After a fresh but small breakfast this morning we left at about 9 o'clock for the Hollywood Boulevard, to visit Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Two hours and about 2000 pictures with all kinds of sometimes surprisingly famous humans, manufactured in hundreds of hours later, it was time for shopping and picture taking with literal stars at the world famous walk of fame.

Me and the guys from Star Trek

Walk of Fame!

Many L.A. traffic minutes later, we were standing at Huntington Beach—the City of Surf. Three and a half hours of free time were to spend. Some of us went straight to the beach and enjoyed the clouds and the cold waves, some went shopping, some people such as myself enjoyed a late lunch at one of the various (fast food) restaurants, and some of us found hot surfer guys you might find in Baywatch or one of the many other TV shows about and around the two coasts of the US of A. I personally enjoyed the conversation between two of our girls and one of these well trained surfer "athletes" where I heard such hilarious quotes as "Stay tuned for my model career!" or "I can show you what L.A. is all about". But my absolute favorite was the help this, apparently attractive surfer asked for to stretch his muscles.

Later this scene was repeated by me and one of the girls. The only two things I want to say to about this are: 1. She called me sweet, and 2. I asked her if she could stretch my muscles.

Yes, it happened.

While the day was quite American, the supper was Italian or maybe better Italian-American.  With a lot of salad and (of course) spaghetti (yay, finally something I haven't eaten like 3 times before on this trip), and a strawberry-ish cheesecake (sooooo Italian) the supper was complete. The supper was super delicious, but it had a clearly American influence, just like every other foreign food here and other exchange students will know what I am talking about.

So if I would have to match this day with a song it would be “In Too Deep” by Sum 41. Simply because we were in L.A. so deep today, relaxed but still had amazing, funny, and foolish moments.

-- Max, Germany