Orientation

Waking up this morning and saying it was brutal is an understatement. I got up and mozied to the showers and basically just stood in the shower staring and felt just so lost. Then getting to the orientation, they had told us to be there at 830 so i took the bus at 736 into town to get there early enough, had a delicious danish for breakfast at one of their many amazing bakeries, and then went to the building we were assigned to go too. I soon found out that classes aren't going to be all that comfortable in this classroom, because my legs were to long to fit into the desk normally so I have to sort of sit sideways in the chair which hits other people so there's gonna be a lot of awkward moments headed my way. We took the written test of figure out which section of german we would be placed in which um i mean i dont want to toot my own horn, but i pretty much nailed it. Then after we had to wait in line for an oral exam which they only had two teachers in rooms to give these tests and each person mustve taken like 8 or 9 min just to get through it and of course I was in the back of the line. When it was finally my turn they had the weirdest questions to ask me like one was "What are your opinions on onling dating" and also "Say your friend has a cold, what is your advice" which the first one i wouldnt even know what to say in english let alone german and the second seems very unrealistic, who needs advice on colds, they practically heal themselves. Then after that we split up into 2 groups one going to get the internet access set up and the other taking a city walk around. I was in the first group that go to get internet access and let me tell ya. I've never been so happy to see the internet signal on my laptop. I dont have any in my room which without it I only use my room to sleep and change. And right away i knew where to go, who to email/facebook and was just sending a bunch of emails all at the same time so someone knew i wasnt dead in deustchland. No one was online on facebook because even though it was 3 o clock where I was it was still 8 at home so that kind of sucked not being able to chat with anybody, but after we did all that they said it was time to go on our city trip where we went to the Oberstadt (pictures will be posted on facebook). The Oberstadt is seriously just a time machine back to the past. The roads are all cobblestone, the shops are hundreds of years old, but still in amazing condition! They had a comic book store, and restaurants, and even a gummy bear shop with tons of... you guessed it! Gummy bears, and i love gummy bears. Then we all went to a restaurant but just ordered some drinks before we all went down to die Milchbar (Milk Bar) which really is just a white room with some tables and chairs and NO MILK! Everyone in the program new and old were there and all the teachers too, and we all just went around the room saying where were from and why we came to marburg and all that jazz. There happens to be 5 people from wisconsin here! which was pretty unbelievable. There are also oddly like 10 people from penn state here also, one from Australia, one from korea, a couple from mexico, and then a bunch from the states. After that a bunch of people were gonna go out, but we found a good group and went back to the dorms to play some cards, because we had to get up again at 9 in the morning to set up our visas, so we figured we would go out and party up the town the next day. Which will be a whoooole nother story for my next post.

Tchuss!