June 9th
Hello! It's Grant again! Our trip has been running what some would call "smoothly", but I think Frau Steiner might disagree. In her defense weather has not favored our endeavors and trains have had lots of difficulties working the past few days. However, I think everyone in the group is enjoying the trip so far here in München. Today was a rainy day as most of the week has been, and because of that I must thank my mom. She is the one who made me pack a pancho as well as an umbrella, and without those two things all my clothes would drenched right now. For example, today we split into three groups to go visit different places of interest throughout München. Now I said three groups in that prior sentence, but I am not sure that that statement is entirely accurate. My group, the group going to the BMW museum, had around fifteen people while the other two groups had a total of seven people. Two of the seven went to a soccer museum while the other five explored an art museum. So in conclusion, one of our three groups was more of a pair than a "group", but that would just be me being nit picky. Oh! Also I must mention MT (Mary Therese) because she was not counted into any of these numbers due to her being sick for the first half of the day. She is my female writer for today so be sure to give her a round of applause for getting better as well as writing a blog over her misadventures.
Anyways, I went to the BMW museum, for my dad had instilled a curiosity about cars within me. I will admit I do not know much about cars, but I enjoy seeing the different models and the history of it all. Now if you are looking for people who know their stuff go and talk to Connor or Kyle because I thought those two were gonna cry when they saw all of the vehicles in the museum. Connor is quite the bike enthusiast while Kyle is all about cars. A sort of ying and yang I guess. Focusing on the BMW museum, The museum had a lot to see (all of it being related to the BMW company and their different vehicles). The museum even had a separate building where you could touch the vehicles and even test drive if you could afford to rent it. Unfortunately, our group could not stay at the BMW museum for too long, we had made plans to meet back up with the rest of the group around noon at the Marienplatz.
When we arrived at the Marienplatz we were allowed to go get our own lunch while we waited for the other group and couple to arrive. I led a a small band of our group, Kyle, Jacob, Connor, Colin, Sydney, Sam, Taylor, Kalli, and Abbey, to go to a Döner place I had found our first day exploring München for lunch. Again, I cannot stress enough how great döner tastes! Moving on, we all got ourselves some döner kebabs, but we had forgotten to get our receipts for Frau Steiner (she uses receipts to help with banking and all of that money mumbo jumbo). Getting receipts for our food was troublesome because we had forgotten what the word for receipt was in German. This is close to how this encounter played out:
Me: Kann ich habe das Papier für mein Essen?
(Kann I have the paper for my food?)
Cashier: (hands me a napkin)
Me: Nein Entschuldigung, Das Papier mit geld für das Essen.
(No sorry, the paper with the money for the food)
Cashier: (looks at me confused)
Me: (points at his cash register and repeats previous line while trying to reinterpret the line in a vain attempt to make more sense)
(Random German enters the store)
Random German: Oh Ich weiss!
(Oh I know!)
Random German: (Hands me a napkin)
Me: (internally screams)
Abbey had a receipt from a previous purchase that she let me use to show the cashier what I was talking about. Abbey, you came in real clutch and I thank you for it. And with that incident behind us we all left feeling satisfaction within our bellies.
I feel like I've been droning on so I'll attempt to go through the rest of the day a bit more quickly. We then proceeded to regroup with the rest of the group and from there we started a scavenger hunt. My group, Colin, Bridget, and I, killed it. We found and explored all of the churches, fountains, palaces, and stores. We even bought Frau Steiner some sausage (which she threw away after it began to stink up her room).
After the scavenger hunt, the group was given free time to do whatever like until dinner back at the hostel. I mostly just went around eating various ice cream and pretzel. I was with a group, Kyle, Jacob, Riley, Erin, and I, and we made back on time because we know how to manage time. Had a nice pasta dinner with the entire group.
Once dinner was over we had the rest of the afternoon we were told to get our bags packed since we were gonna leave for our Homestay the next day. I got everything squared away rather quickly and met up with the Pizza Crew. The Pizza Crew, if it has not been mentioned yet in another blog, is a group consisting of me, Connor, Mary, Elyssa, and Kalli. We eat this pizza that comes from a pizza2go machine (cooks it in 3minutes!) and we just chat and have a fun time. This night was crazy because Connor and I joined these random people at the hostel in a round of Just Dance. We did it on a dare and received 10€ (which was totally worth it). Inevitably, the night had to end and we all went to our rooms to sleep. We are all anxious and excited to get to the Homestay. Well until my next blog, goodbye
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