I just got back from possibly the most amazing weekend of my entire life! (no exaggerations) Oktoberfest was all I expected and more. From the second we got there we had the best time trying to figure out the German Train and bus station, to finding dresses to wear for the festival on friday, to probably getting a total of about 6 hours of sleep the entire weekend. After a 3 hour bus ride to the airport at 1:30 in the morning, an hour and a half plane ride to Memmingen, Germany, and then another hour long bus ride, we finally arrived in the city center of Munich, Germany. It was a bit of a stressful trip trying to find where our bus was and then where our hotel was that we were staying in for one night because we could not stay in the hostel that we had for the rest of the weekend because we had booked it through Euroadventures. But once we discovered that we needed to take a train to a bus station and then walk to our hotel, it was all smooth sailing from there. We stayed in a Best Western hotel about 40 minutes outside of the city and I think that that might've been the best night sleep that I have had since i've been in Europe. I don't know if it was because I was just so exhausted, or because the beds were super comfortable, but I definitely felt refreshed when I was waking up for Oktoberfest at 5:30 am. That's right, we had to wake up that early just to get ready and catch a bus in order to get to the festival grounds by 8:30 am. (if you get there any later, it is pretty much impossible to get inside of any of the tents). So as we're running in our dirndls (german dresses) to get to the fair grounds, we run into our friends that we were planning on meeting there, Allison and Rachel. Allison is studying in Barcelona, and Rachel is studying in Florence, and so we decided to all meet up for the biggest beer festival in the world! When we got to the grounds we went directly to the HB tent, which mainly consists of americans and people from all over the world instead of just Germany, and bought steins (huge beer mugs) right away. From then on it was the time of our lives. We met so many people from Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, and so many other places. We even ran into a few people that we had mutual friends with from the US! (which definitely proves how small of a world we actually live in). I wish I could describe the amount of fun we had clapping and learning german, drinking beer and "prosting" with everyone. It is an experience that I believe everyone has to have at least once in their life. We liked it so much that a few of us decided to go back on Saturday and do it all over again! Needless to say we didn't think that was the best decision when we were waking up at 5 am for our flight home today, but I would not have traded a second of this weekend for anything else in the world.
This was also my first experience traveling outside of England since we first got here, and it it unbelievable how different things are. I was honestly shocked to see how many people spoke english btu it was pretty awkward sometimes when we would try to talk to people and ask them for help and they had no idea what we were saying. It was a total culture shock! I could never study abroad in a foreign place that didn't have english as a main language, it is way too confusing for me. I did learn how to say thank you! as well as Hello and Goodbye, but that's about it that I got out of this unbelievable trip. The next one that I am planning on going on is to Florence to stay with my friend Rachel in 2 weeks. I'm definitely interested to see how different it is over there, especially to taste all of the amazing food that Italy has to offer! :)
I just got back from possibly the most amazing weekend of my entire life! (no exaggerations) Oktoberfest was all I expected and more. From the second we got there we had the best time trying to figure out the German Train and bus station, to finding dresses to wear for the festival on friday, to probably getting a total of about 6 hours of sleep the entire weekend. After a 3 hour bus ride to the airport at 1:30 in the morning, an hour and a half plane ride to Memmingen, Germany, and then another hour long bus ride, we finally arrived in the city center of Munich, Germany. It was a bit of a stressful trip trying to find where our bus was and then where our hotel was that we were staying in for one night because we could not stay in the hostel that we had for the rest of the weekend because we had booked it through Euroadventures. But once we discovered that we needed to take a train to a bus station and then walk to our hotel, it was all smooth sailing from there. We stayed in a Best Western hotel about 40 minutes outside of the city and I think that that might've been the best night sleep that I have had since i've been in Europe. I don't know if it was because I was just so exhausted, or because the beds were super comfortable, but I definitely felt refreshed when I was waking up for Oktoberfest at 5:30 am. That's right, we had to wake up that early just to get ready and catch a bus in order to get to the festival grounds by 8:30 am. (if you get there any later, it is pretty much impossible to get inside of any of the tents). So as we're running in our dirndls (german dresses) to get to the fair grounds, we run into our friends that we were planning on meeting there, Allison and Rachel. Allison is studying in Barcelona, and Rachel is studying in Florence, and so we decided to all meet up for the biggest beer festival in the world! When we got to the grounds we went directly to the HB tent, which mainly consists of americans and people from all over the world instead of just Germany, and bought steins (huge beer mugs) right away. From then on it was the time of our lives. We met so many people from Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, and so many other places. We even ran into a few people that we had mutual friends with from the US! (which definitely proves how small of a world we actually live in). I wish I could describe the amount of fun we had clapping and learning german, drinking beer and "prosting" with everyone. It is an experience that I believe everyone has to have at least once in their life. We liked it so much that a few of us decided to go back on Saturday and do it all over again! Needless to say we didn't think that was the best decision when we were waking up at 5 am for our flight home today, but I would not have traded a second of this weekend for anything else in the world.
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