Internet is a necessity.

I think I heard my suitemate early this morning. I need to get more sleep… I’m so tired. Later in the morning, he came out and we talked some. He seems really nice and his name is Manuel.

Today was a busy day. First were more lectures about stuff like banking and internet. Then we had lunch (incredibly good tortellini), took a tour of the AYF office (all 5 rooms), and paid our rent for the month. Yip…ee. After paying the rent, a girl and I went to a department store. On the way there, we saw a weird clown/mime thing. He was making high pitched noises and had a sign that said something like ‘functioniert nur mit Euro’. After that, we kept looking, but couldn’t find it, so I asked an old man passing by where it was because the other girl was a bit scared to ask someone. We ended up talking to him for a little while. On the way back to the dorm, we talked to some guy who got on the S-Bahn with mice about his mice. They looked more like rats to me… and the mother rat bites.

Later in the day, those of us in StuSie had to pick up our modems. But it was timed such that we had basically no time to get ready for the formal thing that was happening later in the evening. A bunch of us from StuSie met at the usual meeting spot and went out to a restaurant called Greifenegg-Schlößle. It was a really nice place, and the owner was putting it on for us because he had been an exchange student in Madison. It was on a hill, so we could see most of Freiburg and also the hills and mountains in the distance. The mountains to the west were in France. When we first walked in, they handed us each a glass of wine. So that was my first drink in Germany. It was kind of weird to stand around with wine. Also while I was there, I had a nice talk with a guy named Derrick. He had seen the TFK shirt that I had worn yesterday and said something about it. I also talked to an old lady who had been born in Freiburg many years ago and was in Freiburg when they bombed it in WWII.

Stephen (from MSU) and I left at the same time and walked to the Oberlinden S-Bahn stop. We had to wait for a while, so we talked about anything and everything. Back at the dorm, I tried to set up my modem, and I think I did it right, but it says limited or no connectivity. Then when I try to repair it, it says it can’t renew my IP address. It’s quite upsetting. AND my wireless network had disappeared… so I just have no luck at this moment.


the mime/clown thing