April 23rd - Stusie apartment
Classes at the university started on Monday. Mine didn't start up until tuesday. We took our placement test Tuesday morning then I had two more classes at the SLI. Later that day we had our second Taco tuesday, which was even better than the first.
Yesterday I was supposed to have lecture course, but that only lasted about 5 minutes before the student helper finished his short spiel and dismissed everyone for the day. Just as I got home I recieved a message from a German wanting to interview freshman students. I headed back into town (I was really wanting to speak German that day) and spoke with her for a very short time. Then I went to get my much needed wall decorations. Joanne and I sat on her balcony and studied for a while. One of her roommates had never had long hair before, so she asked for Joanne's help in styling her hair. It was really rather adorable I must say.
Joanne and I also found out that we were placed in group 2 out of 3. Needless to say we both threw a little hissy fit, but we should be able to switch out of the class.
Today was nice. I have the same professor for two of my classes on the EU. Apparently we are going to Straussberg to visit the EU building and interview the officials. Not sure what else to do for today though.
Might do some grilling tomorrow.
Monday May 18th - on the train back to Freiburg from Vienna
Again, I have been doing a pretty poor job of keeping my journalling up to date. I really do not know what I should write down from what I remember. A lot of what I have been doing is mostly school or friends related.
Our teacher for our German language course has been giving a few of us more challenging homework assignments, which is nice. The normal ones are just too simple and easy to ignore or neglect.
I have already completed one of the four Referats for this semester. Tomorrow I will have two out of the way.
I bought a better quality grill to use on sunny days out by the lake. So far it has proven to be a great investment. Last time we used it, we brought it up to Joannes apartment balcony (defiantly against the rules). I even found some marshmallows along with a few other interesting items in the American section of a huge German department store.
The nice pad case and keyboard I bought back in the US broke. That was a pretty rough day for me... Now I have a new German keyboard, but of course my tablet cannot seem to function properly with the different keyboard layout. So a good deal of the time I have to avoid apostrophizes and just guess at which keys are which.
It seems everyone's significant other has been visiting recently. Jirkas boyfriend as well as Mike and Alex's girlfriends have been around. It is nice to see a few more new faces, even if they cant speak German.
