Week of Experimentation

So it’s a rainy day here in the land of Germany. Things have been picking up with the start of classes and all. We’ve been meeting and hanging out with lots of students. I’ve met some people from Russia and the Ukraine on my floor but I don’t see them very often.

It was a week of experiments for me. One thing that’s pretty disappointing about Germany is the lack of biscuits here. So I decided that I would make my own. The interesting part is trying to find the right ingredients at the grocery store and then trying to convert english units to metric. The biscuits turned out pretty good and with some cheese and salami, they were amazing. I also made French toast for the first time which turned out pretty well. The syrup here is a little different unless you want to pay 6 euros for the Canadian Maple syrup.

I also decided that I was due for a haircut, and in an effort to try something new and save money, I just decided to do it myself. I borrowed some hair cutting scissors from a friend and with a couple of mirrors and some newspapers, I hacked away. I think it looks pretty good. Sorry I don’t have pictures just yet.
Wednesday we went to a Uni-film showing where they play movies for students for only like 2 euros. So we got to see Wall-E in German which was pretty cool.
Last Friday, we had our first official event at Unterwegs where we hosted a game night. We only had 4 students show up but we had a lot of fun playing card games and eating tons of cookies and gummy bears.

Last night I was really enjoying my sleep until about 2 a.m. when the fire alarm went off. I was really hoping it would only last about 5 min. or so, but not this time. After about 15 min. I decided I should leave the building since the alarm wasn’t going to let me sleep any time soon. So I joined everyone outside in time to see the fire trucks show up but I never saw any signs of an actual fire. The firemen went in and in about 5 min the alarm was turned off and we were allowed back in.

Tomorrow I think we’re having a calzone night then going to a dance club which should be interesting. We’ll see how that turns out.