Finnland und Aasee

As Jake has mentioned, we spent most of the day on Friday together. We went on the frozen Aasee and then we went to a play, Finnland. It is a play about the history of a family written by four different writers of four different nationalities. There were four acts, each of which was from a different perspective. It is a man looking back at his family and trying to understand what happened, mostly concerning a girl, his father's half sister, who was repeatedly abused and raped by his grandpa, who later died at her hands. Each act had to do with a different part of her story, this girl who was born out of a fling between the grandmother and some guy from Finland. It was very interesting, even without understanding a large amount of the dialogue.

 Here's a terrible quality picture of Jake with my host family at the theater waiting for the play to start.

The play was very enjoyable and, like Jake said, the set was very interesting. It was modern theater in almost every sense.

On Saturday I mostly did homework. While Jake went and skated, I went to some design exhibition at the university. This was with my host mother, Joana, Kim, and Phoebe. The others liked it. Well except for Joana. We found it very boring. Apparently it's usually much better than it was this year. At night, we watched Loriot, a TV show that was very much like Monty Python and aired about the same time.

Today I finished up some homework. Jake came over for lunch. That was chicken curry. I thought it was very good, but they all said it was too spicy. Germans apparently don't like spicy food very much. We then skated on the Aasee (Jake and Joana and I). I used skates that belonged to Jonas I think. They were about two or three sizes too big, though, so it was very painful. Nevertheless, the three skated the length of the Aasee twice (since we started in the middle), which is about three miles.

Here is me and others on the Aasee. It's funny because they think 28 degrees is super cold and I have my jacket unzipped. Like I told Jake, die Deutschen Leute verstehen gute Wetter nicht.

Now it's Sunday night which means we're gonna watch a detective sort of TV show at about 8:15. It's the only time they watch TV during the week, and they have to pull the TV set out of a closet somewhere. Tomorrow we have religion again at 9:00-12:00 and Paideia at 2:00.