leben heisst geniessen!

my last holiday week was over fast.

on wednesday was the registration for german courses. it all happened online, but in a way that made me laugh. if I was a regular student here, it would make me cry. I shouldn't even complain, I had been warned, but still... oh my god. the registration for all the courses was on the same day, but they had been divided into groups and each group (i.e. literature seminars) had its own registration time. my first and most important registration (linguistics proseminar) was at noon. at 11.59 I updated the registration site constantly in order to sign up as quickly as possible, but I had absolutely no chance. they took 38 students to my proseminar and I was the number 81. after some time some students signed off and I finally landed on place 77. great. I did as I was told to do and wrote the professor an e-mail, begging him to give me an extra place as I was an erasmus student unable to attend a proseminar later. he gave me the place.

on weekend I went hiking with harald. on saturday it was just him and me. on sunday it was him, me, peter and jessica. and hundreds of tourists.

I've also taken part in many erasmus events. on monday was the orientation for the german institute, on tuesday stammtisch, on wednesday karaoke and on sunday a meeting in a bar that I never found, but afterwards I met some of the exchange students for a dinner.

last but not least. today was the day. the first day of my university studies here. I had only one lesson and it all went fine. I met a friendly girl who suggested right away that we should do our presentations together. the professor was nice and funny, the atmosphere relaxed and students indeed took part in the conversation even if they had nothing to say. after the lesson I felt much more self confident about this whole exchange. tomorrow I'll have my first lecture and I'm already looking forward to that.