Life is an adventure.

So far, today has been full of amazing adventures. I got out of the Hauptbanhof in Frankfurt  at around 10am and amused myself for twenty minutes watching the junkies, trannies, and hookers get their morning fix. A cracked out Turkish soccer fan and drunk German soccer fan nearly got into a fight, throwing their beers and cigarettes down on the groud and beating their chests like apes. In the same area, I watched a man walk for two blocks with his hand down his pants, rubbing his dick in clear view of passing traffic and.... everybody. He then proceeded to shake hands with three people and pet a dog for five minutes. 

Then I walked down the swankiest street in the city with Sara and Polly, watching Ralph Lauren-clad babies play with their snooty older parents who sipped espressos and looked down on the passerby. I remembered what it was like to be five years old again when we went to the fountain outside the old opera house, and six-year-old Lola and I started splashing water at each other. I sampled turkish sweets, ate bratwurst and corn on the cob in an outdoor market, and tried a fried flower. Yes, they deep fry flowers here. And they are topped with cinnamon sugar. Frankly, it tastes like fried batter and sugar, not so much like a flower. It was an experience, to say the least. I saw a man wearing nothing but european manpris (man capris) and a leather vest unbuttoned so that his chest hair was in full view. Sara and I went on a whirlwind five minute shopping spree at H&M and spent twenty minutes waiting to pay while the world's slowest cashier took forever to ring up our purchases. 

I used to think that three things were important in life - successful career, successful career.... oh and successful career. Yes, work is important, but it's not the only thing. A retarded guy helped me learn that. Well, an actor playing a retarded guy. At the end of sophomore year, I stayed up with my friends and watched the movie "Forrest Gump." Throughout the movie, I was pissed! Here, I had wasted my whole life trying to hit one goal, and I'm missing out on everything else. I know it's scripted, I know it's a movie, but the fact that someone with such a simple outlook on life can have such amazing adventures... it floored me. So, I decided to do something about it. I took a job in a foreign country, stopped being such an uptight bitch, and tried weird and different things just so I can say I've done them. 

Life is good.

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