Austria and now Berlin

Well, it turned out that I got quite sick, which is why its been awhile since my last post. I ended up in Salzberg, Austria for a night and a day. I loved Salzberg and it was snowing lots. My waterproof boots had been giving me blisters and so I stupidly wore my tennis shoes out in the snow and proceeded to walk around Salzberg for 4 hours straight, seeing amazing things. I saw the best Catherdarl yet, an amazing market, the palace, mozert’s birthplace and Sound of Music sights. I also had thebest dense peasant bread, fresh out of the oven from a very old bakery. By the time I had to go catch my train to Berlin, my feet were soaking and I felt feverish (silly me getting all wet and cold to see beauty). The train ride of 8 hours to Berlin involved lots of chills, swimming-looking snow-covered austrain and german hills, swooning, and burning fever eyes. I slept a bit but had delerium nightmares. I reached berlin and crashed for 15 hours, thankfully!
I am staying in a very lovely little flat with a roomate, Miriam, a very nice person who even collected me from the train station. Lucky for me because I could have ended up in poland in my state. I have my own room (something quite strangely wonderful to have at this stage of the game) and have had the best couple of days here!
Yesterday I spent getting better and Miriam cooked me fish, rice and veggies for dinner. Today I got up and went to a wonderful dance class, 30 min walk from here and the dance teacher knows Michael’s brother’s friend in Amsterdam who i will visit next. I was worried that I might be weak as a kitten from not dancing for 2 months, but I felt great. I have many lovely battle wounds from tusseling with the floors. In addition to the run-of-the-mill floor burns and brusies my feet have gotten soft from wearing shoes all the time, so on my feet I have excessive burns, bruises and generally creamed toes. But of course i love it. I fell like I bathed in my essence today because after dance class I had a walk home in the falling snow and found the best organic market I’ve found since the states. I bought all manner of lovlies in the store and had a good time just trying to read the german labels. That’s the kinda stuff I really dig. just walking around a market and looking at stuff. I walked back home from the market, still snowing, and made some sick-tea (ginger, lemon, honey, nettle, thyme, lavendar, hibiscus and dandelion) that I brought from home and sang along to my Ipod really loud cause the roomate wasn’t home. Then I made dinner. I baked some sweet potatoes and marinated some tofu in a pineapple yellow curry to which i added copious amounts of ginger and garlic. Later, i fried the well-marinated tofu with onions, carrots, fennel, brown mushrooms, and spinach. I served it with the sweet potatoes and wild rice. it was soooooooo good. I love berlin so far even though I haven’t seen much of it. it is a city that feels small and a little timid. It is lively but at the same time quiet. I am glad that I will be here until saturday. I am going back to more dance class tomorrow and then a sauna with my roomate.

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