After reading some of the other posts, I feel a theme coming on: getting lost or left behind on the transportation system. I was actually doing quite well at first. I had yet to be late to a class or meeting time and I thought I had finally deciphered the time tables that I religiously keep in my jacket pocket. That all changed yesterday. I have two bus stops near my house which arrive about 20 minutes apart. I left my house with ample time to reach the stop before the bus arrived and waited. Then I waited some more. Then, guess what, I waited some more. I managed to ask someone on the street in German when the bus would come and apparently it wasn't coming for another hour. I ran to the other stop just in time to see the bus take off down the street without me. I went back to the other stop and waited the time until the other bus came, but by that point I was at least 20 minutes late to the welcome dinner. Luckily the event hadn't fully started by the time I arrived but it was still a nervewracking experience.
Despite my misadventures with the bus and my laptop going kaput the minute I arrived in Germany, I am actually really enjoying myself. I am learning more German each day and am finally getting the hang of typing on the German keyboard that came with the netbook I purchased to replace my dead computer. I think I might be become addicted to Berliners though (No, not people from Berlin, but these delicious, jelly-filled pieces of heaven that are a bit like doughnuts). They have jelly in them, so I can pretend they aren't that bad for me right?
<Group picture in the classroom (minus me since I was taking it)>
Anyways, there is always more fun to be had, even on a rainy day like today, so Tchüß for now!
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