I hate having to wait.

I got to the end of Libertine twice last night and once this morning. I’m just beastly at FFR.

Playing FFR reminds me of spring semester at UM. I miss it. It was a good two months.

I had an adventure today. I had to go find a building after class, and so I got out my map and started walking. Soon I came to an intersection where something like 8 roads came together. I became disoriented quickly and, because there were no street signs, I didn’t know which way to go. So I picked one that I thought was in the general right direction and went with it. As I was walking, I tried to find a street sign, but after not finding any, I looked at the position of the sun in the sky to figure out which direction I was going. As it turns out, I was going south when I had wanted to go east. So I turned left on the next street (with no street sign) and went with it. After a while, I came to a street name that I recognized from the map and thus figured out which street I was on. I kept walking and walking and walking… and I finally arrived at the building. There was a nice large kitty walking down the street near the building and I stop to pet it. He was a very nice cat, and he was the second cat I’ve seen wandering the streets of Freiburg. Then instead of retracing my confused steps, I kept walking east to the S-Bahn stop. But then I came to a street with no crosswalks or sidewalks. Hmm. I soon discovered that I had to go under the street in a little tunnel thing. And then I got on the S-Bahn and left.

I never realized before how much cheaper it is to buy food and make than it is to get premade food or food in a restaurant or a bakery or something. I can buy one sandwich for 2.60, and for the same price or less I can get enough food for more than 10 meals. It’s just crazy.

There are a few more pictures in my ImageStation photo album, if you care.

Manuel is cute from the back with no shirt on when he’s looking into the refrigerator. He briefly lost his keys this evening and then briefly freaked out. His friend constantly snaps his fingers and he was also making weird duckish noises tonight. Or maybe he was making the duckish noises with a door… I don’t know.

It’s really amazing how much better I can understand German now than before I came. I still have a lot of progress to make, but I’ve definitely already made some progress.

Oh! I got my first piece of mail today! Danke, Tina! I was excited. When I passed the Briefkasten, I noticed that my door was up a little. So I unlocked it, stuck my hand in, and there was a nice little postcard from Australia! Exciting. I read it on my way to the S-Bahn stop. I’m going to tape it up on my wall along with any other postcards that people want to send me (HINT, HINT).

This evening I made rice and Broetchen for dinner. Mmm, it was good.

My stupid function (fn) key is not functioning! It is very upsetting. I need it to do the letters with umlauts and to do the Euro sign and various other things. ARG! I don’t know what’s up with it.

In other news, I got to IM with Kevin (from UM), Ben, Jenny, Aaron, and Ryan tonight. It was quite fun.