So apparently I should have something blog-worthy since I am living in a different country..etc. It has been almost a month that I have been in Germany. Time has flown by, I do not believe that it is even possible that I have been here this long. Well...where to start? I got here on January 7th at about 3pm. I met my buddy (Inga), she helps me with different things like everything one needs to know about Luneburg- grocery stores, cool places to hang out, cheap baked goods etc...After we met up we went to the place where I am staying for 4 months.
We got on a bus with my two pieces of luggage. We got off the bus like 10 minutes later and walked my luggage through the snow to an old style Germany house. The last thing Inga said before we got to the door was "are you nervous" I told her not really and we knocked on the door to the house. My host mom answered and said (in German) "come on in and take your shoes off. Today we will use English, but from tomorrow on, only German". I was a bit intimidated by this, but I agreed. We sat down in the dining room and went over leases and such with my buddy. We had a really good herbal tea with cookies.
The first two nights I ate dinner with my host family. They cooked Indian style food both times, which tasted great. I had orientation Friday and Saturday of that week, so my time was spent going to the school for hours and then coming home and going to bed. The second day I was here (Friday) my host family had a friend from London (Andrew) come and visit for a few days. He was really nice and I asked him about a whole bunch of popular cultural things like "Keeping up Appearances" and "Rocky Horror Picture Show". He had a really good sense of humor and was fun to talk to. My host mom, Andrew and I went to brunch that Sunday at a wonderful restaurant. They had tons to pick from, we sat around for about 4 hours eating and talking.
The first week of school was a bit stressful because we had a placement exam and we were placed into our levels. The Saturday of our first week the USAC program took us on a trip to Hamburg. We went to the Harbor and rode on a ferry. We also went to a church ruin tower that is a memorial of the destruction war can cause. Later that evening we went to dinner at this really cool restaurant that had amazing Salmon.
Since this time I have gone to my first German soccer game, the hamburg art museum, hamburg history museum, the U-Boot museum and The Dungeon (a haunted house/history/comedy museum). This week we are planning to go to Hamburg on Wednesday to see Madame Butterfly. I hope it works out, I have always wanted to see an Opera in Germany. We will be going in two weeks on a 3 night stay in Koln for Carnival. That is all for now...I am sure I missed important things, but for now... bis spaeter
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