It's been over a week. In that week I've felt all sorts of emotions. Some good, others bad. German culture isn't freakishly different to American, so there hasn't been a whole lot of culture shock (as I had anticipated) but time here seems to be moving slower. Like every day feels really long, and the weeks therefore even longer. As I talked earlier, it's also been very exhausting. But on to my week...
So I ended up only taking the short story seminar, but it was a mistake. The literature is just flat out too hard for me right now and it isn't engaging at all, sitting there. I would have moved to a different seminar, but I have to attend all 10 class periods to get my point, which I need for the credit transfer back to IU and I missed the first day of all the other seminars, obviously. So I'm stuck there for another week. At least it isn't an entire semester. That would have been a problem.
Speaking of the semester, I also have a rough schedule worked out for when normal college begins. If all goes as planned, I will only have classes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This is so exciting actually. It will be the first time in my whole life I didn't have school Monday through Friday. You have no idea how happy this makes me feel. I mean, German university classes typically only meet once a week, so that made that pretty easy, actually. The classes I'm interested in taking are a literature course taught at Uni Freiburg. I anticipate this to be the roughest, because this class is obviously for natives, and I am assuming it involves just lots of reading and I'm slow at reading German. But it'll really be good for my vocabulary I believe. (I don't think it'll be like this short story class, where it's freakishly hard texts. It's all works by the same author I believe) I am also then taking a German politics class, which I think would help me just to understand their whole government system better. Theirs is way more complex, it seems, then ours. I'm also going to be taking a couple more classes at SLI. A pronunciation class and something else, that I forget at the moment. Oops. There is also another class I'm going to take, but it has yet to actually be decided. I'm not sure.
This isn't much of an accomplishment, but I convinced two other Americans that I was German. I fessed up eventually. As in, when I started speaking English and didn't have an accent. But it was fun. When I would say something and they didn't understand, I would ask another IU student to act as a translator. :D I had way too much fun doing that. One said I didn't have German accent from around Freiburg and he thought I was from up north. Haha. Americans.
Another highlight of my week! I met up with a German who went to Jasper for a semester and we had coffee! We just sat and spoke German and it was fabulous. Also, tomorrow I'm meeting up with a couple of friends who were a part of the JHS exchange, from when I came here in summer 2011. Again, we're getting coffee. (As a coffee addict, Germany doesn't help ease me off of my addiction. No shame. No regrets.)
Well, that's all for now! I don't suspect anything new will be happening this coming week. I'm forward to next weekend, though. It means I'll done with that stupid short story class. That'll be a relief.
Till next time!
Taylor
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