Mach mal Pause!

The last two weeks, all I have heard is "Mach mal Pause!" from here and everywhere. I seriously need a break from this student vacation life. Erasmus shouldn't be so demanding but really; I'm trying hard to do things right and it just won't work for me. Not necessarily that it is impossible. I just find myself being exhausted, almost fatigued, about 90% of the time. It's a bit distressing now...

Either way, I have not been a fun camper the last week since I came back home from Stockholm. First! I did not notice how much I miss home and friends until I was home for a weekend and actually met my special people. Second! Being home was nice and not to mention c-l-e-a-n. Third! I ended up procrastinating the whole weekend because I just wanted to enjoy being home and walking around very sunny and warm Stockholm. So now I have about two weeks procrastination ahead of me and I still have not finished my part for Wednesdays presentation. Does anybody hear me say "shit"?

However, it is nice being back. Finishing up what I started and traveling with fun and sweet people. Recently some trips have been booked. Like the next trip (oh yeah, yesterday I was in both Cologne and Bonn) is on Sunday we should be at least five people going to Luxembourg. Then the 17th-19th of June I am leaving for Portugal. So much fun! I really cannot wait. I am already so excited about traveling that I am even considering squishing in Liechtenstein this weekend too. There might not be much to see there, but heck I need to go while I am so close.
We have some other holidays coming up soon so I just might make sure that I also manage to visit Belgium and Hungary; it needs to happen. Traveling is the best and it is really my "feel-good" medication for the moment.

Another idea that I need to push through is my "three-countries-one-weekend" plan. One of these Thursdays we'll be off the hook due to holidays, so I will make sure that I leave for Dublin on a Thursday, leave to Edinburgh Friday and then either Saturday or Sunday leave for Oslo, to then return to good old Heidelberg on Monday. How awesome wouldn't that be!? I will just have to be fliessig with school.

Schweden und alles fühlt sich wie einen Traum

Sleepdeprived (no news) and stuck in a German mode, I made it home to Stockholm which is currently blossoming. Summer is soon here and I absolutely love Stockholm during summer - everything is so perfect and bright!

Either way, I am going to be home for the weekend which should be really awesome. I actually never wanted to go home during my stay but I am quite glad that I decided to stop by anyway. I have subconciously missed Stockholm and home. Today when I got in through the door I felt the smell of home. Pretty tacky but whatever...

I think I really need this break from Erasmus. Not that I do not like it but getting a way a bit is never bad. The strangest thing though is that Erasmus feels like a dream. It feels like I have just been home the whole time and that I dreamt about all the people I got to know at my Erasmus. I can admit now though that I am looking forward to Monday and going back to Heidelberg. I am already calling both places home, which is a bit awkward.

A funny thing that happened when I got out of the airport today, was that I started speaking German with the bus driver until I noticed that "I'm in Sweden. They don't speak that language.."


Wow - I am at home.

Walpurgisnacht auf der Tingstette

Saturday the 30th of April was quite a long day. It started with an early excursion to Regensburg and the Donau, that ended up at some Kloster. All this in Bayern! So up and early at 5am to catch a bus from Bismarcksplatz at 6.30am.

It was quite pretty actually. Regensburg was quite smocked with tourists, which I didn't expect at all. Then we had this really boring tourguide whom I never payed attention to but everything was nice really and we had somewhat luck with the weather. Other than that not much more to add on. Nice nature in general...

Then when we returned to Heidelberg we decided to go to an amazing and legendary party at the top of Philosophenweg. It happens once a year and polices and ambulances are ready on almost different parts of the mountain just because a lot of kids get wasted and injured. So it was insane but amazing! Loads of people were gathered at this amphitheater at the top of the mountain, apparently it used to belong to the nazis. And there were people dancing with fire and just so many people gathered around everywhere. Everyone was freaking drunk but having such a great time!
Pretty amazing stuff, quite an experience...