I must have been Bayrish in my last life..

Highlights:
1. dirndl (Bavarian dress) shopping with julia
2. walking around münchen in the rain with Kevin
3. Gay parade in Munich! aka Christopher Street Day with Kevin and jeff
4. partying with Bernhard, matti, and the bayrish guy until 5 in the morning
5. first time ever going to a club alone. at 5 in the morning. lying about my identity.

I woke up at a “decent hour“ as my mom would say ( i miss that woman) and did a little cleaning. Watched more CNN and worked on my thesis idea a little more..

I met up with Julia in the afternoon and we went dirndl shopping!!! It was sooo fun.. we just tried on different colored dirndls lol. a Dirndl is the typical Bavarian dress that women wear. Theyre totally cute and totally flattering. apparently girls wear ridiculous push up bras to fill out their dresses hahaha… I have some pics below but unforrttcchhh I didn't use the push up situation.

I met up with Kevin later and we walked around everywhere in munich.. we went from Leopold strasse all the way to isartor!! which is like 4 u-bahn stops.. so u know that's a serious walk. it was really nice even though it was raining. I had straightened my hair that morning so I was a little poofy (but I learned my lesson and didn't straighten it the next day lol)

We spent some time at the Christopher Day Parade ( munich’s gay parade.. although because of the rain there was no parade) which was like a much-tamer versions of San Francisco‘s Love Parade/Fest. Did you know that those things have absolutely no reported violence? We saw a funny old man dancing in a column and I filmed it lol.. (we went back the next day in hopes that the old man would still be there, but alas he was not, so took pics of us in there instead).

That night I met up with Bernhard, Jacqui‘s friend, and he turned out to be pretty intense…ly cool!! We went to a party at his (hot but unfortunately gay) dj friend‘s house and partied the night away. I met a lot of reallllly cool people and this one cool Austrian chick who im supposed to hang out with later this week and go to the tollwood fest with. she kind of looks Californian. and if we were in oc I probably would never hang with someone that looks like her, but I don't think American stereotypes hold in germany, so lets see! her name is Michaela.

the party was crazy awesome.. but Bernhard and his bayrish friend were air-guitarring and it was the most interesting thing I have ever seen at a party lol.. I couldn't stop laughing.. earlier in the night they told mem that there had been an air-guitar competition that day hahahhahahahha whichw ouldve been SO FUNNY to watch.. they asked me if iwas into air-guitarring and I said I was a champion at berkely. (hahahaha and they believed me) and I told them I would compete with them later that night, which I didn't, but apparently they had taken me seriously.

anyway, I didn't air guitar with them, but I did rock out a little to red hod chilli peppers when they came on…I miss RHCP!! i want to see them live.

I ended up leaving at around 5 ish am with the Austrian chick. since I was at poccistrase I thought I could walk home, but that is still 4 stops to my house and that is probably at least a good hour or two walk so I decided not to.. instead I went to a club on my way home to dance the time away until the u-bahn started running again at 6 am.

when I got there I felt pretty awkward- holding an umbrella, my coat, no drink, and alone, I walked over to the floor and just started dancing lol. it was pretty funny and I had to seriously stop myself from laughing at myself. this random 5’6 guy tried to get close to me but I kept bouncing away, and bounced right into this 35 yr old who asked me if I wanted a drink.

I got a gin and tonic and danced around a little. This is who I was:

Name: Michaela
BirthPlace: Barcelona, Spain
Current Residence: New York
Job: Newsreporter
Length of stay in Munich: 1 week
Age: 27
Munich Residence: “really far away“


lol..I had such a blast.. I told the guy I would BRB after I was totally done talking to him.. went over to the bathroom to pee and sit down a little. I gave my drink to a 17 yr old in the bathroom who looked like she could definitely use a little more alcohol (not). I took a poster from the bathroom and head out towards the ubahn..

I got home around 6.. took a nice long shower since I reeked like second hand smoke and passed out until 3 pm the next day.

july 4

A plethora of red, white and blue marked the terrace of the 16-or-so-storey apartment building in Arabella Park. It all started with four Americans and a German - slowly yet surely inebriating themselves with jello-shots and lost beer-pong games. Before they knew it, the group of five grew to fifteen, fifteen grew to twenty-five, and twenty-five grew to a number no one recalls.



As the sun set, it is possible that fireworks were viewed in the distance.





A barbeque tried to mediate the various levels of intoxication but it was too late; the damage was done. Four drunk Americans and numerous Germans spent another wonderfully un/forgettable night in the city of München.





xoxo America - Happy Birthday... this one is to you!

(pics coming soon)

I smell Vintage…

Why is it that every time you walk into a vintage store you are greeted with the same smell?



I'm not quite sure, but I found an awesome vintage store in München...

I was walking around last week near Isartor and found a boutique which had clothing for people who are in love with MIA’s style. I wandered about the 3-storey house of wonders and found all sorts of things from the 80’s, 90’s, and today, including items which were clearly second-hand.

I had no idea from the name of the boutique that it might’ve been a Buffalo Exchange or Crossfoads Trading Company type of store, but the faint smell which began to envelope me towards the back of the boutique clearly indicated to my senses that this was no Nordstroms.

I found all sorts of vintage “ugly" sweaters which I absolutely LOVE, a fabulous pair of grey skinny jeans (new) and tons and tons of funky party-wear. I didn't buy anything but I’m definitely going back for the grey skinnies.

Everything wasn't all that great though. The boutique seemed namely to be a mixture of a vintage store, a really cheap Forever 21, and DKNY; an interesting combination which requires the customer to hunt for a good find and be extremely creative with his or her dress style.

Rating: 4 / 5 (on a good day).





i love m i a

a fabulous weekend with mum and my crazy friends

Gosh. ive been horrible about b logging so you KNOW ive been busy…

Friday my mom came into town, and I picked her up from the airport. we went around town on sat, I showed her marineplatz, odeonsplatz, and karlsplatz. it was a fabulous day of platz’s. we walked around town in search of the alte pinakothek and after we finally found it (we didn't take a map because I thought I knew where it was.. turned out I didn't lol, as usual) we walked around within the museum listening to captions in English, thankfully, for a few hours. there were a few too many paintings of jesus for my liking, but my mom enjoyed it so we stayed on. After all, she had come alllll the wayyyy from California.

we were pretty tired from walking around all day so we went back to my lovely apartment. I got a call from Julia, they were gonna partttyyy it up… I wasn't sure if my mom would be too excited about me going out, but she said “I don't want to cramp your style“ and with that I got ready to head out. Knowing I would drink, she made dinner, a fabulous Indian dish of rice and fish, so I quickly ate and left to go meet up with the girls ( Julia, Marielle, and Koko).

SATURDAY NIGHT

I met up with them at a sexy little bar near Vish’s house, so I called him up to see what he was doing. Turned out he was right next door, so we met up with him and his friends and we all went over to Ed Moses for the night.

The bouncer at EM was a total ass-hole and gave me and Julia major shit. We weren’t quite sure what his issue was, but we’re pretty sure it had something to do with how sexy Julia and I are lol. He decided for some reason that he wouldn't let us in, so we went and stood by the back entrance and a sexy Persian looking boy, whom none of us knew, ended up letting us in so it all worked out in the end. I swear, everywhere I go I end up becoming friends with Persians.

Of course, unfortunately, we couldn't get Vish and his friends (Pierre, and Englishman, and another German guy named Stephan) in that way, so they had to deal with the bouncer but eventually we all were inside dancing to lovely electro musique.

I met a couple randoms that night, this hot dj named Fabio who said we could get into his bar anytime, a cool chick who said I absolutely MUST go to Heidlburg, and another cool chik whos boyfriend gave me a few sips of his Radler.

Marielle left early because she was tired and eventually Koko and Julia left too, but I stayed on to party with my international group of friends.

Towards the end of the night, Pierre said that I shouldn't be attracted to him because he was boring when he was sober (all in an English accent) and the German ended up stripping... AWESOME NIGHT all n all lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L, sexy stripping german boy, in the white = pierre, and up front is fabio!

vish, me and pierre hahahha dont we look fabulous

At some point around 4 am, Vish and I left EM to go to another bar, which was pretty shitty, and realizing that we were done dancing for the night we went over to see the English Garden in its early morning beauty. It was pretty gorgeous but I think I was too drunk to appreciate it…So we played some drunken games in the garden instead.

The whole thing was covered in fog.. There were a few people walking around and all you could see were silhouettes. Awesome for someone whos sober and knows the crime rate in München ( close to 0%) but a little scary for a girl who’s used to San Francisco’s crime rate ( umm 100% ? ). A little freaked out in a new place it was hard to keep my cool, but I managed, nothing happened, and Vish and I ended up having a blast walking around and checking out the Garden..

I didn't end up getting home till around 11.30 am. I apologized to my lovely mum, but she didn't mind and actually let me sleep for a few hours. I woke up around 3, my mom made lunch, and then we went back over to the English Garden to walk around.

ENGLISH GARDEN vs. ENGLISH GARDEN
I must say that my experience from that morning was much different than my afternoon experience, though both were equally lovely.

I shared a beer with my mom in the bier garden at the Chinese Term, and my mom and I shared gossip about everything that was going on back home…It was pretty awesome. I love my mommy.


Mum and I walked around some more, and checked out the Isartor. There was a beauuuuutiful sunset there that we thouroughly enjoyed after peeing at the local MccyDees (which is pretty much all that McDonalds is good for: its public restrooms).

We ate at a Turkish place. My mom had a veggie wrap thingy and I had a yummy sandwhich and we took our meal over to the River near Muffathalle (another bier garden) and hung out by the river.

After such a long weekend, I slept pretty well that night.