24 May 2009 End of May already eh, where have all these days gone?! So many things have been going on, including two 21sts, Saturday classes at uni, a movies overload and blood donation. It’s hard to know where to start! So let’s begin this morning… I just had the coolest two days showing Dad around Freiburg and farewelled him at 8am today. He arrived on Thursday evening and I was at the train station half an hour early to be there to meet him. It was such a treat to ...
8 May 2009 You know that uni has really started to kick in when I start to procrastinate. And you can tell when I am procrastinating because suddenly the kitchen is filled with cakes. Yesterday it was apple cake, the day before it was scones, the outlook is very dim for my dwindling supply of flour… The baking spree actually began on Saturday when Holly (from NZ) and I decided to organize a champagne breakfast. We were jealous of the Finns you see, because they spent ...
28 April 2009 Ok, Freiburg is awesome. Everything: the people, the city, the Bretzels. And I can't believe that I am up to week four already! You can really tell that this is a student town from the crazy number of parties. Every weekend, but not just on weekends, as every night is ‘Student Night’ somewhere in town. On Wednesday I went along with my flatmate to the StuSie bar, which is the equivalent of Shadows. Wednesday is ‘Shots Night’, with 20 shots for 10 Euro, ...
20 April 2009 Day one of the Summer Semester at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and I was up bright and early like the most diligent of students. But unlike those most diligent students I was not up early to study or attend class. No, I was thinking of the holidays already and hurried into uni to sign up for the International trip to Prague, which takes place in the Pentacost holidays. Mission one of the day accomplished, it was then time to do some shopping. I ...
16th April 2009 OK Kiddies, hands up who has heard of IKEA? It is like a giant Swedish Briscoes, and it is BRILLIANT! So brilliant that I actually went there on both Tuesday AND Wednesday. The Tuesday was to be a tourist. The Wednesday was an attempt to make my room look less like a prison cell and more like a livable space. I came home with: 1x table cloth 1x cushion 2x cushion covers 1x vanilla candle 1x Cyprus tree The candle is to try ...
13 April 2009 So, it’s Easter. The time of new beginnings, pretty flowers, easter eggs and general greenery. Not all greenery is good, however. I found this out the other day whilst walking in the park. Curious as to what was behind a stone, I knelt down in the foliage to take a look. This was a mistake. This foliage was not grass as we know it, was not harmless food for cows and such. Oh no. Instead, this grass decided it wanted to take a bite out of ME. And that was how the stinging ...
10 April 2009 It is good that I am writing about two days at once here because they overlap in the time difference between here and NZ. For example, today it is still the 10th here, approximately 9pm. And the 10th is my sister’s birthday. But I rang her last night, on our 9th, and it is no longer her birthday for her even though it is for me! Time warps. Yesterday I did very German things. Or rather, very tourist-in-Germany things. Such as sitting in a beer garden with ...
7 April 2009 The past two days have been filled with crazy bureocracy, German punctuality, a second league soccer game and losing my keys! Let us start with yesterday, to keep things in a nice chronological order. (I can only try this chronological thing and see how long it lasts, hope some of the German orderliness rubs off on me soon!) So, Monday morning… Gabi accompanied me into the city to do all those setting up tasks that one must do before enrolling at uni, namely ...
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