Forms and Functions

1/6/11
I didn't update yesterday for a couple reasons. I was completely zonked, and ready to do absolutely nothing for the evening. We gathered as a group yesterday for the first time, in one of the few lecture halls that Freie Universität has, and essentially filled out forms for the whole day. We took a break, and ate at the Mensa, which is the school's cafeteria. It's really great food, and it's highly subsidized, so a large meal there is inexpensive. Though, when I went up to buy my food the woman who rang me up asked me something about the salad I made very quickly in German. I was not prepared for this, so I did that thing where you just smile and nod. The man behind me was clearly displeased, and gave an audible huff, and the woman just totaled the order, and I guess I paid less than I should have...

After a long day, a few of us went to the mall and bought "surf sticks" for the internet. Picture 15 Americans walking into a store demanding internet sticks in broken German. It was presh. 2 hours later (because we travel as a pack) we came home. I was at the point where I thought I would be willing to murder someone to have 10 minutes of uninterrupted interwebz (addiction?). I popped my one frozen pizza into the oven and prayed that the internet stick wouldn't give me any problems. Thankfully a monkey could have set it up, so I was on the internet in no time.

1/7/11
Well today was our walking tour of campus. I found out that there is an entirely vegetarian Mensa, which I was really happy about. We also took a tour of a defunct bunker (the ONE day I decided it wouldn't be worth it to bring my camera!). It was interesting for 10 minutes before I realized the entire thing was filled with mold, and had an allergy attack...Whatever.

Anyway, tonight I'm going out with the program to a Turkish restaurant. I guess they need to socialize us. I was supposed to be in the group that went last night, but I ended up passing out at 10 last night!

If anyone is interested, here is a 20 minute video about my program. I watched it, it's pretty good. http://vimeo.com/10228827. Also, I'm finally attaching one of the pictures I took, but I'm not going to write about it yet.