The past couple of days have been very fulfilling and it's been comfortable settling into the second phase of my trip. I ended up biking yesterday until around 4 or so until i reached downtown Magdeburg. I sat down for a cup of coffee and did some reading, and then headed over to Katja's house. Her flat was fairly close to the city centre and was rather spacious. She studies biology and hopes to do research on AIDS and malaria when she finishes her graduate work. Her roommates had actually been fairly involved in the organizing surrounding the g8 which gave us quite a bit to talk about. Katja ended up cooking a wonderful pasta and preparing a fresh salad for us and afterwords we all went to a pub and I drank my first dark German beer (good, but i still prefer murphy's).
This morning I headed out at around 9 or so and reached Braunschweig at around 5. I had a little trouble finding Simone's flat but was able to find it eventually. her and her fiancee Christoph are both very nice and just walked me over to an internet cafe. They had cooked some wonderful potatoes and there was fresh bread for dinner too (all of this delicious free food this trip is really spoiling me). After this post I suppose I'll go back and share a couple of beers before I get to sleep (didn't get enough sleep last night because of the pub). Tomorrow i'll be couchsurfing with an anarchist girl in Hanover, and will probably go to an anti-fascist rally with her in the evening which should be interesting.
Biking had been great, although there has been a single day without rain so far on my trip. The rain here isn't quite as bad though it seems. It's never quite as cold as it is in san francisco when it pours, and the rain seems to only last for about 20 minutes at the longest when it does come down. I was able to get some nice sun at the end of my ride today, and Christoph was saying that the weather is supposed to be getting better of the next couple of days. We'll see.
That's it for now I suppose. I'm looking forward to Münster to see the sculpture project there (http://www.skulptur-projekte.de/information/) and am toying with the idea of going off course a little ways to see Dokumenta
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documenta). We'll see how I feel after the first couple of days in Münster. I've been missing my friends and family a lot lately, although the weeks ahead have a lot for me to look forward to. I suppose I'll have to wait until August to throw a big party to see everyone again. Bye for now.
-i
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Hi Ian. I am happy you are off to such a good start. I finally left Berlin for Warsaw. I am staying with an Indian Sihk of all things, who has lived here for 15 years and owns a nice Indian restaurant. Talk about delicious free food. Warsaw is crazy. It's kind of like Berlin with the new and old architecture side by side. I went to an exhibition yesterday and thought you would have liked it (also went with a cs person). It was the art of this guy Bill Viola who does very very slow moving video. It almost looks like still photography. And I finally heard from the Krakow folks, so yeah, it looks like I'll be on the road too, which is feeling really good. I'll be thinking of you.
xo,
marla
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