Another day of class, so not a whole lot of exciting things to say. In fact I'm sure after this week these daily posts will either be non existent or even more boring! But anyway, so yeah we had class this morning - still doing stuff I've done, but I'm optimistic that some new stuff is coming soon. Still getting up early, which I have decided is probably a good habit to try and keep going, as its a good time to Skype, do homework, and just generally get a few things done. Oh yeah, so if you're reading this, 2:30/3pm Australian time is generally a good time to catch me on Skype :)
Also went to check out this language lab thing this arvo - I have to do 22.5 hours there to get 1 ECTS credit, which I was thinking would be rather painful after the confusing introduction. But I discovered the hours still count if I just borrow a book and sit at a desk and do my homework, which is great! I do homework I already needed to do, and get credit for the time I spend doing it :) So yeah, did 3 hours today - only 19.5 left to go...
Then had some friends round for dinner - should just quickly mention them I guess, since I have just been referring to them as 'my friends'. The people I am generally referring to when I say this is Rebecca, Jenna, Katie and Karl. We kind of formed a little English speaking group - Rebecca and Karl are from Canada, Katie is from America and Jenna from Scotland (Dundee in fact!). Something which is probably not so great for my German, but is really interesting. Never realised exactly how many different words and such we have between English dialects! It's also a lot easier to organise things together lol. Have made friends with some other people too, including an Italian girl Cecelia who lives in the building next to me, and then Cybele, Efie and Olga who are from France, Greece and Poland respectively and are in my class. But we mostly just hang out around class time.
Anyways, onto the main topic the title of this post suggests - Essen!
Have been going to the Mensa for lunch - one place we haven't yet taken photos! It's pretty much just the student cafeteria, with good pricing on food, that is actually quite tasty. Though it can be a gamble sometimes as to what it is, with all the signage being in German. For example had something that I thought looked like a piece of oven fried fish or maybe a potato patty, that turned out to be some kind of crumbed cooked cheese. Have been trying to also take food with me - mostly containers of fruit, cos its so cheap and varied, I guess cos its summer at the moment.
But every time I go to the supermarket there are fifty million things I see that I just have to try! Especially in the chocolate and yoghurt sections. You may not recognise me when I get back, if I do try everything I want to lol. The bigger the supermarket the worse it is, and the fact that I still can't get over how much cheaper everything is over here definitely doesn't help either! James, I'll have to buy a bunch of stuff for Mum and Dad to take back for you! My fridge is quite full at the moment - the main reason I have as yet been able to resist the temptation to buy more food! I only have a small shelf, so its quickly been filled up with yoghurt, fruit and dinner leftovers mainly. Tonight we made burritos (not so German, but delicious and also something Jenna had never had!) and spaetzle, which was also delicious! It's just like egg-ish noodles, cooked in a pan with this weird bacon-y stuff, onion, and cheese. We also consumed the only cider we've been able to find so far, which is a super light supermarket brand. Then we went to the ice-cream cafe across the road, where the scoops are 80c each (!).
But away (briefly) from the topic of food, went to the movies last night, which was an experience. The movie was in English, but they have a pre-movie 'show', somewhat like Saturday Disney or Video Hits with the host who just randomly talks or maybe does a weird skit in between shows/videos, only his was between ads and trailers. And it was of course all in German, including the trailers, which was interesting. Probably the best though was the Ben & Jerry's ad, in which the voiceover was German spoken with a ridiculously obvious American accent - it was hilarious! Then after, went and got hot chocolate while waiting for the last tram to come at 12:27am.
Tomorrow am planning on going to the Titisee - a lake not too far away, that I think is supposed to be the largest natural lake in Germany or something? Regardless, I know it will at least be a relaxed train ride with beautiful green landscapes to gaze upon, so worth going on. But hopefully if its hot enough tomorrow we'll be able to go swimming there :) It was so hot when I first got here, but the past few days its been a bit cooler and also a bit rainy.
And finally, briefly back to the topic of food, what I miss most is rice crackers! Apparently they don't have those here, and I finished my final ration of the ones I brought with me from Australia today :( Might need to instruct for some rice crackers to find their way into mum or dad's bag before they leave! Those and cider, which is super hard to find here. Although I also learnt to my surprise that Minties are apparently an Australian thing, as are Kool Fruits?? That, and no one seems to use capsicum outside of Australia...
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