Munich and Melanie!

Hey everyone! This is my first post from Europe. I am currently staying with Melanie in her dorm (house) in Munich, since she luckily has a relatively large room and two mattresses, of which I have stolen one for the next three days. I got here around 1pm yesterday afternoon, which was very easy because Melanie's class was cancelled so she met me at the S-bahn (train?) station, and all I had to do was find the S-bahn station in the airport and get on the right train and off at the right stop. This was very nice because although I think I got around 2 hours of sleep on the flight from Newark to London, I was starting to get kind of jetlagged by the time I got to Munich.

After we got back to Mel's, I changed into cooler clothing, since it was incredibly hot and sticky here yesterday, and we chatted for awhile before deciding to head into the city. Melanie took me on the "churches and gardens" tour that she gives most of her visitors, which was very enjoyable despite the fact that I slowly became more jetlagged and confused throughout the day, with bursts of energy at random points. We went to the Englischer garden (which I'm sure I spelled incorrectly) and lots of churches. The garden, which is like a huge park, was especially nice, and Mel and I enjoyed watching people float down the stream-like canals throughout the park, which were running especially quickly yesterday, and wished we had brought our bathing suits. We also bought delicious buttered pretzels, which are incredibly tasty, like all of the baked goods I have tried here so far, and ice cream, which was blood orange flavored for me and more like a sherbert than anything else, but also very tasty.

After the "tour," we came back here and made dinner (or rather Melanie made dinner while I watched her), which was zucchini patties. It turned out very good, and we ate with some of Mel's girlfriends here. Then I took a shower and later we made cookies with Melanie's friends, which were tasty chocolate chunk. I totally crashed after that and slept for probably a good 11 hours last night, so I feel much better and more coherent today.

We are now going to eat at Mel's friend Jessica's house for dinner, so I will have to post about today, tomorrow. Hope everyone is doing well, and congratulations to all of the Monty HS graduates (especially Alec).