Random by Lance

Finished with week 1!

I wanted to wait to make another blog post until after my first week was over, so that I wasn’t just basically saying the same thing every day. So this post is basically going to be a giant recap of my entire first week.

Anyways - wow, it’s crazy how fast this week went by. I’ve almost been in Germany for a week and I felt like I was just landing and trying to avoid an epic jet lag. I’ve officially mastered the German introduction (Wie Geht’s? O Allez ist Gut, und dir?) haha, and am excited to learn more German everyday.

A typical day for me starts out at about 7:10am, checking if it’s going to rain, then jumping in the shower. Then I go in my room and listen to a little music and head off for the S-Bahn (rail system) around 8:10am. It’s about a 5-10min walk to the station and I usually have a nice little playlist that I’m listening to as I take in the morning air. I’ll get onto the No31 Bahn and take a short 10 min ride to Dammtor. I’ll then get off and go get a croissant in the station and eat it as I’m walking for another 5 min to the language school. I’ll stop and get my morning Cafe right next to the school, and then head up to class. The class goes from 8:50am-1:00pm and we take two 15 min break (fünfzehn minuten pauses) where we go outside and talk in usually any language… other than German haha. After class, I’ll go and grab a croissant with ham/cheese/turkey/etc.. and go off back to the apartment. When I get back, I’ll write out all the new words we learned that day, and then get ready to go the fitness center I signed up at. LeFit:

I go every day and then after a quick shower, I come back to review the words that I had written down earlier. After this review, I’ll go and grab something to eat close by. I’ll come back and do my homework (Hausaufgab) and then I’ll do a couple chapters on Rosetta Stone. It’s usually about 11pm now and I’ll get ready for sleep, and after reading a short chapter in my book (The next book will be in German), I’ll go to sleep around midnight.

Besides my daily life, I wanted to talk a little bit about the graffiti in the town. I had forgotten how much graffiti there is in Europe, and while I despise about 95% of it, there are some that are actually kind of cool - like these:

McDonald’s in the distance

This one is awesome, but I was too zoomed in - this thing goes for maybe 100 yards:

Anyways- that to say.. I still hate the graffiti, but I guess if it all looked like the better ones, then maybe I wouldn’t be so against it.

I’ll post again tomorrow with my weekend stories - I already have some good ones from last night. Until the next time - God Bless!

German Lesson #2 - Tell me about yourself:

Deutsch: Hallo. Ich bin Lance. Mein nachname is O’Brien. Ich komme aus die USA aber jetzt ich lebe in Hamburg-Altona. Ich bin zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt. Ich bin ledig und habe keine kinder.

English: Hello. I am Lance. My last name is O’Brien. I come from the USA but now I live in Altona. I am 22 years old. I am single and I have no kids.

7 August 2010 · Comments