6/25

Today I felt pretty horrible. The only thing I wanted to do was work on the painting that is almost done, but I think since I ended up drawing right in the sun, that didn't help me feel too much better. Perhaps I've been thinking about so much that my body just wanted to let me know that it needed to catch up with me.

However, I have never had so many people come up to me and ask about a drawing that I've been working on. Either that's not that common here in Mainz, or I must have been doing something well! It was wonderful to get to talk to people that were all so genuinely interested, and in german too! It was quite encouraging and wonderful to finally talk to people in another language, but not so objectively.

We tried to find rental bikes, but the only place here turns out to be closed. Our plan for tomorrow is to just rent the city bikes that are at stations around town.

Once we got back I crashed hard. I really wasn't feeling well and had a huge headache. I started feeling better once I got a chance to get back to working on the painting, and had a chance to talk to Haylee on skype :)

6/24

Another slower day. This time, with the mission to go out and create a painting. Most of the day was spent relaxing, playing some League. Later on we eventually made our way into town and I got to get started on the gift that I am working on for the Pfeiffers for letting us stay so long here in Mainz :)

Later on we went to a recommended Portuguese restaurant, which was a little disappointing, but still a cool unique little place. Maybe we just didn't order the right thing. Honestly, my mind was still on finishing the painting...

Work in progress...

6/23

Today I was more out of it than I feel like I've been on the entire trip. It was just weird vibes all around. Not in a horrible way, more just a 'in my own head too much' kind of way.

Regardless I was able to get some stuff done! Aryeh and I went shopping and got some groceries, I ended up realizing that post offices are pretty much exactly the same here (except there's more yellow) , and we got to see some fireworks by the river at night!

Plus this rad indie electronic group was playing on our way back. Picked up their CD. TripAdLib is their name. Hopefully I can edit together their track along with the footage I got!! Check out their site it rules!!

6/22

Book fair, churches, modern synagogue.

The hardest part was not wanting to have every single german book that I looked at. So many exciting opportunities.