The First Week

Guten Abend! I am nearly at the end of my first week of uni. Only five more to go :P. This week was mostly taken up with orientation and introductions to the course, so next week the work starts properly. By Monday I have to have prepared a short oral presentation on Fatih Akin and read a novel for my film and literature elective. So far I've had no homework for my language course, but that may be because not everyone has been able to get the textbook yet. Wednesday morning we met Frank, who is our teacher Wednesdays through Fridays, and he quizzed us to see how much we knew, so he could pick a textbook. After class a few of us went back to Schlossplatz, a journey which only takes five minutes by train, as opposed to the thirty minutes it took us by bus on Tuesday :P We went to the big bookstore there, but there was only one book left. I gots it! Yay me I found it first. Not that it matters, since we can't start using it until everyone has it :P

I've decided that Wednesday night is going to be noodle night. There's an awesome Asian noodle place down the street, and Marina has late classes to teach on Wednesdays. So me and my noodles have the place to ourselves. I know it's not very German, but I love stir fried things and I spend all day eating German bread from the bakeries around our building. Also, steamed vegetables are so boring, and that's the only way the Germans eat vegetables. Gah. The food here is really cheap! You can get a miscellaneous-sliced-meat and salad sandwich for a couple of euros, and coffee is less. We've already been spoiled, because we all hesitated to spend 2,50 euros on a cup of coffee at the overpriced tippy tower cafe :P Going home is going to be a slap in the face with all the overpriced foodthings.

I went shopping yesterday after I nabbed that textbook. It's way too hard to contemplate taking all my layers off in order to try things on, so I just eyeballed everything and impulse-bought. I spent waaaay too much monies, but I has some shiny new things now *glee* Going to stay away from the shops for a while...

Tomorrow I have an early day. We have German class like usual in the morning, but no electives in the afternoon. I have all afternoon off, so unless my classmates decide to go out and do something, I will be home and online at a reasonable Australian hour! All week I've been online after midnight your time, and it's a bit lonely and depressing :P I'll also be online all Saturday morning my time, before our excursion to Tübingen in the evening. If anyone wants to add me on skype my username is banananachips :P