of days into my semester break and I have been fairly unproductive (though I did work Thu-Sat and cleaned the kitchen yesterday). I picked up my first Schein (course certificate) on Friday. Got a 1.3 (which translates to an A), as I had mentioned before. I am really happy about this grade.

Today I spent a couple of hours on the phone with my mom. We might be going up north for Easter. By that I mean the Harz region. My dad is from there, and we haven’t been there in forever. We would visit my dad’s aunt (who is really old, I am not sure how old exactly, but I think around 90), and probably go hiking or do excursions or something (my inner child says ewwww at hiking, but I have grown up since the last time I was forced to go hiking there so maybe my attitude has changed, and plus it’s not like they’re forcing me, I could just as well stay at home). It is also a bit like going back to my roots, or something. I am Munich born and raised, but actually (and shhh, don’t tell anyone) nothing about me is of Bavarian heritage. My mom was born and raised in Munich, but her parents are from Eastern Prussia and Silesia, and my dad is from the Harz region, that is, Prussia. Yep, yep, I still consider myself Bavarian, but if you ever wondered why I do not sound Bavarian at all, there you go. I cannot recount how many times the first thing I was told here after I mentioned I am from Munich, “but you do not sound Bavarian at all”. Dude, not everyone there sounds like a Bavarian farmer!

Okay, I got a little off-track there. So I would be really excited to go back up north, even to go hiking, so I hope it works out. I do hope,m though, that we will be back before the Easter weekend because that will be the only time Tina will be in Munich while I am there. And if I do not see her then, I wouldn’t see her until August, which would suck very much.

Tomorrow Sheela is coming here and we are going to cook lunch together, spaghetti bolognese. I’m really excited about hanging out with her. We both also signed up for the same class (the Almanac of the Dead one), so we will finally be taking a class together again, after almost 4 years. And maybe I will even take the chance tomorrow to go back downtown with Sheela and pay the library a visit to get started on my termpaper that is due on March 13th. (Sounds almost too good to be true, huh? I shall update y’all on whether I actually made it.)

Well, this is it for now. Hope you all had a good weekend.

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