Two of my floormates gave me a chocolate bunny for Easter.
I used watercolors to create these two thank you cards for my incredibly kind floormates.
I also created one ink drawing to add a little variety. Funnily enough, I realized after the fact that I was channeling Albrecht Dürer, a renowned German Renaissance artist who famously painted a rabbit. In my high school German class, we translated his biography.
Marienplatz is as lovely as always.
While walking through the city I stumbled upon this poster, which I really like. It’s a basic tenant of urban design that highlights the importance of shared spaces for the health of society.

This week was nice and calm. Some people slowly trickled back from Easter Break throughout the week, but it was mostly quiet. I finished reading another book this week. Of course I still enjoyed some of the usual activities like chatting in the kitchen and playing badminton and darts. On Tuesday I drew and painted some bunnies as Easter thank-you’s for some floormates who gifted me chocolate bunnies. 

On Friday night we had a party since some floormates had wrapped up their exams and school responsibilities for the semester. After a fun-filled night, Saturday was thankfully a lazy day. We decided we would have a traditional Bavarian breakfast: “Weißwurst mit süßem Senf, Brezel und Weißbier,” or “White sausage with sweet mustard, a pretzel, and wheat beer.” Although we opted to skip the wheat beer, the rest of the breakfast was quintessential. First we swung by the butcher shop and the bakery. Once we returned to Roncalli we boiled the sausages and brought our breakfast down to the Innenhof to enjoy in the sun. Later in the afternoon we sat outside again since the week had been cold and rainy. We just couldn’t get enough of the fresh air, so in the evening we decided to grill and enjoy a group dinner outside. 

Sunday was another peaceful day. I streamed German Mass, did some yoga, took a walk with Samantha, cleaned my room, and ended the evening with the now routine Sunday pizza. 

As an aside, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung,” or the “South German Newspaper,” wrote an article about living in student dorms during the pandemic and interviewed some Roncallists. While the article is in German, Google Translate might be able to give you further insight into our dorm’s culture.

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