Blogs from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe - page 51

Weds 15th February Ferry Dover to Dunkirk, "moderate to rough conditions ahead. Stay in your seats as much as possible." Quite a swell but gradually improved, must have missed the worst of it. Easy drive up to Ostend, arriving in daylight. Parked in the underground section of the Mijn Plein car park as Thursday is market day on the ground level. Collected Simon's keys from the ESP. Takeaway pizza for tea from a place at the end of Hertstraat. Very good but not so warm by the time we got it back to the apartment. Rory/Owen had figured out how to work the DVD player so we sat through 'Anger Management' starring Jack Nicholson and someone else. Apart from the scene featuring 'I feel pretty' on a NY bridge in rush hour I wouyld say don't ... read more

The semester is now over! Took my last exam today. And it went pretty well. It's such a good feeling to be done. My exam yesterday wasn't too bad either. Not the greatest, but I definetly passed. Things are coming to an end here really quickly. Last night I met with my referat group. The four of us met at one of the nearby bars to celebrate being done with our referat. Julia, Tina and Sabine are all very nice. It was fun to hang out with them for a few hours. It's too bad we didn't have to do our presentation earlier in the Semester. It would have been nice to have met them earlier and had time to hang out with them. Oh well.... that's the crummy thing about just being here for a ... read more

Sorry guys, I'm like bouncing off the walls with excitement. Just got back from my exam in my Introduction to International Relations and International Politics: .The Europeanization of national international, security and development politics. The oral exam was about 30 min. long, but I really wasn't that nervous. The first few questions that he asked me didn't even have to do with the class. They were about difference I've noticed between Universities in the US and Germany and what students expect. Also differences in the political culture between the two countries. After that he asked questions about the course.... most of which were questions on things that I didn't study. I studied the things that came up multiple times in class, thinking those would most likely be one's to come up. Nope... not really. Although I ... read more

Morning everyone, I've been meaning to write again, but somehow the time just keeps disappearing. So, I'm writing before class 'cause I know once I start working on things I'll run out of time again. The rest of my Christmas break was really nice. Mama and Papa came back from Spain in the evening of the 1st. They both had the day off on the 2nd, so we went to Essen in the afternoon. They had to exchange a jacket and I just went along for the ride. =) As we were leaving, we saw the movie theater and decided we'd see if anything good was playing. There was, but we had time for dinner first so we ate at New Orleans. hehe.. I had a Chicken Ceasar Salad... hadn't realized how much I had missed ... read more

yeah, so my day wasn't that bad, 'cause I decided I wasn't going to let it, but man did it sure start out pretty crummy. First class of the day (at 8:30 I might add) was my academic writing class which is a joke, but oh well.. Anyway, talked to the prof. and found out I probably won't be able to get credit for the class. The semester here doesn't end until the end of Feb. so I'll be missing a month of class which equates to like 4 or 5 class periods. The head of the DAF (German as a foriegn language) program said that's too much and I can't get graded for the class which means now credit. Every other department on this campus is willing to work with students knowing that the semester ... read more