On saturday after I left the library and gt home, Saima informed me that Annika had come by with a suggestion that we go ice-skating in this rink near the Elbe River... and I was like YES YES YES!! Raghu also came...he's the same guy who was explaining the silent movie to Annika...hes doing his PhD here,; his thesis is on cure of epilepsy and he conducts experiments on rats' brains!!! Nice guy...a bit boring initially but later u realise its coz he's so simple and well, quiet, unlike me!!!
It was really great...apart from Annika, who obviously knows how to ice skate, I was the only one who'd done any skating at all....anyways initially at the rink we were like kids grasping the wall and trying to get our balance right...luckily the lil skating I did as a kid helped and by the 3rd round I was skating without support...and without falling even once. Till I got all confident, saying I'm the only one who hasn't fallen so far and I wont now, coz I'm skating fine (conceited lil me thought I was an expert within 2 hours!!), and skated straight into the middle....with that many ppl ard I lost my sense of oreintation and splat went down on all fours...ouch, but my knees still hurt and I'm sporting a gigantic purple bruise on my right knee. Ah well, it was still great fun....later that night we invited Annika and Raghu over for dinner. Annika got along 'bhaji-ish pulav' and I made alu ki sabzi (again) and egg curry(again)...I am cooking alot but I cook the same stuff over and over again...LOL!!! Since Raghu wasn't getting any food he got his VCR which he left with us for as long as we want....yeah we raided the video library with Annika today and have gotten like nearly 15 movies to watch....shall post the complete list soon, but some of them are Great Expectations, Colour Purple, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman and others too.....
Sunday we spent at Hardo's place for the first advent sunday...oh god that was brilliant. OK..before I plunge into the details, before xmas they have, like, wat's called advent sundays...so they get this advents calendar in which there is a window for each of the 24 days preceding xmas and behind each window is a chocolate. Annika had given us one, but Hardo's folks gave us one each..so we have 4 of them now...LOL!! Hardo's parents ar really nice...I mean...they were treating us like we are their daughters or some thing!!! Anyways we had gone there to bake cookies and window decorations....that was cool. We first made cookies with wheat flakes and coconuts in the dough, then simple biscuits with normal dough but we decorated those biscuits with all sorts of sugary stuff and last, but not the least, we made window decorations which we can string up till Xmas and later eat up!!! I made a ginger-bread man, or rather a biscuit man...which turned out quite funny actually!! LOL!!! What was a bit awkward was that we ended up being gifted all the cookies we baked, plus lotsa more stuff along with the advents calendars... OH!!!! How could I forget!!! The feast his mom had prepared...Jesus!!! My mouth still waters. I'm SO glad I eat all meat...there was this thing with pork slices in a yummy sauce made with apricot and spices, chicken on a layer of sauerkraut, green cabbage with ham....and the Xmas cakes and the pies...ok I am drooling just remembering the peach tarts!!!! We were there at his place the whole damn day, saw his computer, played with Loki(his dog), browsed their library (all in German sadly) and well had a great time ...got home at night...
Today we spent the day with Annika...I got up late coz I was studying till 2 am last night...anyways after getting ready Saima and I went around to Annika's to say hullo, but ended up staying there the whole day...we got the cassettes from the video library and now we've invited her over for macaroni and soup and movie-watching session tonight...yipppeeeee!!!!!
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