This one is boring.

Once again, two weeks to cover, this time rightfully so. I ve been doing a hell of a lot, but not much of it is noteworthy, it all involves me and a book and a dictionary and often grinding teeth. From the moment classes started last Monday until, now, I’ve just worked worked worked, which is great, can’t say I’m not learning, but man. It certainly doesn’t make for an interesting story.
All of my classes are amazing. The biggest I have is 15 people, the smallest, six. Six students, two professors. We sit around a table, and talk about the psychology behind how poetry transports emotions. I talk quite a bit in my classes, which I’m happy about and have to keep up. I have soo much reading to do and it goes oh so slowly, but it’s all extremely interesting reading, and it’s getting easier. Sometimes, for example, I now find a sentence in which I don’t need to look up every single word.
Progress is being made.
Yesterday, in my Novelle class (German short stories), the teacher started reciting a German poem and she asked us to tell her what it was and who it was by, if we knew (sidenote: my teachers just recite stuff left and right. They love what they do). Anyway, I knew what it was almost immediately, so I told her. The one American kid in the class of Germans knew the poem, it felt great, I turned heads (it was Der Panther, by Rilke. Thank you Dc. Carroll). Anyway, that was a nice, impressive five minutes in the class for me. I then commented on something else and defiantly proved that, though perhaps I know a poem, I can’t speak the language. In my language class we read an essay by Mark Twain about the German language. It’s entertaining and well written. If anyone is interested, it’s called “The Terrible German Language.”
My one break last weekend was pretty cool. I went to a café, one that, after eight o clock, turns off the lights and hands out candles. It was so cozy, I stayed there until they closed.
I played American football with some of the students where I teach this week, that was a blast. They were surprising good.
Unfortunately I have nothing exciting to share. My balance has been broken the past two weeks. But not today! Today I do no work.

View from my class room.

The University.