Just Smile and Nod...

Ok, seriously, this day started in about the worst way possible. I had set my alarm for 10 a.m. because we were all supposed to meet at 1 for a tour of the city. Well, I woke up, looked at my clock, and it said 1:06 p.m. Great. Not only had I just slept for 14 hours, but I was completely late for the thing. In a few minutes, I managed to get out the door, but I was too flustered to make sense of the map, so I asked some random guy how to get there. He said he was going the same way and we could go together. He told me where to get off and realized that I don’t speak German very well (of course). I got to the Stadttheater and no one was there. By that time, I was parched and desperately needed a drink. So I walked to the Hauptbahnhof (the train station) where I knew there would be stuff open (almost everything is closed on Sunday). I tightened the laces on my shoes because they were rubbing horribly on my small toes, and then bought an Erdbeere slushy thing. Thinking that maybe the people would come back to the original meeting place, I went back there and sat for a while, sipping my slushy. After a while, I saw some people across the street that looked like AYF people and so I walked over there. They recognized me and I joined up with them. Octavian was leading the group. He’s really nice and he’s from Romania. They walked around a little more and then stopped to eat at an Italian place. Then I went back to my room, which definitely isn’t home yet.

I think when I get used to everyone speaking German, then I’ll be more comfortable.

There are pigeons everywhere. The pigeons here are like the squirrels in Ann Arbor.

This evening I was trying out my alarm clock and it didn’t work again, so I got mad at it and slapped it… and it started working. Nice. Hopefully it works for tomorrow.

There are some really annoying stupid flies in my room. I want to kill them.


The view from my window.