Stuck in Weimar with the Berlin Blues Again...

So there's an oblisk (their word) on a street corner in Weimer that marks the road you take to get to Buchenwald. I was standing in front of it, on a grey, cold German day, around 3:45, because I had taken the wrong bus originally, and had to wait for the next one to pick me up. And it was raining.

But let us back up a few hours.

I woke up at Michael's this morning, only to discover that the water had been turned off (it's like the commies still run east berlin....). Anyhow, it was off to the train station, where I took a 12 oclock train to Weiver, so that i could see Buchenwald.

After pestering the very kind girl sitting next to me at every stop (is this Weimar? is this Weimar?) I everntually made it into the city. it's really this charming place at first... looks like every tourist image of the German countryside. Finally I got on the bus, (the wrong one), and eventually made it to Buchenwald... where i discovered that they had already closed for the day. So I decided I'd stay overnight (goodbye another $100!)... It seems worth it, though. Would have been wrong to visit germany and not go.

As crazy as the day sounds, it actually isnät upsetting... sort of nice to get to see another city outside of Berlin.

My thoughts on going tomorrow are pretty....self-aware. There's such a sense of it being a 'profound moment' that it's hard to step out of that awareness....


Hope everyone is well (far and away the most frustraiting moment of the day is writing this....these damned German keyboards have all the punctuation in random places, and then have the z and the y switched......argh)