For The First Time

Heute:

I got to class around 8:20ish which left enough time to putz around before class started at 8:40... so Dan and I went and got Starbucks (YAY for 2nd starbucks!!) and I bought myself the CUTEST coffee mug (the kind that you can take with you...with the lid)! So now I can make myself tea in the mornings before class, or even coffee if I can stomach just regular coffee...we shall see!

Class went really well, I feel like I am learning SO much from Frau Heckmann and she's going really slow and reviewing everything which makes me feel a lot more confident with a lot of it. So that's really nice. For lunch, Anna and I went to Kamps, a Backerei and I had a KaseBrotchen...it was UNBELIEVABLY amazing!! Mmmm! Then we went and had a tour of a museum that holds all the furniture that used to be inside the castle when the prince and princess lived there. It was kind of cool altho I feel like Id be able to really appreciate it more if we hadn't been touring a museum or another part of the actual town every day for almost a week now. So we finished with the museum around 3 and I went back to AJY to see if Pat was online. He wasn't...so I wound up taking the bus/s-bahn home alone for the first time which was definitely an experience! I'm starting to feel a lot more adult here...its weird. I like it tho...don't get me wrong, I feel like I can accomlish things without my parents around which is scary/nice all at the same time. So after I got back to my apartment I talked to Mom on skype for an hour which was nice because we haven't really been able to speak because my internet is so freaking slow. Then Dan, Anna and I went to the Hof to buy dinner. Anna made us Schnitzel and I made Mommy Pasta (pasta with tons of butter/parmo haha) and we had Dan & Peter up here for dinner. I really like my little Ringstrasse Gruppe. Charis came to visit tonight which was really exciting!! She lives directly above me and was an AJYer this past Fall and then graduated in January and now has an actual job in Germany and lives here!! She's FANTASTIC!! Reminds me a lot of Johanna in a way altho not nearly as crazy as Jojo :) Anyway she made me feel a lot better about the way my roommates/suitemates have been acting. And she also taught me that Germans don't do the whole "open door policy" even in the common areas like the kitchen and whenever you cook, you have to leave the window open. SO weird. Well, she hung out for a while and it was nice to talk to someone who was SOO friendly and fun and then at around 9ish everyone left my apartment and I started my homework.

It's been a pretty productive day altho I sort of feel like these days are flying past and I'm not really getting anything accomplished...its really strange. I'm really excited about Friday night though because I'm having a bunch of people over to my room and then we're going to a club around the corner from me which is apparently a lot of fun! I feel like my life here has started to kind of pick up a pattern, altho we'll see where it pans out too! I really miss my Eloners...I talked to Kir earlier today while I was online in the AJY center and being so far away makes me really feel left out/sad. I'm almost more excited about next year than I am about being here which is kind of ridiculous haha. Anyway its 10:30 and I think I'm going to head to bed. Love and miss you all!!

Becca