another day in germany
I'm writing this entry per request of the lovely Miss Elizabeth Kinder who wanted to know what I do every day here in Freiburg. Described below is a typical weekday.
7:15 a.m.- Wake up to soothing Asian sounds that are not from Angus' cell phone, but rather my Chinese roommate's sweet alarm clock. Usually this is a difficult task and is immediately followed by coffee making.
8:00 a.m.- Walk to class. If I was too lazy to make a sandwich (or forgot to buy bread to make a sandwich on) then the walk is complemented with a stop at the bakery where I will usually buy a chocolate filled croissant.
8:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.- Class which can sometimes be very boring. When it's boring, I tend to think about things other than German. For example: I decided upon cool colors to paint my apartment the other day. Most of the time though, this is just 4 hours of German learning fun. Right.
1:00 p.m.- This time is usually filled with a mixture of different activities. After class I'll either go get lunch in the city or go back to the guesthouse and make something myself. Then, assuming the weather is good, I'll either go running or biking. If the weather is not good, I usually sit around and wait for it to get better. I also usually get gelato during this time. However, today I calculated how much I've spent on ice cream since I've been here and the amount is alarming. So, that activity might soon be getting cut out of my daily routine.
~7 p.m. - Dinner time. The first week or so everyone was really enthusiastic about cooking dinner but now we're all just lazy. There are a few places that we frequently go out to when we're too lazy to cook. 1) The Chicken Place- Yeah, they sell chickens, but usually everyone gets pizza or bratwurst there. 2) The Pasta Palace- from 6-730 every night you can get a whole pasta meal for 1 euro 90 cents! Or I'll just stay in and make a sandwich.
9:00 p.m.- Some nights we'll go out to a bar. Every Tuesday we go to a great place which I just recently found out used to be a morgue. I'm slightly turned off from it now, but will still continue to go because I can get drunk there for about 4 euros. Other nights we'll just hang around the guest house.
10:00 p.m.- Unfortunately, this is often when I start my homework.
12:00 a.m.- Bed time.
1 comments:
thank you so much for dedicating your blog entry to me! i have a perfect picture in my head of you sitting in your German classroom, eyed dazed, looking out of the window and dreaming about gelato, or new england, which i'm sure you miss! in august you really need to come and visit me :) i love you reading about your adventures!
i have been doing so much research recently about freiburg and germany, since my application deadlines are due in september and i really want to make the right choice about where to study. i'm getting cold feet about moving to germany for 7 months, especially given the fact that my last away-from-home -to-a-faraway-land trip was not so hot. my old dreams about going to italy are resurfacing...although your pics of the green freiburg-ian hills are very inticing! i read that from april-july freiburg gets 15 days of rain a month. das klingt nicht so gut zu mir.
keep having fun exploring the city and the rest of europe! and try not to eat so much bratwurst! i read the freiburg has some really good indian, italian, turkish, and chinese restaurants; try some and let me know! remember that you are my dear little guinea pig! (not that you remotly resemble one ;)
tchuess und herzlichen dank fuer deine Geschichte!
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