4/4/08

German class is finally coming to an end. Although it was a great experience learning the basics of the German language for a week, I am ready to move onto the business classes. The German students keep telling us that the business classes are rather challenging. I want Monday to arrive so I can finally find out for myself!

With today being the last day of German class, our teacher, who is from Würzburg, Germany (about a 30 minute drive to the north of Bad Mergentheim), gave us a celebration lunch in which she wanted us to experience one of her favorite German meals. The meal consisted of a white sausage, sweet mustard, and large pretzels. She really wanted us to be able to experience her favorite beer with the meal as well but didn’t want her chef (boss) to become agitated that she fed us beer before our German test, which was going to be taking place later in the day.

All seven of us students and our teacher went over to the Singapore student’s apartment, which is right next to campus, to cook the sausages and eventually eat the delicious food. Our teacher cooked 35 sausages for the eight of us to consume right before our test! Not to mention, we had about 20 large pretzels that also needed to be consumed. After five very good sausages, three large pretzels, and sweet mustard, I felt as though I would not be hungry for the next few days!

Later in the evening, Theresa, who is one of the German students at the University and also involved in the student government, set up a fun night for all of us to hangout at one of the local bars. All of us international students were there except for the Singapore students (they travel in a bunch…..when one stays behind they all stay behind). Either way it was a fun night of meeting more German students and also getting to know the other international students better.

Internet Update: After class I rushed home to meet our landlords (Herr Heppner and Frau Heppner) who were coming to pick up the rent money. After collecting the money, Herr Heppner informed me that his wife and daughter talked about the internet and decided that it was not going to work out due to security reasons. What ensued was 10 minutes of me trying to persuade them to give us the code to the wireless internet that their daughter has. Happy to say after those 10 minutes, they finally gave in and said they will come by tomorrow and supply us with the code. I really hope they do not fall back on their word seeing how this our last chance to get any type of internet at the apartment.