This weekend is "Midterm Break", which means we get Monday off, which at Carleton is the only break we have during a term, but here is just another break among many, in a program that's a little break-ish to begin with. Anyways, I'm going to Munich with two friends later today. On Friday we'll be in Munich, then Saturday and Sunday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is a little city on the southern border, to see the Alps. Then Monday back in Munich, and Tuesday morning we take the train back to Berlin, where we're seeing a play that night.
I'm extremely excited to see the Alps. I've seen mountains in New Mexico, but if they were to get into a fight with the Alps, they would be pulverized. We're planning on doing some hiking and mountain-seeing while we're in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and in Munich some touristy sights and museums, and Hofbräuhaus.
This past week we saw "Minna von Barnhelm", which was actually extremely good. We've also finished Bertholt Brecht's "Die Dreigroschenoper", known in English as "Threepenny Opera", which expounds Brecht's communist ideologie in Gangster-story format. Now we're reading "Die Physiker" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which is so far definitely the easiest we've read, partly because it was written fairly recently (1962).
I must pack. The train leaves in about 3 hours. I won't have internet access until Tuesday at the earliest.
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