Monday, September 29, 2008

Back in Berlin and the first day of classes!

Well, we finally made it home yesterday after a bit of delay on the train. And I have to admit that I've never been so happy to be somewhere "foreign" in my entire life. After the 5 hour train ride through beautiful countryside and leaves changing colors, I was so ready to return "home" even if it was actually my home away from home away from home.Yesterday afternoon when I finally got back home I was greeted by 13 bees. They were thankfully all dead but there were more living ones flying around when i woke up this morning...I'm going to have to talk to Aloissia about that! Anyways, I did some laundry and talked on skype and finally got a good nights sleep in my own bed!! It was amazing!

I woke up this morning for my first day of classes which was a mixture of excitement and fear. I was so afraid that I would be lost the whole time but as I expected my classes so far have been absolutely AMAZING!! I still have one more to go (it doesn't start until 6pm) but my two morning classes were unbelievable!

My first class was Portable Roots and we're going to be talking about ethnic and religious minorities in both Germany and Europe. Now I'm sure to most of youth at sounds miserable but couldn't be more excited! My professor is really really cool and easy to understand (which is really the most important thing) and I can't wait to get going with it. My second class today was a German film class which was really cool. It's called German film as refracted history so we wasted no time and watched Der Untertan today which explains the German Empire/Weimar Republic. Now, the movie itself was not my favorite I think the class itself is going to be really neat.

I can not even tell you how happy I am to be starting class. One because I am a huge nerd and two because I finally have a schedule! But anyways, I'm confident that this post is pretty boring (minus the small swarm of bees in my bedroom) but I'm so excited about my classes and I just wanted everyone to know!!

Oh yea, check back in a couple of hours for a picture from the train ride home!!

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