Day 49

I had my first real class today! And it went surprisingly well. I woke up and had a bowl of healthy and delicious Kellogg's Chocos, which are just bigger chocolate rice krispies. Then I went to the study center to meet Greg and Margaux so we could walk to class together. In Germany, there is a weird rule about the starting time of classes. If the class starts on the hour, it actually starts fifteen minutes later, but if it starts any other time, it starts on time. When they first told us, we thought that every class started fifteen minutes later than the time it says on the paper. So we planned to leave at 11 for a class we thought started at 11:30, but at 11:05 when a friend came back and told us about the second half of the rule, we freaked out! We rushed to get to the building and then when we got to the room, with only 2 minutes to spare, we realized no one was there. We had to deductively reason and try to figure out where the class was, but ended up wandering around and checking tons of rooms. It seemed like forever but it only took us 7 minutes to spot other AJY kids in a room and figure that is where we should be and the teacher followed us into the room, so we got very lucky!

From there, class went very smoothly. It was a phonetics and intonations class and we had to interview a partner and talk about them in front of the class and she corrects your mistakes. One girl in the class cried and that was terrible, but the professor is a very nice woman and the class seemed like it would be difficult but very helpful for actually learning the language and eventually sounding like a german. And class was even better, because I was one of only three people that didn't get to read in front of the class this week, but has to go next week, haha.

After class, Liv, Liz, Margaux and I went to the mensa with everyone, but it was so crowded and we decided we wanted crepes instead. Then, Liz and I registered for our campus cards and then went to search and find the rooms for our classes for the rest of the week. We have four classes together. Then we sat and had a really nice milchkaffee date and talked for a few hours. I'm excited that Liz and I are getting a lot closer and have so many classes together, because she is so nice and goes to Gettysburg, so we can visit each other when we get back from Germany too. Overall it was a good first day of classes and I hope tomorrow goes as well.