March 20, 2012

School! :(

Well lately we haven't done anything too exciting, we have been working on getting school figured out and everything done right. Sunday we had a city tour with a local man here who spoke English, he took us all around town and told us a lot about the history of Trier which was very nice to hear and learn! I wish I could remember it all and I would tell everyone but there was too much information that day for me to retain any! Lol
 A famous basilica close to the city center
 Biggest one in Trier and Beautiful!!




We have been hanging out with the KU students a lot, they all live in the dorms and we go over there to hangout, we have met some interesting Germans too which are fun and quite a few other international students, from Mexico, Poland, Holland, Russia, Columbia, Greece, and Spain. They are all very nice, and help us completely with translations. 
 Kenra and I getting ready to eat German food!!!
 Tiffany, Kenra, Audrey, and Me. all of us are from K-state
 Audrey and i

Monday morning we had a meeting for the first day of school. It was completely in German and after we broke off into our groups according to our majors. We are pretty much stuck in with the freshmen in interior architecture, but we can choose as high of level classes as we want. But they just talked about what goes on and what to do in Trier. They gave us chocolate and a glass of wine for the meeting (alcohol is all the time). But it was confusing because we are not freshman and there was a lot of stuff we needed to do that they didn’t and vice versa. Anyway I really don’t get my class schedule and choose my classes until tomorrow.
 My room, finally pretty organized and homey!!!
 This is a Beer vending machine in the dorms... in the DORMS of all places


But we did sign up for a Photography class that starts tomorrow and only goes for 2 weeks but will technically transfer like 2 credits for me! So hopefully I can take some classes like that which will be fun! J We also go tomorrow to listen to presentations by professors to explain the projects that they will be doing in their studios so we can figure out which one we want to do this semester. So it’s going to be tough when they are all in German!
 Audrey had been wanting a giant ice cream this whole time and we finally stopped and got some yesterday
 it was DELICIOUS!
 i had a giant banana split!!!! :) :)

Last night then all the design majors got together to celebrate the first day of the semester. We met on campus in front of the design building and all hung out and talked, got to meet a lot of people in my major and more upper classman. Then we went to a restaurant to hang out and played some games and sat around. It was nice!
 Kenra, audrey and I (all roommates)
 Kenra, Lauren (our KU friend) and Me
 Kenra and I at the Roman Amphetheatre

My mail is working, I got a package from my Mom and Dad today, THANK YOU!!!!! J and on Thursday we get our resident visas. Cordy is our roommate and she is super nice! She has helped us a lot and done a lot of translating for us. The boy roommate never has shown up, Cordy is worried because technically he started classes yesterday and he still isn’t here. We don’t really know! Elizabeth and Victor will be back next weekend to put in our stove top and our oven!!! Can’t wait for that! I’m ready to do some good cooking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im really stressed about the classes and getting everything right and started for school, once we get that figured out then I will feel better and be ready to conquer this school semester! J
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1 comment:

  1. The basilica is AmAzInG! I want to reach out and touch the stone. Love the "beer" vending machines in the dorms...I can think of a few people who would go crazy with that idea...lol. Looks like you are getting it all figured out, language barriers and all.

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