A little update on life here. Sorry it’s been a whole week
since my last post!
Wednesday was a bit manic, to say the least. We were given a
day off to get everything done in order to matriculate. Having planned on
getting up at 8 am, I woke up at 10 am. It was a bad omen and the rest of the
morning was a bit of a disaster! I needed to bring my European Health Insurance
Card in order not to get health insurance from the university. I somehow only
brought my old one with me. Thus I was eventually forced to pretty much jog
home. Thankfully I had found it with 2 minutes, but had to rush back into town
and get everything sorted. I had a moment when I felt like the main protagonist
of the well-known German film ‘Lola rennt’ (‘Run Lola Run’), except without the
red hair, level of fitness, and life-or-death task to complete. In the evening
I went along to a club here called ‘TopTen’, which both sold pizza and had a
room with a revolving dance floor. Bizarre.
On Friday we had an Internationales Abendessen, for which
everyone cooked or brought along something to eat or drink from their home
country. Us English folk got together and came up with Flapjacks, Victoria Sponge
and cucumber and marmite sandwiches which seemed to go down quite well. The
evening ended in the student club with the wonderful name of ‘Kucuck’.
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| English Pride |
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| What to choose... |
Sunday saw the German Election. The day before I was in the
centre of town, where all the major parties were making last-ditch attempts to
win voters, including giving out roses. We had a really useful lesson covering
the basics of German politics on Friday. What makes me rather dismayed is that
after one lesson I may now know more about German than English politics... On
Sunday morning I visited a different church to the one I went to last week. Once
again I was sitting next to some other people quite new to the church, who I
got to speak to afterwards and with whom I could travel some of the way home.
In the afternoon I went an ‘Ausflug’ (trip) with some other Erasmus students to
the Wurmlinger Kapelle, a chapel situated on the top of a large hill and
between Tübingen and Rottenburg. The journey was SOMEWHAT longer than I
anticipated, particularly as I had expected to go by bus... Despite this it was
a beautiful walk up there and the wonderful view at the top was amplified by my
pride at having reached the top (after 2 hours or so). And I didn’t complain
once. :P
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| Canvassing in the centre of town |
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| Angie on a billboard |
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| Music for the journey to the Wurmlinger Kapelle |
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| View from the Wurmlinger Kapelle |
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| More view |
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| Made it! |
The weather has vastly improved over the past few days which
has been a bit of a relief. I was starting to think that as I am leaving in
February, I would only experience Tübingen in the wet or cold! It has also meant the excuse to eat as much ice cream as possible until it gets too cold. Today (Tuesday)
classes 3 and 4 from the Start-Kurs went on a ‘Stocherkahnfahrt’. I spoke about
this in my second post, so you can treat this as a vocab test or just look at the
picture of e trying not to capsize below. J
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| Trying to do Cambridge proud... |
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| Note to self: Pictures that involve posing with ice-creams are not attractive. |
Oh, some additions to the Denglish Lexicon: ‘relaxen’, ‘chillen’,
‘killen’ (yes really!)
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