"oh God, she's home."

This was my roommate's reaction to our homestay host coming home. :) Our host is actually pretty nice, but she is a little intense.

Today Julie and I went to this absolutely HUGE book/CD/DVD store. When I say huge, I mean like 5 levels. It was amazing. Of course, we did spend way too much time (and money) there, but it was a great store. :) And they actually did have books in English, so I had to buy one. of course. I bought Village Incognito by Tom Robbins. I've never read a book by him, but I hear he is good.

We also hit a couple of thrift stores. I bought 3 scarves for only 1.50 euros. And I bought a skirt that was five euros that I am going to turn into a purse. YAY new project. :)

We also had a lecture today. It was about the German feminism movement, which in a sense is nonexistent. That is, there are many feminist projects, groups, and women in politics, but because of the different ideologies between eastern and western Germany, a unified "movement" as such isn't happening. But there is still a great deal of women's projects, as I said. For instance, there is an area of Berlin (where we had a lecture the other day) where all the shops and businesses have to be owned by women. I thought that was kinda cool. It's so interesting learning the different forms that feminism takes in different countries. For instance, in Czech, feminists are not so apt to push full employment for all women because most women were employed under communism and it did not equal emancipation, an idea that is often pushed by feminists in the US. It is also interesting to learn about how communism worked in practice because there are both positive and negative aspects. . .

Anyway, I should run. I am getting kind of hungry.

Jennifer