Drei Tage

So, it's been three days since I've written anything for this blog. So the last thing I wrote about was the Night of the Not-Crepes, which was quite the adventure and quite the hilarious night. But I think Wednesday might just have it beat. I had class in the morning, well until 12:45, then we got lunch at the Mensa. These lasst days have been busy so my memory isn't too clear on the details. Sara and I went to Markthalle for dinner, where we got delicious Indian food. Markthalle was recommended to us by our wonderfully helpful and enthusiastic bank teller from Tuesday. It's very similar to Fanuel Hall, with stands of foods from all over, plenty of bars, and such. It's a pretty awesome place. Emily eventually came and joined us. [Blog edited for PG-13 Rating.] Sara bought the correct form of flour too on Wednesday, so when we got back to her dorm she decided to make Emily and me real crepes, which turned out pretty damn well. It was quite the day.

Thursday wasn't quite as exciting as Wednesday, mainly because Sara had to work on an essay -for an internship at the State Department she was applying for. We had class in the morning, as usual, and most of the UMass kids met at the mensa for lunch. After that, Sara and I headed back to the classrooms to make use of the free wifi. She worked on her essay while I got in some much-needed internet usage. Emily joined us after she did whatever she needed to do. Eventually, we decided to go out for dinner, which ended up shopping for a little while, with the three of us grabbing food in a bakery, where I got a delicious cheese-covered pretzel. Emily ditched us to go hang out with friends from her German language course, so Sara and I headed back to Markthalle for a drink with our meals. We grabbed a beer from a bar in there, where Sara got very angry when the bartender asked "Bist-du sechtzehn?" and Sara got very angry and responded with "Ich bin zwanzig!" The bartender forgot to charge her for her bier, too. The bier ended up being awful, but we got some chicken wings from a Mexican stand and finished the bier with those.

Sara and I returned to the school so that she could finish her essay and submit her documents, where we found out we were locked out of the classroom, where Sara had left a few books. It wasn't a big deal. She was nearly finished with everything she had to do when a very annoyed janitor came up to us, at 22:00, and told us that we had to leave and proceeded to stand there, waiting for us to leave. Sara packed up and we headed out, only to stop outside where Sara stayed close to the building and used the Wifi to finish sending her forms and finished her application. It was a good thing too, because she was going to finish it at the StusieBar, since it was due that night, but it turns out the StusieBar is closed on Thursdays. We went back to Sara's kitchen and had an interesting discussion about politics, DeGrassi, and other stuff. It was a good night, even if it was a little more work-oriented than Wednesday was.

Today has been pretty fun, too. We had classes, of course, and most of the normal group met at the Mensa, minus Sara. We had received emails from Silke saying that we had to attend Sprachlabor, so Emily, Catherine, Jess, and I went to the Korzburo to figure out what to do for it, where a lady told us which classroom to go to. Emily and I went to the Sprachlabor and did the required work and the rest of our homework, so thankfully we're set for the rest of the weekend. After that, Emily went to nap, I went shopping and bumped into Sara, who was doing the same thing. We went shopping for basic supplies at the cheap Euro store we finally found, then went back to the school to make use of their wonderful internet. We're at the StusieBar now, planning a trip to Basel tomorrow and we may be seeing Alice and Wonderland tonight. That's the plan for now. We'll see how it goes!

Here's some pictures from the first week so far.


It's the hallway where our classrooms are!



A neat church near the Hauptbahnhof (Train Station)