Week Catch Up

After a crazy fun-filled post about last week, and then my downer post about how bad my week started, I thought I would post now in a more neutral mood.

The rest of my week went by alright. Wednesday we were asked to skip class to go to Reutlingen on behalf of Valpo and their relationship with Reutlingen. It was rainy, and kind of a miserable day. After the "ceremony", which was a bunch of speeches just going around the room one by one, we were handed goody bags and then went to wander a bit through Reutlingen. We didn't stay long however, because the weather was so bad, and I did have class later in the evening with Hannah, who, along with Zach, did not go to Reutlingen, because they had class. My class Wednesday night was a "Vorlesung"/lecture about 17th Century Literature. The professor was easy enough to follow (as it is in English!!) and he was very welcoming to us foreign students

I spent Thursday primarily in my room relaxing, and being miserable due to the combination of my cold, and being out in the rain all day. I had an English poetry class later that night. When I went to class, I found that I was the only exchange student in it, and was very embarrassed to speak in class, because you could immediately tell that I was not a German. The professor was very nice and let me know that to earn a grade to take home to Valpo, I could:

1) Take the 20 minute speaking test at the end of the semester

2) Write the 15-20 page paper

3) Take a smaller test and write the paper

4) Write a smaller test and write the paper

5) Write part of the paper and take part of the test....

She was really nice and very accommodating to what my University might need. I don't anticipate too many problems from that class, which is a relief.

After class, I went back to my room to Skype, and everyone else came to my room too, because they were supposed to go out that night, but decided against it.

As I was skyping, Hannah and Rachel fell asleep. Jenna yelled at them to wake up, and Hannah left. Rachel, stayed however. She was convinced, and tried to convince me that she was awake. I told her that she could stay in my room while I went to shower, but she shouldn't fall asleep again. She told me she would be gone by the time I got back. I took a pretty good length shower, and when I came back, Rachel was still asleep on my bed. I told her that she should probably wake up now, and she looked up at me and said "Your sleeves match". I told her that she wasn't making sense and started to laugh a little. She got a little angry and then said again a little more assertively something about my sleeves matching and my sheets. Again, I just laughed and told her that she wasn't making sense. She then got really angry, looked like she wanted to hurt me, and pointed to my sheets so sure that she was making sense and tried to explain again. I just laughed and then she got up, got her coat and scarf on, said something that did not make sense again, and then said goodnight as she slipped out the door.

Friday was a class-free day for me. We decided to shop a little and then we were going to have a movie night. We went and bought some food and ended up making DINO CHICKEN NUGGETS for dinner, and they were delicious!

They were pretty impressive in size as well as taste!

We ate dinner, with the Germans looking at us in wonder, as we ate our Dino Chicken Nuggets. I also told Rachel about how she looked like she wanted to hurt me the night before, because I wasn't understanding her nonsensical explanation of my sheets and my sleeves. She said that she did not remember any of it, or even walking home, but she remembers me saying, "Rachel you should probably go now" and then she got up and left. That is all. From now on, Rachel is getting walked home, even though she'll deny any help and just argue that she's fine even when she's not.

After dinner, we put in our movie of choice: "Pride and Prejudice"!

The remote did not work so we started watching it in German, but when it was difficult to hear the German dubbing and the subtitles did not show up, Jake got into Jake's "Challenge-me-not-to-do-it-and-I'll-prove-you-wrong-by-doing-it" mode. It took a little while, but he fixed the remote so that we could only move the arrows up and down, which is all that we needed to change the language. So we then continued to watch the movie in English. It was a glorious two hours of Darcy-wonderfulness! Afterwards, I went home content after watching such a great movie, and went to bed.

Today I woke up and met Hannah to shop for some groceries for tomorrow, as everything closes on Sunday. We shopped, and then I relaxed in my room a while, before meeting Hannah again at the train station to buy our tickets for Bonn next weekend. We will be going to Bonn for a conference of sorts for the DAAD next Thursday and Friday. We walked to the train station together actually, because we met one another at the bank by Hannah's house on our way to the station. We were carrying our big bags filled with the linens that Dr. Malchow had lent us for the first few days here in Tuebingen. Our plans for the day were to go to Reutlingen to bring back the linens that we borrowed for the first night or two. We met up with Zach, Rachel, and Helina and caught a train to Reutlingen. We followed Malchow's instructions to the apartment to drop them off, and then followed seven year old Hannah's mind back into town from the apartment. Hannah's dad use to be the director at Reutlingen for Valpo, so when she was little, she lived in Reutlingen, in the apartment that Valpo rents out. When we got back to the main part of the city, we shopped around for a little bit, but before long I was ready to go back. Fall is here. It is cold, and the leaves are falling. Today's weather was freezing, more like winter weather, so it was a little too cold to be outside for me. I caught a train back early in the evening and have been in my room since. Tomorrow I plan on doing laundry and homework. Exciting I know.

So I will post again when I have something of interest to post. Hopefully no more falling.

Until next time.