Ok first off I need to A) start carring a bag around and B) in said bag carry a camera. Its helpful. Anyways...first day of the program! WOOO! got up at 745am showered (i will post pics of our bathroom, we are in a community style dorm not separate apartments), and met up with the group at half 7, as our interns say haha. Headed over to the International Office on TU's campus, had a orientation meeting with paperwork and all then had a campus tour. Now realize that they don't really have tour guides per say like most Uni's do, we we were shown around the mail points of the campus. Like the Mensa (cafeteria) and a few other random buildings but that was really it. Then at the last mensa our tour guide said well you can stay here and eat lunch but i am going back to the international office. Well we all kind of stared at him and went "how do we get back if we stay here?" and he is like ohh. So we all troop back the office with no lunch only leftovers from breakfast (which by the way is like a brunch type thing in the States, lots of meats and cheeses on bread) which weren't there. So me and two other guys went to the supermarkt and got some water and when we got back there was a bit of breakfast they had brought in so we had then then chilled out for two hours waiting for our city tour. Now the city tour was awesome and i was pissed i didn't bring my camera (keep in mind none of us knew what we were doing today) but eventually i will get around to getting pictures this weekend. So we had our city tour then came back and signed up for internet, i went to the supermarkt to grab bread and jam for pb and j sandwiches (AND THEY HAVE PEANUT BUTTER HERE!!!...but its in like little 8oz cans so im glad i brought my Jiff : D ). Then after dinner about 15 of us went out to an irish pub in the city and had a good time haha. Found out my faviorte kind of bier is dark or in German "dunkle". Now we are back and its 1am here and i have to be up at 7ish WOOO haha but that way my day in a nutshell, tomorrow bring the first day of advanced german class and hopefully finding a place to exchange american money. Bis Spaeter!
6/26/11 First day in Braunschweig
So I made it to Braunschweig, got picked up at the Hanover airport and driven to my dorm on the autobahn!
Not really that exciting haha Interesting though is that there are speed limits or suggested speeds given by
these electronic signs like we have for exits and information. Sometimes they are on and sometimes they are off,also like the traffic lights here haha. As we were driving through I noticed that some of the lights weren't
even on only like one or two were on that we pasted in totally, it was really weird. Anyways got the dorm and realizedit is a dorm, no apartments haha here are some pics of my new digs :)
Today we all just hung out cause there is no internet yet for us, supposedly they can only grant internet for three hours each monday and if you miss that window you have to wait till next week. Rough stuff over here. So we ordered some pizza for dinner tonight and let me tell you, it is not the same pizza we have over there haha. We all put in 6E and our interns (Libby and Holly) went and got us a smorgishboard of pizza. We had hawaiian, hotdog, texas (wich islike all peppers and a whole bunch of other stuff), this weird one with hot sauce and bacon, salami and we also got acheese to be plain haha. The real kicker is that the pizza over here isn't precut, thank goodness they supplyed uswith knifes and such haha. It was a great night, talking with new people (from india, bombay, the states, cananda, UK,brazil just to name a few) and we watched some horriable soccer and finished it with watching part of the hulk...in German of course! haha. Most of us have called it a night early (about 9-10pm) since alot of us got here either today or last night. Here are some pictures of my flights and travels so far! Bis Spaeter!
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