Upcoming German-ness and update

[Drusia]

Hallo alle!

First - I'd like to tell everyone about some German-themed events
coming up here in SF. These could be a good break from campus life, or
an informal reunion of ppl are interested.

1. Oktoberfest by the Bay - This upcoming weekend! (Thursday - Sunday)
Full Bavarian band, traditional dancing, food and beer. Looks kind of
pricey, but the $15 entry on Sunday might be the best deal. It's the
perfect opportunity to bust out that German outfit you have in the
back of your closet. It's also a short walk from Caltrain if people
want to come up from Stanford.
http://www.oktoberfestbythebay.com/ for more info

2. Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - Next month, October 22-28 (mark
your calendars!)
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, a presentation of the Goethe-Institut
San Francisco, has been America's premier festival of new cinema from
Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1995. More info about specific
movies and showings coming soon.
http://www.berlinandbeyond.com/ for dates and location, with more
complete info coming soon

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Second - I ran into a few of you this past week and loved hearing what
everyone was up to. I can only wonder about the ppl I haven't seen!
So, if you have a minute, reply to this thread with a quick update
about your living situation (esp. abroad ppl!!), life, goals,
whatever.

I'll start... I, Drusia, spent a fruitful summer in school (studying
physics!) and am now living in SF. I share a small appt in North Beach
with this awesome engineer named Heidi and am working at Google. (So
there to all you people who voted me most likely to be unemployed.) I
spend a lot of time walking and running around my new hood, and a lot
more time riding the shuttle from SF to Mt. View and back. Also, I
think Tim is my neighbor. Hope to hear from everyone soon!

Tschuss, (<that might be spelled wrong)
Drusia

[Paul]

Sweet. Yeah I should start reading my haus mitt emails... I'm back
from New York and I'm working at the BMW Technology Office in Palo
Alto. It's awesome. Also I'm homeless. If anyone knows of a room I can
sublet starting now and for a month or two please please tell me. Also
anyone who wants to get a group together and rent a haus I am all for
it. Ok. Next.

-Paul

[Ashwin Purohit]

Paul I did some research on 1 br (6 to longer month lease) places if you want to see them, but if you're holding out for a house, then I'm not sure about the short term places. It's admirable of you to not settle. I feel terrible we couldn't find a mutually acceptable house (or people to live with us). I couldn't take jerking Aimee around anymore and not having a place I could call my own. Let me know how things progress.

[Ariana Koblitz]

weeeeee let me continue.

I spent my summer in Berlin living it up and reconnecting with some old high school friends and meeting many new friends.  The design community is an interesting one there and one I could see perhaps returning to in... twenty years? maybe twenty.  

RA training has been repetitive, but it's always nice to be able to spend time on campus without being in a 20-hr a day mixup of stress-ish scenarios. Robinson is fully decked out and I'm getting to know the residents and it'll be an awesome place to come over and chill (nudge nudge).

Fun fact: I'm reading Juan Gabriel Vasquez' "the informants" at the moment-- if you read something particularly worthy, let me know! (one of my this-year's resolutions...)

Cheers,

Ariana

[Heidi Farrell]

yay, i love this!

i'm living in san francisco in north beach with drusia. i spent the summer in SF working for joby (the gorillapod people) doing product design -- made some things that will be hitting the shelves in november; i'll keep y'all posted; i'm very excited! now i am still unpacking my room and learning where the laundromat is and such.

p.s. who's going to oktoberfest? sounds awesome. i'm in.

[Anna Rasmussen]

i miss you all!

Molly and I are in Berlin now for the quarter. We spent last week in Copenhagen just touring around and having fun. We tried to take an overnight train from Copenhagen to Berlin via Sweden but it turned into a nightmare Inception fiasco. They wouldn't let us on the train (our tickets were fucked up) so we cried until they let us just sleep in the aisle. The train went entirely into the hold (?) of a boat... so we spent the rest of our trip queasy, strung out, and confused (as to why we were on a boat).

ANYWAY, I'm thinking of you all and wishing I took german last year. Molly and I are trying to hang out with Germans but my language partner looks like a serial killer so we'll see how that goes.

Tschüs!

Anna

[Alex Larrave]

Hi everybody! I am loving the updates!

I am currently bored out of my mind. I'll be leaving for Oxford in 5 days, but until then I am passing the hours in Dallas by watching Back to the Future on TV and cooking waaay too elaborate meals for my family. I had a great summer though- I spent 2 months in Jordan on a dig and then 1 month just touring around eastern Europe. It was all so excellent, except when I missed my flight back to Dallas from Amman and ended up spending 3 extra days alone in Jordan. Adventure!

Anyway, I miss everybody in the Haus! Hope you are all doing well!

-Alex

[Tish]

Dear Mitters,

It's great to hear from everyone! @Heidi: Christian is living on the
border of North Beach and Chinatown, you guys should kick it
together sometime (he's working the crazy consulting hours though).

I spent the summer living with Phi Psi friends and doing a software
engineering internship at a startup called PrepMe. Made lots of
Singaporean/Japanese food like laksa and mochi for friends and equal
amounts of Monty Python / Mitch Hedberg / Samuel L. Jackson
references.
Went windsurfing with the Stanford Windsurfing Club almost every
weekend––brought Paul out to Coyote Pt with us once and he loved it!
Now have moved into my quad in Munger and am transitioning into my
new role as sketchy grad student. Hope to see y'all around campus
sometime!

Cheers,
Tish


On Sep 20, 6:00 am, Alex Larrave <alarr...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi everybody! I am *loving *the updates!

> I am currently bored out of my mind. I'll be leaving for Oxford in 5 days,
> but until then I am passing the hours in Dallas by watching Back to the
> Future on TV and cooking waaay too elaborate meals for my family. I had a
> great summer though- I spent 2 months in Jordan on a dig and then 1 month
> just touring around eastern Europe. It was all so excellent, except when I
> missed my flight back to Dallas from Amman and ended up spending 3 extra
> days alone in Jordan. Adventure!
> Anyway, I miss everybody in the Haus! Hope you are all doing well!
> -Alex
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Anna Rasmussen <amra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i miss you all!
>
> > Molly and I are in Berlin now for the quarter. We spent last week in
> > Copenhagen just touring around and having fun. We tried to take an overnight
> > train from Copenhagen to Berlin via Sweden but it turned into a nightmare
> > Inception fiasco. They wouldn't let us on the train (our tickets were fucked
> > up) so we cried until they let us just sleep in the aisle. The train went
> > entirely into the hold (?) of a boat... so we spent the rest of our trip
> > queasy, strung out, and confused (as to why we were on a boat).
>
> > ANYWAY, I'm thinking of you all and wishing I took german last year. Molly
> > and I are trying to hang out with Germans but my language partner looks like
> > a serial killer so we'll see how that goes.
>
> > Tschüs!
> > Anna
>

> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Heidi Farrell <heidi.ser...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> yay, i love this!
>
> >> i'm living in san francisco in north beach with drusia. i spent the summer
> >> in SF working for joby (the gorillapod people) doing product design -- made
> >> some things that will be hitting the shelves in november; i'll keep y'all
> >> posted; i'm very excited! now i am still unpacking my room and learning
> >> where the laundromat is and such.
>
> >> p.s. who's going to oktoberfest? sounds awesome. i'm in.
>

> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Ariana Koblitz <akobl...@stanford.edu>wrote:
>
> >>> weeeeee let me continue.
>
> >>> I spent my summer in Berlin living it up and reconnecting with some old
> >>> high school friends and meeting many new friends.  The design community is
> >>> an interesting one there and one I could see perhaps returning to in...
> >>> twenty years? maybe twenty.
> >>> RA training has been repetitive, but it's always nice to be able to spend
> >>> time on campus without being in a 20-hr a day mixup of stress-ish scenarios.
> >>> Robinson is fully decked out and I'm getting to know the residents and it'll
> >>> be an awesome place to come over and chill (nudge nudge).
> >>> Fun fact: I'm reading Juan Gabriel Vasquez' "the informants" at the
> >>> moment-- if you read something particularly worthy, let me know! (one of my
> >>> this-year's resolutions...)
>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Ariana
>

> >>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Ashwin Purohit <puro...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>>> Paul I did some research on 1 br (6 to longer month lease) places if you
> >>>> want to see them, but if you're holding out for a house, then I'm not sure
> >>>> about the short term places. It's admirable of you to not settle. I feel
> >>>> terrible we couldn't find a mutually acceptable house (or people to live
> >>>> with us). I couldn't take jerking Aimee around anymore and not having a
> >>>> place I could call my own. Let me know how things progress.
>

[Aaron Coleman]

Hello children.

I'm still around. Still working in Palo Alto doing iPhone stuff.
Nothing too exciting. Except that I'm announcing for the band at
football games. If you see our field shows and think "I can't hear a
word the announcer is saying" or "WTF, this announcer is awesome,"
it's me.

So come to football.

-Aaron

[Erika Streeter]

LOVES!!!!

I just figured out how this works! And I love hearing about the
updates. I left Stanford about a week ago after staffing sophomore
college and I've been bumming in SF with a friend. Yesterday I got a
tattoo. Tomorrow I leave for NY for a few dance auditions and
depending on how auditions go, I'm going to Australia mid-october and
I don't know when I'll be back. And Letitia: I saw you a while ago and
didnt realize it was you until you were far away but you looked great!
Not at all sketchy.

Yay!!
Erika

[Ryan Mac]

Hey cuties and Warma,

I'm on campus in Phi Sig writing a thesis as well as working in the city for The Bay Citizen. It'll be fun getting my feet wet in the real world while still coming back to eat and sleep at Stanford every night. David lives across the street from me. Hopefully i'll see you all soon at Haus Mitt, as long as Warma doesn't burn it down before then. 

Cheers,

Ryan

[Ashwin Purohit]

I'm moving into a studio on Castro street, and will be fat shortly. Working at 23andMe (genetics, woo). So when you come by for Dim Sum, let me know and I'll walk downstairs to join you.

On Sep 21, 2010 3:13 PM, "Ryan Mac" <rb...@stanford.edu> wrote:

Hey cuties and Warma,

I'm on campus in Phi Sig writing a thesis as well as working in the city for The Bay Citizen. It'll be fun getting my feet wet in the real world while still coming back to eat and sleep at Stanford every night. David lives across the street from me. Hopefully i'll see you all soon at Haus Mitt, as long as Warma doesn't burn it down before then. 

Cheers,

Ryan

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Erika Streeter <eevo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > LOVES!!!! > > I ju...

[Ryan Mac]

Also I flashed Warma in the Haus Mitt window the other night, and he flicked me off.

Also, I'm gonna get some Dim Sum with Ashwin, if YAKNOWWHATIMEAN.

[Aaron Coleman]

IKNOWHATYOUMEAN

-Aaron

p.s. it's buttsex

[Ashwin Purohit]

We're having Xiaolongbao, which is exactly what it sounds like.

On Sep 21, 2010 3:23 PM, "Ryan Mac" <rb...@stanford.edu> wrote:

Also I flashed Warma in the Haus Mitt window the other night, and he flicked me off.

Also, I'm gonna get some Dim Sum with Ashwin, if YAKNOWWHATIMEAN.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Ashwin Purohit <pur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm moving into a s...

[Aaron Coleman]

Sorry all, I meant buttsecks.

-Aaron

p.s. just to clarify

[Nil Adiguzel]

Hallo!

So excited to hear from all of you! After spending my summer in Turkey doing pretty much nothing for the first summer ever, I'm back for a Sociology coterm. I live at the border of San Jose and Santa Clara. Right by 280. It's really weird not living in Haus Mitt any more after 3 years! I'll hopefully use this year to find a job in the area so I can prove Drusia wrong and not be deported :)

I definitely want to go to Oktoberfest in the city this weekend. So hopefully I'll see some of you there.

viele grusse,

Nil

[Kyle Duff]

Hallo Leute!

 

I'm writing from Munich - slightly drunk and oh-so-full of Bretzeln und Schweinfleisch (in its various and ludicrous forms like Weisswurst and Leberkaese) after a day of touring and Oktoberfesting. The 200th Oktoberfest is off the chain and I have had the time of my life. It's like nothing else you will ever experience, unless you have been to a county fair before. That's about 30 percent of it. The rest is beer and beer tents. Pics gleich.

 

Enough bragging. This summer I've been hanging onto my undergraduate as long as possible by doing a Krupp Internship in Berlin. I worked in an East German hospital for 12 weeks, shadowing the doctors in the cardiology ward, taking blood, laying catheters, and talking to old people. I was also completing (and am still in the process of) filling out my medical school applications. I didn't really get a lot of down time, but I saw Moritz once and two Stanford buddies came and stayed with me, forcing me to go out and do interesting things. Now I'm taking a really short vacation through Geneva and Munich. And I fly home in 2 days. I'll soon be returning to live around Stanford and haunt Stammtisch so I can eat free and keep up my German. See you an dem Tisch und auf dem Campus!

[Molly]

Hallo!

As Anna said, we are in Germany and loving it. Erika, we need to see a
picture of this tattoo, stat.

[Michael Albada]

Hey Haus Mittens,

It's great to hear from you all. I spent my summer in Berlin doing research for my honors thesis on the Weimar Republic at the Staatsarchiv and Freie Universität library, and it was a blast. There are are curious few who like sifting through old tomes, and I am one of them. I spent time connecting with old friends and making new ones, and made it back down to rural Bayern, as well as to Hamburg.

I got back early for Honors College, and am living in couples housing in EV with Heather this year. She's doing an Americorps volunteer job at East Palo Alto Academy High School, a really cool charter school that busses in EPA students and sends 90% off to four-year colleges and universities. I'm stoked for my last year and will be busy writing my thesis, and may be even be teaching brewing again at Haus Mitt this quarter, details TBA.

I'm smelling a reunion pretty soon...

Mit besten Grüße,

Michael

[Kana Hammon]

Hi everyone!

I was in Chicago for the summer working for a non-profit that produced free, weekly classical music concerts, which was really fun but also so busy! I'm glad to be at school again where I have more time to relax, and where there is no humidity or freakish thunderstorms.

I'm hanging out in Robinson with Ari Weeeeee and Ariana, but not in a triple. My room also has a loft. It's pretty nice even though it's far away. I have some free time in my schedule and the first week I did almost no homework, which means that I get to do fun things sometimes. I've already made one pillow and one cupcake apron! SO, if you need any room decorations, come visit. Seriously. Also, if you have a kitchen and want pretzels or other yummy food, please let me know.

I've run into a few of you (David petted my back while I was on my bike. It was weird.), and hopefully I'll see more of you soon. If I can wake up early enough, I might come learn how to make bagels on a Friday.

Kana

P.S. Ryan and Ashwin, bring me with you next time you eat xiaolongbao!!!!!!!!

[Heidi Farrell]

Haha, Kana. Love this update.

P.S. Everyone, I went to Oktoberfest on Saturday and it was legit.I did the polka for five straight hours and must not have been wearing shoes(?) because when I woke up the next morning my feet were black. Also, check out this contest that I'm going to win: http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/usa-ca/heidi-contest.html Anyone have a goat I can borrow? Warma, will you be my goat boy Peter?

[Kyle Duff]

I approve. Cupcake aprons, strange and unwelcome "petting"-on-the-back, and contests you were born to win. Aww guys, I miss you! Hope to catch up with a lot of you when I get up to Stanford soon. 

[Tim Garibaldi]

Just found this little educational video that I thought might help everyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzk_F_wqW9I

Also, I live in SF near Heidi and Drusia, so yall should go visit them sometime and then I can come too but not have trash/cleaning up to do!!

Also, seeing as Stanford dominates, I will be at all home games this year.  Hopefully I'll see a bunch of yall around!

[Ryan Mac]

i'm confused as to why Tim didn't start his email with:

"Hey guys, Haus Mitt going?"

i died a little inside.

[Ashwin Purohit]

I'm confused as to why I saw your face on the side of a restaurant on
Castro street.

--
Ashwin Purohit

[Ryan Mac]

that's cuz i finished the pho challenge aka 2 pounds of meat and 2 pounds of noodles in 32 minutes aka worst stomachache ever aka record setter.

also aka puked in a bowl right after.

[Ryan Mac]

i also want to give a shout out to tim garibaldi whose beautiful face i saw at treasure island yesterday

[Kana Hammon]

Pho challenge! Gross!!!!!

P.S. I saw Drusia and Heidi today. There is photographic evidence. Be jealous!

[Kyle Duff]

Tagging Heidi and Drusia as one of your handicrafts on Facebook is not legitimate evidence. Although their faces would be all the more beautiful, were Kana to sew them herself.