Moving right along....
This past weekend was very nice. I finally went to the Marzipan Museum in Lübeck on Friday and it was so awesome! They had the entire history of marzipan and all kinds of old photographs from the factory. I want to go back when I know more German, because all the signs were in German, and my limited German skills don't include the ins and outs of marzipan production. Yet! On Saturday I went into Hamburg and saw the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which is the big art museum there. They have a really neat modern art wing and an entire floor devoted to the video arts which I'm not usually in to, but they had a room where they played this Andy Warhol movie about the Velvet Underground called "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable" which was really interesting. Sunday I spent most of the day in the park sunbathing and reading books. I've been doing a lot of reading since I got here. I finally finished "Crime and Punishment" and then moved onto "Life Before Man" by Margaret Atwood. I also read "About a Boy" and "Long Way Down" by Nicholas Hornby. My roommate has a thing for him and let me borrow them. Today I came across a copy of "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris, which I heard is supposed to be really good.
Today I booked my train ticket from Berlin to Amsterdam! The program I'm with is taking a field trip to Berlin at the end of June, and that's when the program ends, so I'll spend a few days in Berlin and then on the fourth of July, go to Amsterdam on the train for only 29€! Isn't that exciting! I still haven't figured out how or when I'm getting back to Paris, which I fly out of on the 15th, but I've got a while yet!