Weekend update

People have been saying I let our problem child affect me too easily...they are right..its just that she irritates me ALOT! Last night she got all worked up over a small issue and started saying that Saima and I are extremely sensitive and make too much of small issues and shudnt judge ppl. The two of us got very angry over that specially since she herself gossips so much, has made all sorts of gossipy comments about Hardo and his girlfriend Nadine and well we've heard from the horse's mouth itself of how judgemental she is.

Infact this weekend we got very angry with her. She had all but insisted on inviting Hardo's parents over for Diwali and made this big deal of the festival...which really was nothing here and didn't even feel like Diwali in the first place...but anyways we said fine. Then on fri she has to go to her professor'S place and said she'd return on sat morng. We said fine again!!! But fri night she calls and says that she can't come back coz theres a party she doesn't wanna miss. So she called up Hardo's parents and told them to come on sun. They said next sun...she said this sun. I was soooooooo embarassed when I heard that. I mean to cancel is bad enuff but to reschedule to her convenience was appallling....

Anyways on sat morng Saima and I decided to have fun ourselves and stop catering to her whims and facies...so we made french toast fro breakfast...and got ready leisurely...then we set off to the zoo. We caught the tram to Neustadter Platz, then asked for directions in broken german from dictionary and found our way. The zoo (called Zoologishcer Gardens since it also includes a park of sorts) is wonderful...its huge and has alot of animals some of which I've not ever heard of. We spent ard 3 hrs there...and had a small picnic as well since we'd carried sandwiches...we just had some coffee there to warm ourselves up and then walked back to the tram stop, using a diff route, seeing some beautiful cottages on a private road...had a nice time. In the eveg we studied a bit and slept late after talking and browsing magazines...

On sun morng we got up early had tea/coffee and bfast and then set ourselves to cleaning up the apt. We swept and mopped...sprayed perfume in the air, got flowers from the park and put them in a bottle to make the house look nice. Opened the windows and aired the rooms.....Jigisha arrived by anoon, so after that we had a bath, then each cooked her contribution. Mine was alu ki sabzi, in which I used toamto kethcup, amchur, garam masala and salt...and they really liked the subzi alot. Nothing was left, only 1 spoon which Hardo tasted this morng. Jigi made dal and saima made pulav. Jigi also made nariyal ki mithai which refused to set so we served it as nariyal ka halwa.

They got us fruits, choc and wine as gifts..on the whole dinner went ok...I'm carrying back the cork of the wine as a momento..doubt if I'll have place to carry the bottle...

Today we decided to drop the mon lec coz we dint go last week and we still haven't read the book....we were anyways to do only 3-5 lecs and were doing 6. Now we are doing 5 after dropping this one....we are planning going to see the Elbe river. Its the second largest river in germany after the Rhine...there is a cruise so we 'll find out how much that costs....

This friday we r going to Wittenberg on a Univ orngd trip...waiting for that...we also planned out some trips to see Berlin, the local castles and the beer brewery Hardo....and planned out what museums and churches we can visit by ourselves and made this list of Things to Do!!!! Hehehe.....