GERMANY IS GOING TO THE FINAL!!!!

I was actually really awake this morning, but unfortunately had the worst stomachache that bothered me all the way through class this morning. A guy gave a presentation on Otaku (means geeeky/nerd in Japanese) and it was pretty interesting, but took awhile for me to figure out how it completely tied in with mediaculture. It's a strange subculture that is actually somewhat disturbing because people who are considered otaku have obsessive interests usually in anime and/or comics. We saw a few magazines that are popular among these people and they were really disturbing because many of them showed young girls who were dressed up playing different roles looking much more mature than they actually are. The whole thing was just weird to me.

Since I wasn't feeling well I decided to not go to my internship and just chilled in my apartment for the rest of the day and did laundry and worked on moving my pictures from my computer to my external hard drive since my computer was pretty much as full as full can get! It was great to just chill for the entire afternoon. It thunderstormed and poured early in the afternoon and really cooled things off since it was really hot and humid this morning and yesterday. Whooo!

I went to Heidi's before watching the big Germany v. Turkey game at AJY. Matthias came to AJY later to watch the game and luckily got along really well with Eric. Let's just say that both of them like to talk a lot. Tonight's game determined who would play in the final and the excitement was just insane. There are a ton of Turkish people in Germany (especially in cities like Mannheim and even more in Berlin) so quite a few people were nervous about this game. We really are lucky that AJY is located directly in the Altstadt because we have a great place to watch the game and are also right in the middle of all of the excitment. The game was so nervewracking, especially since Turkey scored the first goal. And then Germany tied it up and scored another goal in the second half. We thought we had it since there were only 10 minutes until the end, but Turkey scored again and tied everything up. The worst part about the whole game was that the station lost signal with the broadcaster in Switzerland and we had to listen to the game on the tv via radio. We were all going crazy!!! But finally in the last few minutes Germany scored and from then on it was just insane. We probably stood at the windows in AJY for a half an hour just watching the people go crazy in the streets. They were singing and cheering and it was the coolest thing to see. What a perfect time to be here!!! Even if they don't win the final...(which they totally will!!!) experiencing the hype and excitement up until now has been soooo worth it!!! Auf geht's Deutschland!!!!