Blogs from Hamburg, Germany, Europe - page 27

Tonight we had, what we now call, International food night. Everyone made something from their own country and we all ate... alot. We had American, Italian, Chinese, and French Wine. Potatoes with horseradish (Bryan found out Pferd was not in the name of the spice.. haha), Bruschetta, Sloppy Joes, Dumplings, apple pie.. and then of course the French wine. Very nice. We all had a lot of fun cooking (and eating) together and actually, they are all still out in the living room talking and drinking. I, on the other hand, am cursed with a conscience and must study for my B1 Abschlusspruefung which is on Friday. I'm really glad it is this week though, because Joe and I are going to Bremen this weekend and the last thing I want to think about is an ... read more

Ooook so I'm not a big fan of valentines day. But it wasn't bad, at all! This morning I reluctantly rolled out of bed, went to class, and that was boring as usual. I was so bored, I guess it showed because the sub kept grilling me, and I was never paying attention, so that made class ultra interesting. Its stuff I learned last year... so I just zoned out. Then, the next teacher came in, and gave us a worksheet on simple past tense. We had to form 20 sentences with the info provided, and use the simple past tense of the verb. Are we kidding?? I've only been doing this every single semester since I came to URI.. and it was frustrating because everyone else was having so much trouble, even forming simple sentences, ... read more

So by now, I am hearing "Zurueck bleiben bitte" in my sleep, as I'm sure many Germans do. For those who don't know, this recording plays on the UBahn right before the doors close. It means, "Stay back, please" so some stupid person doesnt go and get himself stuck in the doors when they close.. i dont know. In other news... well, nothing really new. I stayed in last night and studied for awhile, watched a movie, then went to bed. For dinner, I tried Kartoffelnsuppe from a can... and it was actually pretty good! Gonna have to stock up. I did, however, eat the whole can, and that I know CANT be good. This was my first semi-German meal since I've been here.. its sad! School was alot better yesterday. This is because we had ... read more

Tonight will be an early night. I went to class this morning as usual, then straight home to go to campus and print out my important documents for the insurance people and the Einwohnermeldeamt. The print shop was sooo hard to find, but ended up right next door to the main building... I went nuts for nothing. I got there and had no problem printing everything I needed, then went back to the dorm to fill out the forms and take a quick nap. This didnt last long. About 15 mins after I laid down, Stephen (our buddy) called and said he got out of work early and he was on his way to come get Bryan, Mike and myself to go get our paperwork done. We first went to the Einwohnermeldeamt to get our forms ... read more

So today was good as usual. I had a bit of a crisis with money, finding out the bank was charging me for pretty much every move I made. I am trying so hard to be good with my money, since I don't have all that much of it, especially with the reeeeally bad exchange rate. Last night after I posted, Joe called and said he was on his way over to my neck of the woods to go to O2( cell phone service place) to get his new SIM card. I met up with him over there, and we had some interesting debates with some Indian- looking germans about George Bush.. not cool. We wanted to say sooo much but didnt... because apparently our president is the biggest terrorist of all... yeeeeea. He was sooo ... read more