Now that it's been more than a week I feel like I should get down to this and update my loyal followers of the fantastic goings-on of Deutschland. The week, as you can imagine, was quite uneventful as it was the first week of classes. On the whole I think it will be a good semester academically, not too stressful but not a free ride either. I would post my schedule but, unlike regular school, it is not the same week to week and is able to change up to a couple days before the class is scheduled so it would be far more of a hassle than it's worth.
This weekend was much more low key than the last which is good, if you know me I need relaxed weekends more often than not and with the chaos that was the weekend before and Amsterdam coming up this weekend I needed some me time. Saturday I was planning on going out with everyone however after dinner my host parents and I started talking about physics and the universe and all sorts of things that are not often discussed at the dinner table over beers. At 11 I realized that nothing was going to happen with the group and Michael *host dad* offered we go watch Inglorious Bastards because I'd mentioned I wanted to see it. I thought it was a very good film and before anyone thinks it would be weird to watch it with a German guy, it wasn't.
Sunday was the opening event for the semester where both LMU groups (business and theater) got together with the Texas group (animation, I believe) and basically introduced who we are and what not to our host families. We then got to go on a tour of a palace on the top of a mountain which was awesome, I'll go through my friends photos and download 'em to my computer so I can upload them here for you to look at. Sunday night my host family and I went across the street to Liz's host family (girl from LMU) for a group dinner because both families are friends and Liz and I are friendly enough. I went in expecting a boring old person dinner that, as a kid, I loathed. It turned out to be a very fun experience, on the contrary, and I hope we get to do it again.
Yesterday was Emily's 21st birthday so a group of us went out to an Irish pub to celebrate which was quite fun. We started at 9:30 and I got on the 1:30 am bus home. Fortunately none of us had class the next morning so we didn't have any regrets or reservation on the night. Today, Tuesday, we're going to meet the mayor of Bonn and become official citizens which is exciting. Just in case I don't get to updating again for a while (probably will after my Amsterdam visit), tomorrow is a group excursion in Cologne; I'll be sure to bring my camera because there is a cathedral there, as I mentioned before, that is beyond words. I'll do my best to capture it for you and post some pictures.
Until next time, stay in milk, don't do school and drink your drugs kids.
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