Yesterday started off as a bad day but greatly improved! I got up terribley early to go to my appointment with my Erasmus English seminar co-ordinator. I knocked on her door and wait, no reply, I try the door, locked. So I hang about a little while and I see a teenie-tiny note on her door saying "Something in German but amounts to that she won't be in today". So off I go to an internet cafe to try sort out my courses, I've gotten 4 out of the 15, I need to take. Yes, 15. I think I need to talk about that to the Co-ordinator as there aren't 15 lectures that i can take.
Orientation was boring yesterday, I got to sit through 2 hours of German instructions on how to use a computer. But Iwaited as afterwards there was a tour of the city. Finally, it ended and I got talking to a nice girl called Anja.Who couldn't believe I was Irish and started laughing hysterically and told me to speak in Irish, which I did and She still wouldn't believe me as I didn't sound like I came from Kerry. Luckily enough, A man from Laois came over and asked a few questions and verified I was in fact from Ireland. Our city tour was in english, thank goodness.I met a girl from Scotland called Jude, again I met someone who has some sort of song reference to do with their name.
Our tour guide showed us a "good" Irish pub and told us that the Irish are crazy; "They have this big Greenand they wear hats". Then I'm called upon as the token Irish person.
Tour guide: You know of this Green party?
Me: eh...yes. are we talking politics?
Tour guide: HAHA you are so funny, you Irish. Do you wear hats at this Green party?
Me: The Irish are known to wear hats occassionally.
Tour guide: Oh you are too much, you Irish.
The group was greatly amused until the tour guide found out that the Green party was in fact called St.Patrick'sday; "that is not a funny name though" The tour ended in a pub where I asked for a small coke and got a 500ml tankard of coke at an extorionate price.Jude and I got on extremely well and we met a Swedish couple who also don't speak German so we got in Swimmingly!
On the tram home, a baby started making faces at me. He was adorable and I felt much obligied to make faces back and gestures. The mum asked me a question, and the baby answered all surrounding laughed. I still have no idea what was going on.
I went for my walk and looked up at the mountains. There was a black curtain cascading down the side of the Swartzwald. Then the Thunder came, then lightening. So putting two and two together I began to run as I was twenty minutes away from home. The black curtain came sweeping in with a black mist running through the trees.Just as I got to my door, there was a massive crash of lightening and thunder and the heavens opened.
The rain was torrential; I'm very glad I'm on the 6th floor as the bottom floor is bound to be flooded
Orientation was boring yesterday, I got to sit through 2 hours of German instructions on how to use a computer. But Iwaited as afterwards there was a tour of the city. Finally, it ended and I got talking to a nice girl called Anja.Who couldn't believe I was Irish and started laughing hysterically and told me to speak in Irish, which I did and She still wouldn't believe me as I didn't sound like I came from Kerry. Luckily enough, A man from Laois came over and asked a few questions and verified I was in fact from Ireland. Our city tour was in english, thank goodness.I met a girl from Scotland called Jude, again I met someone who has some sort of song reference to do with their name.
Our tour guide showed us a "good" Irish pub and told us that the Irish are crazy; "They have this big Greenand they wear hats". Then I'm called upon as the token Irish person.
Tour guide: You know of this Green party?
Me: eh...yes. are we talking politics?
Tour guide: HAHA you are so funny, you Irish. Do you wear hats at this Green party?
Me: The Irish are known to wear hats occassionally.
Tour guide: Oh you are too much, you Irish.
The group was greatly amused until the tour guide found out that the Green party was in fact called St.Patrick'sday; "that is not a funny name though" The tour ended in a pub where I asked for a small coke and got a 500ml tankard of coke at an extorionate price.Jude and I got on extremely well and we met a Swedish couple who also don't speak German so we got in Swimmingly!
On the tram home, a baby started making faces at me. He was adorable and I felt much obligied to make faces back and gestures. The mum asked me a question, and the baby answered all surrounding laughed. I still have no idea what was going on.
I went for my walk and looked up at the mountains. There was a black curtain cascading down the side of the Swartzwald. Then the Thunder came, then lightening. So putting two and two together I began to run as I was twenty minutes away from home. The black curtain came sweeping in with a black mist running through the trees.Just as I got to my door, there was a massive crash of lightening and thunder and the heavens opened.
The rain was torrential; I'm very glad I'm on the 6th floor as the bottom floor is bound to be flooded
2 comments:
kocked on the door did ya?... LOL nice typo
ha id have been so confused if the tour guide asked me about the green party!! Jeez he should do his research before telling everyone ireland is all about hats and green parties..
Haha! Come and kock on my door! Hope the rain cleared up and you're not on some Noahs ark type boat as means of survival, but of course as we all know, you wouldn't be let on, there is only 1 helen <3
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