New Family and Movies in German :D

Today I went to my first movie in Germany! It is the day after my fourth month in Germany, and everything is going great, as my repetitive, cliche, update always states. :D I am now living with my second host family, Familie Huesmann, in Lingen! I live about a kilometer away from the city Marktplatz, where all the good stuff happens (shops, food, bars). I've been living here since the 2nd of December, so just about 9 days in total. I love the Huesmann's! They are really normal people. We are still in that always awkward host parent/student bonding stage, where you are still getting to know them and they are trying to get to know me...It's weird when you think about having a stranger living in your home and vice versa. It is getting better, we are keeping busy together, and the weekends allow us to spend time together, so it is definitely nice. I met my younger host brother, Alexander, yesterday at 11 o clock in the night, when he called the house and asked me to pick him up from the Bahnhof. I was a bit nervous of course, mainly because I felt that I would somehow say something stupid or make myself look like an idiot..but that wasn't the case! We immediately hit it off (He spoke very good English as he spent a year in Canada a year before) and took our bikes to Burger King here in Lingen to grab some grub. If there is any way to bond with someone, it is riding your bike at midnight to get burgers. We rode back, decided to watch a movie and drink beer, 28 Days Later! It was good, lights off, zombie flick gets the heart pumpin' no doubt. We ended up going to sleep at around 3, waking up for breakfast at 11 the morning after. Today, the 11th, I saw my first movie in Germany (as it attractively states in the first sentence ;D), and it was.. interesting! :O It's so much different from movie theaters in America! For one, when you buy the ticket, you get assigned seats, they sit you from the top going down, you can't even choose your seats! (Get stuck next to a fat guy? Buff it out ;)). The concession stand works as a concession stand just like in USA, but also works as a bar. :O That's right. With your movie, you could order a Tequila Sunrise, or a Sex on the Beach. It was the strangest thing to see, a social lounge, full with alcoholic beverages of your choice, people smoking, all combined with the line where you buy your popcorn. Strange? A little yes. We get into the massive 238 seat movie theater, where there are no cupholders, but one long table that goes along the whole row. You have your own personal table (well not so personal, but still felt like an office for me :D). I set my things down, popcorn (WHICH IS ONLY SWEET IN GERMANY, GIBT'S KEIN SALZIG POPCORN!), and cola.. and sat in the comfortable red seats waiting for the movie to start. One of Alex's friends came by and we met and sat next to each other, shared a few jokes, laughs (I was probably saying something stupid to be funny. LAME) and watched through the German Kino commercials. Previews, Commercials through we finally got to watching our movie, Time IN. Starring Justin Timberlake, some chick with short hair, and that guy who was in The Mask (love that movie..). Movie lasted 2 hours, rode our bikes the 500 meters back home from the kino, and here I am writing this now. This was an awesome experience to have, as I will remember the day I went to a German kino for the first time, and watched a movie only in German, next to these German friends I just met, eating sweet popcorn, wondering why the fat guy next to me smells really bad, and having my own personal office table in front of me. Life is good.