2 + 4 = Eins. Kapiert?

These 2euro, 2kilo Angebote are going to kill me. Today it’s raspberries – I don’t think I’ll be able to eat them again anytime soon. But today has been an amazing food day. It all began with me deciding to skip the museum visit this morning and instead make myself some breakfast – wurst and potatoes. I peeled the potatoes, cut them up - all I needed to do was fry them. What I had before me was a gas stove and the lighter I melted a couple weeks ago. My Swiss lighter has disappeared into thin air and my flatmates weren’t at home. I tried to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together – well no, I went on a lighter/match hunt. For a smoker WG (Wohngemeinschaft – living together/sharing apartment thing) they sure don’t leave lighters/matches around. Plus ever since one of my flatmates took off for Sweden I have no clue what’s going on in the apartment – new people seem to have moved in? I get back too late and leave too early to keep up with daily life here, which is sort of too bad.

Continuing with the good food - I rediscovered Ritter Sport chocolate squares today during one of my breaks between classes. I sadly don’t think I have enough time to try all the flavors in the time that I have left here – there’s over 30 of them! After class, as we waited for the last history lecture in the lecture series (rock on Antonis Hilbers), I got to try these super amazing, somewhat spicy Indian cookies that my fellow table-mate had brought all the way from Mumbai. As I was savoring their goodness, I remembered that I had been invited to a cheese tasting by one of my former C1 classmates.

I rushed to the back courtyard (secret meeting place) to find that the cheese eating had already begun. The Italian woman’s husband had come up from Italy and brought with him the most amazing mozzarella-like cheese from southern Italy that tasted like a piece of heaven - so juicy, yet so light. Tomorrow Venezuelan dessert is on the menu for yet another back courtyard post-class rendezvous. I need to find a Lithuanian specialty, and fast. Time is running out!

But my eating didn’t end with the cheese from the gods – no, I decided I was still hungry as I was heading back home. I stopped by the Chinese/Thai place I had hit up in the middle of the night a couple days ago. I ordered some simple vegetable dish and ended up walking out with a bag full of stuff, including amazing Thai soup. The lady running the place (the same one I talked to for a while last time I was there) said I looked like a hungry student that needed to be fed. Why are people so nice and caring here?!