Since today is Sunday, we were able to sleep in a little bit longer. Today breakfast was light because we decided we desperately needed to go to the gym — too many German sweets. On the walk to the gym we had an interesting conversation about how Germans don’t understand why we sometimes say the weather is “cool”. They only understand that to be something that is popular instead of weather related. The gym was the same as any one in America, just a little bit bigger and with some machines that I’d never seen before in my life. The first thing I noticed was that they keep their gyms extremely hot, as well as the fact that it seemed like most people really disliked cardio and focused more on muscle building. About halfway through our workout, your typical gigantic muscle builder came over and started giving me advice. At first I was a little bit terrified and only understood half of what he was saying, but eventually I understood his advice. It seemed that here in the gym everyone was as friendly as they are back home; every time you see someone you are greeted with “Morgen!” But outside of the gym, it seemed that you didn’t normally speak to people walking by. The view outside the gym was beautiful and inside the gym they had a little bar with drinks and protein for the people working out. On the way home we stopped and had a chocolate croissant — amazing as always. After showering and a quick nap (Mittagsschläfchen) we went to the flat downstairs where her grandmother lives and had lunch; it was cream of asparagus soup, salmon, and potatoes. I was shocked to see that they had white asparagus (maybe my parents didn’t give it to me because it was already hard enough to make me eat green asparagus). They kept saying that I was not eating enough because everyone here thinks Americans eat SO much food. A couple hours and a couple naps and Youtube watching sessions later, Olivia and Mara came over. We met Janina’s cousin and drove into the city of Frankfurt. We had dinner at a restaurant named Helium. Then we went back home and watched the American movie Wild Child. Hope everything is well in America. Ciao! ~Lindsay