Life without internet is boring.

Yesterday I went to Stuttgart with Alex and my Pole, Michael. Michael was practically a tour guide… he knew so much about the history and significance of everything. It was quite fun. And once again, I spent way too much money… about €85. It’s so incredibly easy to find gifts for my mom, but I can never find stuff for my dad.

I was supposed to meet Alex and Michael at 7:50 on Gleis 2 (track 2). When I left yesterday morning to catch the Strassenbahn to get to the train station, it had left maybe a minute before I got there. So I thought, ‘ok, I’ll get the one at 7:30’. And then I remembered that it was Saturday and that they probably didn’t run as often as normal. So I looked at the schedule and, of course, the next one came at 7:49. Yeah, that would definitely be too late. So I therefore had to walk to the train station. I ran between am Bischoffskreuz and Runzmattenweg (Strassenbahn stops), hoping that I could catch Strassenbahn #3 at Runzmattenweg. Of course not. But I did see that the #2 was coming in about 10 minutes, which was quite odd because the #2 doesn’t run in this direction. And so I kept walking and eventually came to the next Strassenbahn stop, Technishes Rathaus. I looked at the little electronic thing that says which streetcars are coming, and it said ‘Littenweiler – 3 minutes’ (line #1, which is what I missed at the beginning). That was extremely odd, because it did not say that Littenweiler was coming when I was at am Bischoffskreuz or Runzmattenweg. But I waited for it and it took me to the train station. I didn’t get there early enough to buy some breakfast, but I still made it. And, as it turns out, everyone else had the same problems with the Strassenbahn that morning.

Then the trains… the first train (to Offenburg) was fine, but then we had to stand up on the second train (to Karlsruhe). And then on the third train (to Stuttgart), we barely got a seat, which wasn’t a normal seat anyway. On the way home, I had to sit on the floor from Stuttgart to Karlsruhe, but we got seats from Karlsruhe to Freiburg.

My internet didn’t work yesterday, and that was sad. It didn’t work then today either.