"My aunt is a geographical retard."

-Alex, whose aunt once asked if Ireland was close to New Zealand.

Ugh, I've been awake since 6:30 a.m. Gross. It’s funny to think that I got up before most of you went to bed. I had an appointment at 8 a.m. and I had to take the Straßenbahn there, which meant I had to catch the 7:30 one. And then I ended up getting lost anyway because I was an idiot. I had been to the place before but, stupidly enough, I simply assumed that I knew what the S-Bahn stop was called. By the time I realized my mistake, I was at least 2 stops past my desired stop with only 8 minutes left until my appointment. I ended up being about 5 minutes late. Oh, and at one of the platforms that I found myself standing on throughout the morning, I saw the mean receptionist from yesterday and I glared at her.

Then I had another place to go to, but I had never been to this one before. And once again I almost got lost because I was an idiot. I had looked on an online map yesterday and had seen where the street was, and I thought, “Oh, that’s that one street that I came to that one day probably… ok…” and then never looked at a map afterwards. Well, I went to ‘that one street’ and found out that it was not the street I was looking for. I sheepishly got out my map and, to my great annoyance, found out that I had gone in the complete opposite direction of where I needed to go from the Straßenbahn stop. But once I got that straightened out, I found the place easily enough.After all of this, I bought about €15 worth of stuff to relieve the stress from my idiocy. And, it’s true, ‘idiocrity’ is not a word.

I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th. I think my sister was born on Friday the 13th.

By the time I actually get out of this country, I think I’m going to have acquired enough German postcards to equal my IQ score, whatever it may be.

The German dogs are insanely obedient. I’ve said it before, but it’s so true. Many of them don’t even need leashes.

This evening: nap, cooked dinner, got a call inviting me to dinner, put dinner in refrigerator, went to Vauban, laughed a lot. We talked a lot about idiots... I guess today was just the idiot day.