I had my German placement exam this morning. It was a lot harder than the RA's let on, but I guess we're not expected to know everything already. I had a lot of problems with the vocabulary mostly. A lot of it was business and bank reading comprehension. I'm used to talking about dancing and vacations! The oral section wasn't too bad either. I had a private interview with two of the Deutsch Fremdsprache professors. They asked where I was from, how long I'd studied German, what kind of classes I wanted to take, etc. I told them that I'd been studying German for only a year and a half, but I'd been listening to German techno for 5 years now. :-)
Last night was a good bonding experience for my group. We went to Neustadt with the RA's, and on the way to the bar, one of the RA's had to stop at her friend's apartment to get a book. The other two RA's went with one of the Libby's to find a bathroom, so six of us waited in the alley. Let's just say that it took the RA about 30 minutes to "get her book." We found it pretty funny, but we were also alone in a foreign country in a dark alley, and after about 10 minutes of some creepy guy staring at us and half-smiling, we decided to just leave on our own. Up the street we found the other two RA's and Christine in a bar lol. Kind of annoying, but a good bonding experience. We also saw some sick graffiti (check out my pics.)
We all socialized in the bar for awhile, but it was noisy and the bartender hated Americans, so four of us (Jason, Anthony, Lin, and me) decided to go wandern. We walked around and window-shopped and checked out all the different bars. Unfortunately all the ones I liked best were "too expensive" lol. We ended up at a Doener restaurant, which are everywhere around here. They're Turkish, but their gyros are a lot bigger than what you get in the states. We ordered a Funghi (mushroom) pizza and some beers and Bacardi and Cokes (yes, you can get drinks at the fast food places here.) Did I mentioned that I haven't yet been carded once? This place rocks!
We left the Turkish place at about 1 and found our way back to the Bahnhoff (train station), but apparently the night schedule is different from the day schedule, so we ended up at the last stop in the outskirts of Dresden, about as far from our dorm as we could be. We thought we'd been going the right way so we were going to just keep walking along the tracks (although it was already 2 am and the streets were dark and empty), but luckily Lin had brought her map so we realized our mistake and then started freaking out about how to get home. We thought we would have to walk back (a two hour walk at least) because it was already so late and the trains had probably stopped, but as we were going along a train came. As soon I heard it, I started sprinting for the stop. Taking the T has trained me well. :-)
All in all, it was a good bonding experience, and sometimes it's fun to feel like a freshman again. Lin and I were talking about how weird we feel in a coed bathroom and the guys were making fun of us. We told them that whenever a German guy was in a stall we never heard a sound, and it kind of freaked us out. Anthony replied, "Well, it's a little known fact that Germans actually do their taxes in the bathroom." That had us laughing all night!
Ok, I'm off to a fancy Welcome Dinner paid for by BU! Then Lin and I might be going to die Prüfungsabschlussabschussparty (the End of the Finals Kick-Off Party)!
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