University stress and grog
Oct. 19th, 2011 09:43Yesterday I kind of reached my breaking point. Or is that boiling point? Anyway, late Monday evening I did a last check of my schedule - in case they'd switched rooms or something. And there I found out that I'd been thrown out of two classes by the online scheduling system, which kind of made me flip my shit a bit. Now, the first class, which was on Tuesday morning, wasn't too bad since it said that it's got unlimited space. But the second class, which I'll go visited and try to get into today, only has 35 places. And I applied in good time, but now I'm not sure if I'll be able to take it or not. It also looks really interesting
Then in the morning we got a surprise (for me) visit by the washing machine repair guy, which would have annoyed me considerably less if I'd known to wash my hair in the evening. Solution: Keep that hat on, yo! Lucky for me, there was such a long break between morning and afternoon class so I could go home and fix my hair. I just hate it when stuff messes up on my first day...
The day finished with an epically long lecture, on an interesting but heavy topic: The lost illusions of German nationalism, a cultural history. Interesting, but hard to listen to for three hours, especially as I was kind of dying of hunger after a while and because the lecture contained omg so much information, of which I desperately had to try and write everything down.
Thank goodness for anime, is all I can say, because it is not an exaggeration to state that everything I learned about the Holy Roman Empire I learned due to Hetalia. And there was a lot about the HRE yesterday, as well as various German poets whose names I only vaguely recall (Klopstock being the one I know best, and even that is basically as "the guy they like in Werther") as well as various societies and groups. Unfortunately, our lecturer did not write a single thing on the whiteboard, nor did he put on any pictures or anything, so I will have to go through my notes and try to google/wiki the hmm-mebbe-spelled-like-this? people.
Oh, and he's scheduled the exams for the 20th or 21th of December. When I have already gone back to Sweden for Christmas, since the website and several people have stated quite clearly that term ends on the 19th December. Joy is not what I feel about this revelation...
Anyway, tired and grumpy as I was, I hurried over to the library (which is open until midnight ♥) and decided with some of my classmates that one successful day totally deserves a beer or similar. So we met up at Warschauer strasse in the rain (I don't know why, but Berlin never feels as Berlin-y to me as when it's raining) and then found a little italian place with cheap drinks. And nice soup too, we discovered after a while. I tried a grog, which was less sweet than I had expected but just what I needed after that day and then somehow we ended up with me and A having a bit of a Harry Potter geekout - I think I want to read the books in German before I go home, btw - and it was basically just what I needed.
Today I'll try to apply for a language class and will go to my maybe-I'm-allowed-in-maybe-not class and hopefully it will start better and end as well as yesterday.
Then in the morning we got a surprise (for me) visit by the washing machine repair guy, which would have annoyed me considerably less if I'd known to wash my hair in the evening. Solution: Keep that hat on, yo! Lucky for me, there was such a long break between morning and afternoon class so I could go home and fix my hair. I just hate it when stuff messes up on my first day...
The day finished with an epically long lecture, on an interesting but heavy topic: The lost illusions of German nationalism, a cultural history. Interesting, but hard to listen to for three hours, especially as I was kind of dying of hunger after a while and because the lecture contained omg so much information, of which I desperately had to try and write everything down.
Thank goodness for anime, is all I can say, because it is not an exaggeration to state that everything I learned about the Holy Roman Empire I learned due to Hetalia. And there was a lot about the HRE yesterday, as well as various German poets whose names I only vaguely recall (Klopstock being the one I know best, and even that is basically as "the guy they like in Werther") as well as various societies and groups. Unfortunately, our lecturer did not write a single thing on the whiteboard, nor did he put on any pictures or anything, so I will have to go through my notes and try to google/wiki the hmm-mebbe-spelled-like-this? people.
Oh, and he's scheduled the exams for the 20th or 21th of December. When I have already gone back to Sweden for Christmas, since the website and several people have stated quite clearly that term ends on the 19th December. Joy is not what I feel about this revelation...
Anyway, tired and grumpy as I was, I hurried over to the library (which is open until midnight ♥) and decided with some of my classmates that one successful day totally deserves a beer or similar. So we met up at Warschauer strasse in the rain (I don't know why, but Berlin never feels as Berlin-y to me as when it's raining) and then found a little italian place with cheap drinks. And nice soup too, we discovered after a while. I tried a grog, which was less sweet than I had expected but just what I needed after that day and then somehow we ended up with me and A having a bit of a Harry Potter geekout - I think I want to read the books in German before I go home, btw - and it was basically just what I needed.
Today I'll try to apply for a language class and will go to my maybe-I'm-allowed-in-maybe-not class and hopefully it will start better and end as well as yesterday.
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