tanz in dem mai

so yesterday we had our final studio review. i think mine went pretty well [crosses fingers]. then we had the farewell dinner [tear]. our host families came and all the aib staff was there. i almost started crying when lars was talking about how they enjoyed the semester with us…

there’s this tradition in germany called tanz in dem mai, so seeing as how we had no committals to schoolwork or anything else of the sort, we decided to act like true düsseldorfers on one of our last nights here and partake in this tradition. stefie, bianca, and cole from aib came with us.

[biance, stefie, sierra and me. thanks for the crooked pic jacob/geoff.]

it was awesome. we went crazy dancing… and jumped in the middle of the mosh pit. it was the most intense/fun dancing ever.

[our converse took quite a beating]

[and cole lost one of the lens out of his glasses ]

then we walked down the rhein. after that we went to aib and played some ping pong for old time’s sake and talked for a while waiting on the trams to start running again. it was so fun.

somehow throughout the course of the night, i managed to rip my fourth pair of jeans. my fifth pair accidentally got placed in a bag of old clothes and given away. so… i go home with one small pair of the original six [that is if they'll make it through prague].

today geoff, gavin, rachel, sierra, kyle, alan and i played our last game of soccer in germany in a park along the rhein. it was fun. my ribs will remember sierra’s knee for a while.

little park behind jacob’s apartment [the yellow ones] that i look at on the walk to and from the tram every day. gosh i’m going to miss this.