Listen up my German friends....AXE body spray is not the solution

So in the US you always see those commercials for AXE body spray, but do you know anyone that actually uses it as it's depicted in the commercials.  That is by dousing yourself in a fine mist after a hard workout?  Well come to Europe because here that's exactly how they use it.  Can you believe they actually have a chocolate flavored one?  Anyway, let's discuss the real issue here.  AXE body spray...even when used for 30 second aerosol showers, does not get rid of BO.  In fact, it just masks.  It is like when someone takes a big dump in a bathroom and then uses floral bathroom freshener.  It just makes the bathroom smell like flowery shit.  Well the same idea applies here...(Tim Isgitt)

NOTE:  To all my real German friends, I'm not speaking about you...these are just examples of peculiar (wow, it's really hard to spell that word!  Try sounding it out aloud...you'll sound ridiculous) things that I notice at McFit.

Okay, in addition to the body spray I also have noticed several other things that are funny at the gym here.

• They call going to the gym "doing sport" which is constantly throwing me off
• Apparently going to the gym means dressing like you're going to the beach.  It is not uncommon to see someone working out with flip flops and board shorts on.
• The stretching out your ear lopes thing just went one step further.  Today, the guys ear ring holes were stretched with what I think was a rubber ring and it was so large you could fit a ping pong ball through it.  Apparently he likes the fashion in national geographic.
• The mute thing is working, I haven't said a word to anyone at the gym yet
• And the kicker:  The female employees are CONSTANTLY in the men's locker room picking up towels, sweeping the floors...I'm sorry, but I was completely thrown off guard by this.  Doesn't that defeat the purpose of single sex locker rooms?

Okay, now for the update on my upcoming adventure.  Tomorrow I will go to Hamburg and my mode of transportation is basically a computer based version of hitch-hiking.  (Don't worry mom, it's completely safe, this is Germany).  But basically I posted an ad saying I wanted to go to Hamburg tomorrow around a specific time and I found Claudia, who barely speaks English, drives a white VW, and is picking me up at a petrol station near the Spree (the main river that runs through Berlin).  Wish me luck, or pray for me, whichever your convention.

In other news I gotta get to studying.  I have been slacking and my classes start next Monday and I don't want to be the "slow kid."  From what I've heard everyone that goes to these Sprachenshules (Language Schools) already speaks like 4 languages.  I don't want to be the ignorant American.  Although, it's in all likelihood inevitable.

Tschus!