So, last week began with the usual 8:15 morning classes on Monday and Tuesday. Ehhh. I can stay awake for Controls on Monday, but only Dr. Furlans wit can keep me paying attention through his class directly afterwards. And Tuesday mornings would be sleep worthy, but I think I will have to pay attention for more quotes.
This week Ali (from Pakistan) , Cagri (pronounced more like sharay; from Turkey), and I went looking for the Hochschulsport to get a semester sports pass and maybe register for a class. We walked down to the building with the workout gym and basketball courts, but could not find the correct door number there. After asking, we were sent back across campus to the same building as the International Office. Upstairs, down-a-level, untergeschoss. Finally we found. Communicating in our broken German we learned that everything we wanted to do had to be done online.
Or travels back and forth did give me a good chance to take a picture though. Blute Spende, or blood donation, they had it going on all week long. I thought about giving, but then decided I did not want to back up the line as I tried to stumble through questioning, or I assume they would have a similar process to the process in the US.
Here Ali, Alex (from Romania), and I were standing in line to get free BVB tickets.
Quite a long line. Some of our classmates, Andres and Miguel (both from Mexico and among the few who do not mistake New Mexico), skipped class and were ahead in line. We learned from them that the BVB tickets were only for Bachelors students. Harumf. Well only a half hour wasted, and we did get decide to go around back to double check and got information to get free theater tickets. So not all bad.
Friday night I went bowling with a group from SMD. Bad picture, but you can still see the American flag painted on the wall. Dominik (from Germany) is standing on the left with his wife Luiza (from Romania) sitting on the far left. The others are even harder to see, but Plamen (from Bulgaria), sitting on Dominik's left, is a great help in learning German. He speaks no English, so I am forced to use what German I know. Great fun and a friendly guy.
Surprisingly, it turns out I know a lot about bowling from those years in the YMCA league. Not something I noticed before, but it was Plamen's first time and some of the others had bowled very little. I tried to help some. My bowling was not too great a 51 in the 6th, but I finished the game with a 123.
Sunday I went with an Erasmus group to Bonn, and met a whole 'nother load of international students. But I am going there again this week for scholarship orientation, so I will write about it after that.
When speaking about producing an orthonormal basis in an infinite vector space (aka performing infinitely many tasks):
"Do the first one in an hour. The second in half an hour. The third in one quarter hour. You will be done in two hours" -Dr. Furlan
It sounds like you are busy all the time. Any time to study? Have you had any good German food? We would like to see pictures of that!
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