Hedgehog hunting and the perks of foreign friends.

Germany is wonderful this time of year. The fall is rather tame, but I am really enjoying the warm (sometimes hot) days. Today I didn't wake up until noon, in an embarrassing way of catching up on sleep from two days ago. I hate sleeping away the morning and twelve hours of sleep generally makes me more tired. So I woke up and decided to go on another hike after I had eaten breakfast/lunch but wanted to stop by and say hi to O and tell him about Hamburg. He's always busy so he was a little annoyed that I stopped by, but I didn't stay long. I was going to leave right from there, but had forgotten both my watch, and to put deodorant on, so I stopped back in my room, and it was so dark and cool, that I just couldn't leave again. I ended up finishing "The Princess Bride" and taking a nap. Well, I was actually going to leave to go on a hike, but as I was on my way, I noticed my friend B was in his room (ground floor, I'm a creep) so I went and talked to him for a while. I ended up crawling through his window to sit for a while, and while I was there, I changed my mind about hiking and decided to go ask J if he wanted to go walk around Bielefeld with me. In short, no we didn't walk around, but we hung out for a while and he made pizza and it was pretty good. Apparently it's pretty common for Spaniard and Portuguese men to cook, which seems pretty rare back in the states. Ah, it was a good time, just sitting and talk to him while he made pizza with his roommate, and I was really thankful that they asked me to stay and eat with them.
I learned just yesterday that there are Hedgehogs in Germany. I knew they roamed free somewhere, but it never occurred to me that that somewhere may very well be where I am currently residing. KK told me she saw one while running one night, and I brought it up to B who said he had seen one the other night too, not running, but apparently staggering back, so who can trust that? I've been so excited about it for the past few days telling everyone, even those who knew that they were out and about here, and asked advice as to where to find one. Well, lucky, lucky me, on my first search of the cute little things, I found one! As I was on my way back from J's, I walked slowly, through the darkest paths. I found one right outside my building! It was so big, compared to ones we see in the pet stores! I was so excited, I watched it for a while, and sprinted up to my room to get some cabbage to feed him and came back down, he had only moved a few feet and I tried feeding him, but he didn't take it. I'll go back and check tomorrow if it's still there (the cabbage), but I have completed my current list of things to see in Germany (animal-wise).