Thursday, March 15, 2007
Again, Not Much Going On
Hello everyone! I figured I should keep updating even though not much has happened. The best news thus far is that I finally got my acceptance letter! Yay! Now I can apply for a temporary resident permit, and then apply for a bank account, and then I can pay my rent! Okay, I suppose that's way too much enthusiasm for rent paying. Anyway, I would have gone to get my permit today, but the office opens up a seven thirty and I was way too tired, which is weird because I went to bed really early. I know that I must not have slept well because I was sleeping so deeply at eight in morning that I had a dream between every snooze button hit. I remember one dream was about me walking to class while eating a Berliner (the cream puff pastry thing, not a person) that tasted like a jelly donut gone bad. Yes, you can most definitely see how interesting my life is right now. I'm reduced to talking about Berliner dreams.
Anyway, I gave my oral Referat today, which was wasn't too bad. I personally think I did quite horrible, but we'll see how it turns out. I'm not too freaked out about learning enough German anymore, because my professor told the class today, that if you relax and simply absorb the language, you'll learn a lot more than if you're stressed out. I probably should have known that without her telling me, though...
I also bought a book (in English) yesterday called Artemis Fowl, which I think is quite popular. I've been really enjoying it. I thought about buying a German copy of Harry Potter, but I wasn't even able to get through the first page without consulting my dictionary a lot. Oh, well. Maybe later in the semester.
Tomorrow, I'm going on an excursion to visit the French city of Strasbourg. I should probably be more excited about that, but the whole purpose of the trip is to see the EU parliament building, which doesn't sound exciting at all. Oh, well. I still think it will be cool to say I've been to France and we'll also get to spend a couple of hours looking at the old part of the city. That's one of the cool things about Freiburg. Its really cool to see at the Münster Cathedral, the medieval city wall, and other things from the Middle Ages. Not much of this survived though, because the city was virtually destroyed by bombs in World War II.
Anyway, I think that's all for now. Please keep updating your blogs ::cough, (Kristen), cough::, I love reading them!
...I think I've run out of ways to say ''Good-bye'' in German.
Anyway, I gave my oral Referat today, which was wasn't too bad. I personally think I did quite horrible, but we'll see how it turns out. I'm not too freaked out about learning enough German anymore, because my professor told the class today, that if you relax and simply absorb the language, you'll learn a lot more than if you're stressed out. I probably should have known that without her telling me, though...
I also bought a book (in English) yesterday called Artemis Fowl, which I think is quite popular. I've been really enjoying it. I thought about buying a German copy of Harry Potter, but I wasn't even able to get through the first page without consulting my dictionary a lot. Oh, well. Maybe later in the semester.
Tomorrow, I'm going on an excursion to visit the French city of Strasbourg. I should probably be more excited about that, but the whole purpose of the trip is to see the EU parliament building, which doesn't sound exciting at all. Oh, well. I still think it will be cool to say I've been to France and we'll also get to spend a couple of hours looking at the old part of the city. That's one of the cool things about Freiburg. Its really cool to see at the Münster Cathedral, the medieval city wall, and other things from the Middle Ages. Not much of this survived though, because the city was virtually destroyed by bombs in World War II.
Anyway, I think that's all for now. Please keep updating your blogs ::cough, (Kristen), cough::, I love reading them!
...I think I've run out of ways to say ''Good-bye'' in German.
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