Sunday & Monday.

Sunday night I spent with the gang, the original five as Sinead calls us (see this post) in Schöneberg. It was a kind of farewell party for Kurt that is leaving Berlin to see other parts of the world and travel on. We played cards and just talked until the wee hours. It was a really nice night just hanging out a last time.

I slept in Smooth trailer again and woke up all cold after just a few hours sleep. The only thing that is a minus about the trailer is that when the fire in the oven goes out it gets so cold. I got up and made a new fire to keep warm and went back to sleep. Half the day Monday I spent with Smooth in the trailer.

I was pretty tried and thought that I should sleep some more but that didn't happen.

Mondays there is a couchsurfing meeting in Mitte, language exchange. You go there to practice languages you're learning or just want to get better at. Or just hang out and mingle with the other couchsurfers that are there. It's a nice Monday hang out that I try to go to as often as I can. To speak some German and I also always have my fingers crossed that I will meet someone from Finland or someone that knows Finnish so I get to speak it. The later (almost) never happens.

My friend Amina also invited me to come and meet her and some friends of hers at a bar in Neukölln.

As I stood waiting for the tram, one going to the couchsurfing meeting and the other to Amina, I decided to meet up with Amina. A decision that I'm so glad that I made.

Amina was there with her roomie Korbi and we talked a lot in German.

I don't know if it comes a cross in this blog that I do speak German and I would say in a okay level that I can talk about most things in German, but I hang out with friends that aren't at that good in German so I speak English quite a lot. Last night I think I just spoke a sentence or two in English. I also found a Finn! And spoke Finnish! I was so happy when that happened. Screw language exchange for finding Finnish people apparently.

The bar was full of people and we sat at the end of a table and it was hard going somewhere because of all the people so Amina spills out a beer on the other ones at our table. This was probably where the night just got better. Amina disappears for some time and comes back with shots to everyone, which is the best ice breaker and we start talking. We apparently have found a group of translators and talk with them for a long time. We sang Swedish songs and mingle around. I had a blast and my German was flowing good so I felt totally comfortable to chit chat about anything.

When the night got late I took Amina home and slept next to her in Friedrichstrasse (the same apartment I spent my first three weeks in Berlin in).

Walking up midday, I read until Amina woke up and we went to get some food and then had a long breakfast while we talked about the night before and laughed a lot. We looked at pictures for not only the night before but nights and days in Berlin that we spent together and laughed all the time. There are so many memories in Berlin so far and I just can't wait to make more. Today I had the biggest smile all day, almost Cheshire cat grinning the whole day. I love it here and I want to stay in this city.