Ballet, Bon-Bons and Beautiful Weather... Finally

AGAIN I have lapsed in my duties to this blog... Dahhhh it is very hard to keep up.

Well... since my last post, Katelyn and I have done many things, including visiting several of Munich's churches—the Frauenkriche and the Theatinerkirche to name a few. We climbed up to the top of the Frauenkirche tower and saw all of Munich from up above. It was gorgeous. We also visited the Residenz, where all the royals of Bavaria and the kings and dukes lived.

We have also graced the halls of the Pinothek der Moderne (the modern art museum) and the Kunsthalle, where we saw a really cool exhibit about Walt Disney. We saw these exhibits whilst we were sick, hence the bon-bons title. (I wanted to keep the alliteration, you see.) My friend Hillary was sick, and unfortunately passed it to me, and I passed it to Katelyn. Now we both cough all the time, but I think we are recovering, and thank God it didn't last very long. (Knock on wood.)

Last night we attended a ballet—A Cinderella Story—at the Staatsoper, and it was lovely and nice, except for that we had seats on the very right hand side so we couldn't see all of the stage, and therefore not the whole picture. But the music was really pretty and so was the dancing, so it was an experience nonetheless.

Oh. And during the mornings of the past three days, I could be found sitting in a chair at the International Office at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität... trying to matriculate.

The first time, I waiting with my number for two hours before I was called, only to be told that the form Fulbright had given me for my health insurance was not valid somehow and that I had to go down to the Mensa to the Techniker Krankenkassse office and get them to write me a confirmation saying I was, indeed, insured. So after trying to find that office for a while, I stood in line there for a half and hour, had a nice complicated chat with the bloke there before he finally ended up agreeing to write me the dang confirmation I needed for matriculation.

So, I trekked back to the Uni, and they accepted that paper but then said it was now too late to see the woman who could register me, and that I would need to come back tomorrow.

So the next day, I waited with my number for THREE hours, and when they called my number I finally thought I was going to be over and done with the whole process, only to be told that the name the bloke at TK had written on the form was not mine. He had read my forms from Fulbright too fast and had written down one of the commission's staff members' name down instead. So guess what? I had to go back and get another one, but I would again have to come back the next day because it would be too late again to register as the office would be closed by the time I got back.

Anyone who saw my face after that little adventure and as I stomped off to the TK to get another stupid health confirmation immediately stepped out of my way. Probably to their best interest because my head was probably looking like it was going to explode. Or that I was going to make someone else's head explode. In short—I was SO frustrated with this whole situation that tears of anger were welling up in my scrunched up and glaring eyes.

So today, I got up at 7 and was at the office before they opened, and I was the first one they called in. And FINALLY all my paperwork was correct and they registered me. My GOD that was seriously one of the most frustrating and time-consuming processes ever. HFaigeowjagpejnrptjwajoyrwryw. Sorry. Still feeling the effects of it even though it is, at last, taken care of.

YAY.

Now we are getting ready to go to Schloss Nymphenburg to see the grounds and also to go to the Mensch und Natur Museum (the natural history museum!!!). And tomorrow we are taking the train to Füssen to see Schloss Neuschwanstein, Kind Ludwig's famous fairytale castle (also seen in Sleeping Beauty). And the weather has finally turned from rain to sunshine. So I hope that stays, at least for a little bit...

I will post pictures of many things when I get back!!!