Friday, June 22 - Elisha

School today was soooooo boring.  All everyone did was sit around and hang out if they didn't go to church to wait for their final grades, so I stayed in the classroom to do my bullet journal for July, which was peaceful.  The last day of school seemed like ours in watching the seniors leave, except everyone seemed like a senior.  Everyone in GAPP met up at a local ice cream shop down the hill form the school for a treat, which turned into a 2 hour hangout, but it was very nice.  After eating and talking, half of us walked to a local grocery store to buy snacks.  German grocery stores have a lot better food than us, and they are just cooler in general, but not sure how though.  The shelves seem shorter than American grocery store shelves and there's no aisle just for cereal!  I'm not sure how they live without cereal, but they do.  They have a super small selection of boxed mixes for cakes, muffins, etc, which was nice to see compared to us having anything you can think of in a box.

Our original plan was to see a German rapper in Saarbrueken that night with Mona and Hannah but we were all too tired so we just went to the big shopping are with Gabe and Flo tagging along.  We all rode the train together and we split into two groups where we all just shopped.  I spent 70 Euros on one sweater and have no regrets.  We went into H&M and all tried on ice cream hats and played awards with them.  We almost missed the train again (we nearly miss it almost every time), so we had to walk really fast and we made it.  When we got back home we went to the local garden to meet up with everyone again and have one last hangout in Germany.  We played star tipping and took Polaroids of whoever got spinned to make them blind and dizzy and to get a funny Polaroid out of it.  We all made our way to the Doener and pizza shop to eat and get warmed up since it was colder out.  This night was also a bittersweet moment.  At midnight everyone sang happy birthday to me and gave me a big group hug and then everyone gave me a hug individually.  They planned that beforehand and it made me cry.  I usually hate my birthday but everyone in GAPP made it the best one yet.