Märchen

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Also, my stats say that most of my readers are German!  You Americans need to catch up.  I did write the blog in English after all.  And thanks to my parents for all of the "entertaining" comments, I suppose it's better than nothing...

I didn't have class this morning because Ute had a conference to go to, so I slept in, did some Turbo Jam, and put some more money on my prepaid Handy.  I'll probably be using it a lot in Berlin! Oli and I booked a hostel room, and we've already found some clubs we want to check out.  One of them was voted #1 in the world last year and #8 this year, so we're gonna try to get in (although supposedly all of the bouncers are big ass guys with tattoos that try to scare you away.)  I'm not sure what tourist things to check out in Berlin.  I suppose The Wall is a given.  I didn't put much planning into sightseeing before coming on this trip.  All of my planning went into what clubs and concerts I wanted to see!  I figure I can do that tourist stuff when I'm older anyways.

In class we've been learning about Märchen (fairytales.)  That's a lot of fun because 1) German fairytales are notorious for being gruesome and violent, 2) they're written in Kindersprache so we can understand them really easily, and 3) they have pictures! Yay!  I read Die Mäuseprinzessin (The Mouse Princess) and gave a summary to the class.  The book was relatively recent too, so I was able to rip the CD's onto my computer.  Now I can listen to German fairytales as I fall asleep!  They're all princess stories though.  Anthony got one of the true German fairytale books with a boy who sucked on his thumb and got it sliced off and a girl who played with matches and burned herself into ashes.  Kinder FAIL

The sun is finally out, but I have all this homework to do for Culture Course tomorrow.  We have to write a Tagebuch (journal).  It can be in English, but we have to summarize it in German.  I think we only have to show him the German, but if he asks to see the real thing I'll just link him to this site and let him try to muddle through all of my run-on English sentences.  Then tomorrow after class we have our first Academic Advising meeting.  I'm so nervous about taking real classes!  I'm finally at the point where I can understand Ute, but she talks slowly and clearly for us.  How will I be able to keep up with the German students?