Oktoberfest here I come!

Yep, I am going to the famed Oktoberfest tomorrow. This is the last communication many of you will have before I am changed forever. Try to remember what I was like and prepare yourself for what I am soon to become.

Actually, I am sick. It is the most perfect timing ever. I got sick today at about 2 pm and I start my trip to Munich at 10 am. Wunderbar. I've picked up some drugs and stuff and hope some sleep will help. I any case I still plan on having a good time and drinking.

In the last few days I have been liked by a cow, stood under a wind turbine, picked up an Italian girl in German at a party, cooked and ate Empanadas, and met my french friends in Brussels for the day. All in all a good weekend. Belgium waffles are good, they're the thick rectangular waffles like at home, but they put chocolate syrup and wipped cream all over them. Belgium chocolate is also really good. This store I went to had a chocolate fountain like Willy Wonka. I took a pic don't worry.

I'm doing good other than this cold. Work is good. Enjoying it. Found out some important info todat that saved me a lot of heartache. Not working as much as I would like with this German course, which is a little to fast paced since I don't feel I'm actually learning nearly as much as I am simply being exposed to. But I think it is helping.

If you ever wondered what I cow's tongue feels like (if you think that's gross, realize that many people in the US eat coe's tongue quite often), it's really rough! I never expected that. Far rougher than that of a cat. And these bastards are big. I was riding my bike around the outskirts of Aachen, where there are a lot of farms and wind turbines. I'm on this road and I see a farmer closing all the openings to intersecting roads. Then behind me he opens the gate to the grazing field and about 50 cows start, really slowly coming towards me. They walk only on the sides of the road where there is still grass. So I think, no prob, I'll just stand in the middle of the raod and they'll walk by me (I have my bike with me remember). Unfortunately, I grossly overestimated the intelligence of these animals (it's not you see them often in NJ or NY). When the first two at the front of the two lines of cows got within 5 feet of me and my bike, then stopped cold. Staring at me and mooing and basically on the verge of freaking out. It then occurred to me that I was no longer in Germany but in Pamplona, except there was no one else there running with me (and they were cows, with some bulls mixed in). So then I thought it best to walk in the same direction as them, which was totally cool with the cows. Then there were comfortable walking past me, still not without taking a really hard look at me to see that I was kosher.

I also decided to walk through a corn field since you see it only in movies. I went in a little bit but not so much to actually get lost, which, like it seems in the movies, would be extraordinarily easy.

Anyway, be good. I'm done for now. Need to rest and be lazy.