Today I spent a lot of the day out in the city. I went out early afternoon and checked out a part of north east berlin I hadn't been before, and also met a friend for a mid afternoon drink at a cafe (it was quite warm out, so the drink was quite welcome). After that I headed back to my apartment (it was already near 5 by that point) to get ready for some friends to come over for dinner.
At around 6:30 Sam and Timo came over to have a dinner get together. It was quite a blast! Sam brought stuff to make really tasty sushi, as well as some stuff to drink, timo brought a few authentic german desserts, and I got the appetizer and another thing for dessert.
Besides the party itself being a lot of fun, I'm glad we did it at my place, as it forced me to finally pick up my room and get everything in order. You can actually see my desk and couch now!
But anyways, back to the food.
We ate outside on the terrace next to my apartment. There is already a table and a couple chairs there, and the weather was so nice today, that we thought it'd be a great place to eat.
Sam made the sushi at the table, which tasted quite excellent.
For an appetizer, we had wine, grapes, and french sausages (one with figs, the other with dried herbs). The Sushi was two different types of rolls: one was a vegatarian roll, with cucumbers and wasabi; the second was a roll with cucumbers, wasabi, crab, and tuna. We had two types of wine to drink, one was a spanish Rioja, and the second (more for dessert), a sweet chinese plum wine. We also had a bit of sake to celebrate Timo going to the states next week.
Then we got to the dessert!
Timo brought the middle column of three pastries, each of which are very typical german sweets. The one on the bottom is a poppyseed pastry, the middle one is made with rasins, and the top one is made with marzipan. The tart on the right and the three macaroons on the left I bought at a special chocolate/dessert shop on my street. They were kinda pricy, but incredibly tasty. If you can't tell by the picture, the tart on the right is a rasberry tart, and the macaroons are flavored (yellow = lemon, purple = rasberry, hot pink = johannesberry).
After that, Sam and Timo wanted to hear me play the piano for a bit, so I played a few of my older pieces (the Chopin Fantasy Impromtu, Brahms Rhapsody in g minor, and the Brahms Intermezzo in A). After that the two had to go.
It was quite a fun day, with a bit of running around the city in the afternoon, and then such a fun dinner party in the evening.
