4/5/08

During the day I just lounged around the apartment and read….! I am reading a book titled “Echo Park,” by Michael Connelly. After only reading about 10 chapter of it thus far, I can tell you a very interesting mystery is brewing!

Tonight around 6pm, all of us international students went over to one of the German students apartment to have a small party before we headed out to take part in the “Night Groove!” The German students fixed a bunch of traditional German finger food for us to try. It was very good! To explain what “night groove” is, it happens once every year and consists of each bar in Bad Mergentheim having an in-house band. It is pretty much a big bar hop….going from one bar to another throughout the night. In the middle of town there is a big town square where there was a beer garden set up with a live band.

The highlight of the night took place once the bars started closing at 2am when we all went to the “discotec!” We got a short bus ride to the discotec with a bunch of Europeans that started a traditional fútbol song…..craziest bus ride I have ever been a part of! Upon arriving at the discotec we waited in line for about 20 minutes to get in. Once within this place you immediately start checking for your wallet and other valuable belongings to make sure you are still in possession of them! Some of the most interesting looking people inhabited this place on Saturday night…some that looked rather normal and others that looked as though they had done a few too many drugs! We finally left at 3am…spending one hour too long at this place! Happy to say my clothes I wore that night still smell like smoke….I probably do as well!