exhaustion replaces fatigue
I don't really have time for a real post, but it just needs to be said that everything here is an "adventure," like trying to figure out the washing machines just now, for instance. It takes five 20 cent Euros to wash the tiniest load of laundry. I don't have enough money for a second load, let a lone for the one dryer (I had to go around to all the different buildings in the Siedlung to look for open washers, and since there were none, had to wait in the basement of my building for the owners of the clothing in the washers to come and fetch their belongings), so I will probably hang most everything out on these clothing racks that line every hall.
Today was my second day of ILP, the Intensive Language Program. When these people say intensive, they really mean it. I got placed in the highest of the three classes (based on my performance on the written test and oral interview last Wednesday), but I don't think I belong there. These people are insane. I can't even describe the amount of work I am supposed to churn out tonight... and I really don't want to think about the big projects that are due in the coming weeks. I talked to Professor Beilein after class today to tell him I had some worries about my abilities as they relate to the level of this class (too bad I couldn't really express myself that accurately), but from what I could gather (we were rushing down nine flights of stairs, and he was speaking in his quiet German way) he didn't seem to think I had too much of a problem. I just hope I can keep up and improve as rapidly as is possible. Jacky has been doing me the favor of making a good number of jokes about how any social life I had hoped for this summer is now completely out of the question... I can hope she is wrong, but that will remain to be seen. I wasted my afternoon (class is from 9:00-12:45) doing the tour of the library (ours is one of the best libraries in the country, and yet it isn't even half-way digitalized), and then trying to just do a bit of laundry. Its like life here is tailor-made to frustrate.
Other than that, things are fine. I am learning how to completely swallow my pride, and banish any sense of egoism I may have carried around the past two decades. And speaking of that, my birthday is really soon.
Today was my second day of ILP, the Intensive Language Program. When these people say intensive, they really mean it. I got placed in the highest of the three classes (based on my performance on the written test and oral interview last Wednesday), but I don't think I belong there. These people are insane. I can't even describe the amount of work I am supposed to churn out tonight... and I really don't want to think about the big projects that are due in the coming weeks. I talked to Professor Beilein after class today to tell him I had some worries about my abilities as they relate to the level of this class (too bad I couldn't really express myself that accurately), but from what I could gather (we were rushing down nine flights of stairs, and he was speaking in his quiet German way) he didn't seem to think I had too much of a problem. I just hope I can keep up and improve as rapidly as is possible. Jacky has been doing me the favor of making a good number of jokes about how any social life I had hoped for this summer is now completely out of the question... I can hope she is wrong, but that will remain to be seen. I wasted my afternoon (class is from 9:00-12:45) doing the tour of the library (ours is one of the best libraries in the country, and yet it isn't even half-way digitalized), and then trying to just do a bit of laundry. Its like life here is tailor-made to frustrate.
Other than that, things are fine. I am learning how to completely swallow my pride, and banish any sense of egoism I may have carried around the past two decades. And speaking of that, my birthday is really soon.
posted by Meredesu at 5:31 PM
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