First day of class. Not so bad except for waking up too late. We're doing the intensive language class and the lit&culture one right now and both seem like they'll be interesting for me and interesting and tough work for the others. I get to go to this series of seminars in a few weeks (the European Academy) about the Treaty of Lisbon and ratifying (or not) the new EU constitution. Most of the other students are choosing to only go to a part of the series because they want to keep up with the regular german class, but since I'm really set as far as the language goes I get a few days off to go hear important people talk about international things. Yay!
The host family is really nice. Minority Report was on TV last night and I watched it with Anna (the sister) and we bonded over being startled and grossed out. But I went to bed early so I didn't see the end.
And I think my host dad's mother who lives in Stuttgart might be about to die. They don't really talk about it and all that they've actually told me is that she's sick and they're afraid of bad news. Jurgen keeps getting calls on his cell phone and I keep overhearing things about the hospital and maybe that Jurgen might fly down there. It's kind of awkward, because I feel like they're telling me as much as they want me to know but it isn't everything and then what do I do if something happens that throws the whole family into a crisis? And I don't even know how to console people in English- what do you say in German?! I guess I can talk to Jochen about it.
I walked around my little area of town this afternoon and found the great park for running (its a kind of greenway that runs all the way to the outskirts of berlin). One of the Duke guys lives near here and he says he goes running there and its 10km long. We'll see if I'm up for that.
The others watched the superbowl last night (it started at 2am) at some german person's house, but I didn't go cause I wanted to get some sleep the night before class started. Mom, I guess you were happy that the Giants won. I'm a little disappointed. I heard the game itself was mostly boring except for the very end.
It looks like there's a bird that lives in the tree right outside of the window of my bedroom- it's black and white, I wonder what kind that is.
Well, I have some homework to do. Finding german articles online, keeping a diary in german, etc. Even if it's easy it still has to be done.
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