hallo!
man, being with friends everyday is so much different than travelling alone. time goes so fast when you are with good people.
helsinki was a cool day trip, but it would have been better if we had a local guide like sebastian in sweden. the weather turned cold and we really had no plan--that meant wandering around and seeing all the cool old buildings that we could see over the tops of office buildings. the best surprise for me--and it shouldn't have been a surprise because i could name at least 3 people who told me early, i just forgot--was that santa is from finland! good times seeing christmas cards in the middle of may. i guess he comes from "lapland" which is some place way up north, but i think finland as a whole is proud of their santa invention.
its been a really weird part of travelling because usually when i leave good friends i have some alone (and usually down) time, but now its just friend, friend, friend. it makes it easier now, but i think when i get home and all this is done, it will hit me how much i miss these people. i parted ways with pauline in estonia and went to hamburg, germany. a few hours later i was at a wedding party in Plon with jasmin and bjorn (i met them in my first two weeks of travelling--they weren't getting married, their friends were. germany wedding parties are crazy! nothing like i've ever seen. everyone was really cool and the food was amazing. we left the party at 4:30 in the morning as the sky was just getting lighter. when we finally woke up for breakfast it was 3:30 in the afternoon.
the next day we went to Jasmin's new flat in Lubeck, which is a rad old city. since our sleeping patterns were all messed up from the night before we never really got tired at night and played dominoes until 6:30 the next morning. her roomate moved in last night but was late from traffic. we tried moving everything as quiet as possible since it was 10ish, but i think the whole apartment building knows they have arrived.
this mornings trip to mannheim was really cool. they have a website here of people that are travelling from one city to another and have extra space for other travellers. the trains here are crazy expensive so it is such a good deal. the driver was a cool computer guy that goes to mannheim to work, and we also picked up a girl in hamburg. i mostly slept because the sleep is still screwy. i'm in mannheim to meet katja, i kayaked with her on the north island of new zealand. and then in a few days i hope to visit tyson from university in heidelberg. see what i mean...friend, friend, friend.
have a good day
your friend
chad
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