24th-27th Of November

Hey there! All good here mainly because I've been counting the days until I come home!!! I'm beyond excited!

Monday: was a busy day as I received an email from my lecturer changing my presentation so I needed to catch up on what she wanted! So I worked away on that and made mushroom soup which is now if the freezer (just a pointless fact for you). Choir went well but our crazy voice warmer was there (as per usual). I think he has reached his full quota of crazy now as he decided a good way to warm our voices would be to bend your knees, hang your arms and bounce, so you look like a monkey. I was not on for this so I watched and then he made everyone go "ooh ooh ooh", yes just like a monkey. He is a new kind of crazy!


Tuesday: as ever was very good. I met up with Claudia (I dunno if you know her) but she was the girl I met in Dublin who I was emailing as she is a student in Freiburg and she was giving me information on the college and we didn't know that the person we were emailing, we sat beside in linguistics class. So that was pretty awesome as we were friends already! Anyway, slight deregression there. We met up for lunch anyway. German food is still weird, I mean I will give them a lot of credit for some of the stuff they produce but half the time I poke my food to make sure whatever on my plate is dead. As I still can't read much German (we learnt the colours in class) it's always a surprise what I get. Claudia is well but has a weird thing on her leg that there is no known cure for so doctors are having great fun trying new things out on her! She's not as amused as they are. After German class, a few of us went to the Christmas market for ginger bread and Gluhewein, Gluhewein (I have learnt) is not my favourite thing in the world but this was relatively alright! And I got a free cup (glass and a picture on it) which I will give to my family as a Christmas present and pretend I bought it. (I understand that they follow this blog but the truth will come out at one point anyway).


Wednesday: Today I had my presentation which my lecturer changed yet again on the actual day! And she wanted a very strict speech according to her points so I read off the sheet word for word and did not divert! It went fine, I doubt any listens to any of these presentations. In my feedback, she said I need to stop reading the sheet and to divert from the main points she made. I think she is schizophrenic as sticking to the main points and not diverting on pain of death was quite clear in the emails she sent. Oh well. We went to a photography musuem in my next lecture but the most exciting thing that I learnt was my friend (who looks like a lion, from bavaria, very hairy, wears massive jumpers) is an MC and raps in German and he invited me to his gig next week! This is something I cannot miss! He looks like he carries a banjo hidden in his jumper! I am excited.


But tonight was my German birthday! So I invited everyone I knew well enough to invite into my home for drinks and then we'd head to the bar next to my house (as it was 50c shot night...and a bad idea). Jude came over early and we decorated with Christmas decorations Mum sent me. It started off rough as there were three people who were on time and they were the shy ones so they did not want to talk to anyone at all! But the ice broke after a few of the chattier ones came! We had quite an international party; Ian, Christie and Kaelyn (American), Stefan and Adrian (Germans), Fidel (Mexican), Howard (English), Jude (Scottish), Heibar (Afghanistani), Ola and Brita (Swedish), Paolo and Carlo (Italien), Claryce (Sinaporean) and last but not least Irina (Romanian). We petrified the Germans..It was wonderful! It was really lively and good craic. At about 12, about half the people left as they didn't have their bikes with them and had to get the last tram back. Carlo refused to go but he was literally dragged out. Carlo is famous for saying "Anti-sex" which means a girl has no sex appeal and I live on the Sixth floor (sechs = zex) so he was thrilled and make anti-sex jokes about every piece of furniture in the floor! Then the rest of us went out to Stusie, we lost everyone, found everyone, lost them again and got back in at 4. So a good night! I'm sure there's incriminating photos somewhere but I didn't have my camera

Thursday: Wednesday has left quite a mark and a bruise on my arm. So I took the day quite slowly and stayed in bed where it's safe after Jude left. Then I headed out and got a few more Christmas presents. Had class at 4 and German class was cancelled! YAY! The Italians tried getting me to come to the pub but I ran! I packed and made myself a packed lunch for my journey tomorrow! I can't wait to go home! And eat my packed lunch! I did a pretty good job! I gave Ian Pharoah for the weekend. Ian is slowly understanding my madness which is good, I also bribed him with eggs that are going off on Saturday. I'm listening to Leonard Cohen and I feel like Mum. The only reason I feel like Mum is because Leonard Cohen is playing...Still.


I'M GOING HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!