Ok so I made it through my first school week here. And let me tell you, it was exhausting. That one class that I had to go to... whew! Haaaaaaa... I'm funny. No, really, it's been pretty good not having to go to class or work or orientation all the time. I mean, I don't know what to do with all my free time, but it's ok.
On Thursday I had my first class - Wirtschaftsdeutsch Level 4(b), aka business german. It's my only class that's in german, but that's ok because it's a foreign language course. Yay for taking a foreign language course in the country that the foreign language is spoken in! *Once again* I am the only American in the class of around 30. I really don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Angelique and Eva from the orientation business course and Diogo from my floor at Erasmus (we often cook at the same time) are all in my class. It was a three hour class, with no breaks, so that seemed like eternity. But it also seemed alright. I'll be ok.
Friday, I finally took the leap and bought a microphone headset for my computer so I can use skype. I talked to Amy and my mom during their lunches, and on Saturday I talked to my Dad for an hour during the OU game (insert sad face here), and I called Jason too. Sunday I got to talk to Odile and Hannah. I love being able to talk to people! It helps me to not feel like I'm half a world from everything and everyone I know.
Saturday was the big event Die Lange Nacht der Museen, or The Long Night of Museums. You just had to buy one ticket to a museum in the city, and then there were like 50 other museums you could go to for free using that one ticket. I went with Angelique and we met with some of her french friends. They all just spoke french in front of me, which made me think I should be trying to learn french here instead of german. The museums themselves weren't that great, and Angelique and I separated from her friends and went off trying to find a good museum. Too bad we ended up getting lost and it took us like 30 minutes to get back to where we had started. I mean, we had ended up at the Foltermuseum (Torture museum!) - AS IF! No way. After a while we gave up on museums, and ended up taking goofy pictures at the Stephansdom and Rathaus (which looked AWESOME at night).
The most interesting thing that happened to me today was when Alison (from across the hall) and I almost burned down the dorm. Alison had decided she wanted to make wienerschnitzel and potato salad, and asked if I wanted to help and split it. We started off pretty well, with the help of Will, and made two lovely schnitzel. Then, between the second and the third, the pot caught on fire. One second nothing. The next second WHOOSH - a huge fire. Of course Alison and I freaked out, not having a clue what to do. Will wasn't there with us, but this other guy was there, and he poured water in, despite our protests about mixing burning oil and water. Luckily for us, the fire went out. However, the formerly red pot was now black, both inside and out, and thoroughly destroyed. The smoke was so thick we had to stand in the hall or at the window for like 10 minutes and could barely see through the room. Somehow, though, the fire alarm didn't go off. All of the tables and the floor had a thin layer of ash. It was like a mini volcano! Alison and I laughed about it the whole rest of the time we were cooking. The funniest part was that the pot wasn't ours, but Will went to buy a new one and just replaced it. I hope the guy whose pot it is notices something weird, and is really confused.
But the food was good! Totally worth almost burnin' down the Haus.
Die Lange Nacht pictures here.
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