Tuesday, July 07, 2009

The one where my parade gets rained on

So today is Tuesday. Three more days have gone by in Augsburg.
On Sunday we decided to catch a bus to the course instead of cycling. Too much excitement taking the bike last time! The course had a rafting race going on so there were alot of people around and it was nice and sunny. Met Tiina's sister and her husband who were very nice, luckily they spoke very good english so they didn't have to suffer from my german.
THe next day I decided my mission would be to get a phone. So I set off to find the shopping complex I went to with Tiina on Saturday. I ended up getting to what I now know was one street away.. about 50 metres away, before getting lost and walking the other way. I thought then i'd walk to the course and turn around to get to the mall. So a 10 minute walk took me about 40min. Once I found the stores and made a total embarrassment of myself trying to speak a hybrid english-german language at the phone shop, I returned to the apartment before i would go out and do some grocery shopping. Unfortunately I got hit with some major jet lag. I started having high temperatures and just passed out on the couch. There went the rest of that day!

Luckily I woke up in the morning today feeling pretty much back to normal. Today i went for a trek to the course. On the way I got stung by a bee on the bottom of my feet. Yeah, I have no idea how that was possible but I had a sudden pain in my foot, took my shoe off and there was this massive bee on it. So it took me quite a bit longer to walk to the course. When I finally got there I stayed for about an hour watching some people train and then because it looked like rain thought i should start walking back. It ended up pouring rain as I was halfway. Stopped at a supermarket and got some food finally! Was getting a bit hungry! Now am back trying to dry off. Tomorrow I should actually catch up with some Aussies which Im really looking forward to! Anyway Tchüss! Bis bald! Till later.
(Oh will try and get some photos up soon. Tried today but the computer keeps putting up warnings in German!)