it is so gay out!

This is my Fahrrad. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of this recent addition to my life. It seems a little early to say, but I think that one of the things I am sure I will miss about living here once I leave is the ability to get around town without a car. People do have cars, and there are buses, but they are all too expensive for the average student. The majority of people ride bikes, and I can't imagine what its going to be like when all of the students are here for the semester and there are 30,000 bikes on the road.

If you take a close look at the picture you will see that there is a package in my basket. That package came from Deutsche Post. Deutsche Post is good. I rode over to the Zollamt to pick up a different package today. I'd been there before, but it was only today that I realized Zollamt is CUSTOMS. Customs is bad. [Is that singular?] Oh yeah, and that rumor going around that everyone speaks English in Germany? FILTHY LIE (I actually didn't try to speak English with the guy, but he sure didn't do anything to slow down his crazy dialected-German)

We are all going out tonight with an English guy we met when we were bar-hopping on Wednesday. Bar-hopping, that is so weird. I can't see myself doing this anywhere but here. Tomorrow night I might go out drinking with two of the ILP professors. It is really strange for your teacher to invite the class to go to a pub with him. Drinking culture is so different here than at home, some other time I'll have to write a dissertation on it. Other than that, I REALLY need to devote the weekend to writing my Hausarbeit.

If you are ever in Germany and you want to complain about how humid it is, make sure you pronounce the umlaut in "schwuel" (the -ue indicates that the u is umlauted). Otherwise... its a whole different story.