Ice skating fun and a little German culture

This weekend I tried to go the the Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" show at the planetarium, but it was sold out. All´s well, though, because I bought a ticket for this Friday, and there will be a little party with a band and stuff so in the end it worked out better.

On Sunday I went to Erfurt to go ice skating (this, by the way, I´ve discovered is a very hard word to say if you´re not a native German speaker. Everybody ready? Here we go-´Schlittschuhlaufen´, pronounced shlit-shoo-lau-fen, the ´au´ is pronounced like the ´ou´ in ´mouse´. Say that three times fast. Phew, that was a toughie.). Anyway, there is an indoor ice skating rink named after some famous skater(speed skater, I think, not figure) from Erfurt that I´ve never heard of, who also had a difficult name to pronounce and remember. It was a good time for sure. And it´s also nice that I´m starting to hang out with my fellow Aiesecers more, now that the Jazzmeile is winding down and there aren´t so many fabulous concerts to go to. Afterward, we went to a coffeeshop to warm up a little bit. I tried ginger coffee-mmmm. It was really good, strong coffee sweetened with honey and it had whip cream and ginger powder sprinkled on top. Tasty, to say the least.

Anyhoo, I kind of lied before when I said I haven´t been going to concerts lately, because it just so happens last night I went to one. hehe. It was at a church called Michaelskirche and we saw and heard Mozart´s Requiem. It was very beautiful, the music, the symphony and choir, the church-definitely and all around nice atmosphere.

Check out some pics from my wonderful Sunday!