Wow, I’m posting FAST! We arrived in Munich and called Matthias, an exchange student that had stayed on MDI when we were sophomores, he was one of the people that really inspired me to do an exchange year, and we all had gotten pretty close. We explored Munich for a little bit, and left our bags in the storage lockers, then got on a train to his house which was about 30 minutes outside of the city, when we got there we were overwhelmed by how gracious he was and so happy to see us! We got ready, and headed back to the city to explore. He showed us so many things in such a short amount of time, it was pretty impressive. He was a very good tour guide. We went to the Haufbrauhaus, a famous beer hall, and all shared a liter beer... That’s a lot of beer. After that, we went to a typical restaurant, we all shared suckling pig, grilled pig, sauerkraut, potato dumplings and more beer.. It was the most gratifying meal ever.. Delicious. He showed us the city at night, which was beautiful and we all got ghulwein, a heated red wine... I hated it, Kira loved it. It was like sickly sweet and smelled horrible... For me, at least. We walked around some more and enjoyed the sights, and he showed us some famous statues, and the only boulevard in Munich, which is pretty famous. Kira and I loved it. We got back to his house and just hung out and talked and met his parents! They were so nice, and offered tea and coffee, and food, and cookies, and anything we could ask for. SO NICE. The next day, Matthias had to leave with his parents to go to his grandmother’s birthday party, but they offered to let us stay there and hangout, because our bus was at 1 am.. We felt pretty humbled by the amount of kindness they showed, and seriously did not expect how much they would do for us.. Pretty amazing.. Kira and I left after our goodbyes, and went to the city to try and get some better pictures, which mostly failed because of the rain.. So we hung out at the train station for a bit and decided to bring some flowers to Matthias’ house to give them a small thank you for their kindness. We got off the train, and were crossing the street, and saw his parents taking a walk! They called us over and we awkwardly handed them the wrapped up tulips, and they insisted that we go back with them to their house. They made us tea, and gave us more cookies than we could EVER eat, and we just talked about MDI and Munich, and about everything. After they fed us with delicious meats, cheeses, breads, and sundried tomatoes, gave us a bag of chocolate, movies, and sparkling juice for the road, we thanked them again and we headed to the bus station with the directions they provided us. I really can’t express how nice they were. We waited in the bus station for an hour, and then got on the bus to PRAGUE!
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