Today I woke up to a light rain, and since I was going to Nürnburg with some friends I decided to buy my first Umbrella. That’s right, I’ve been in Germany for almost 4 months and I just purchased my first umbrella (Theresa you owe me 2 euros and 40 cent). I’m very impressed that I’ve gone that long without having to get one, but the main reason for that could be, no rain, and when it does rain, I suck it up!

Before I set out to buy the Umbrella this morning, I was taking my daily morning shower and enjoying the hot water, when I realized that my little shower platform was overflowing with water, because my shower curtain (which is about a foot to long for my shower, I lack the scissors to cut it) had clogged the drain. I quickly turned off the shower to step onto my bathroom floor and be standing in an inch of water (I wasn’t in a very good mood after that). I guess that’s what happens when you’re not totally awake after a night of dancing. My bad!!

I have survived my first week of University. I didn’t think it was all that bad actually. I feel that I have a rather light load, and I’m going to have tons of extra time on my hands. I’m still not sure on all the classes that I’m taking, but I’m trying to take something between 7 and 8 classes. All classes are offered once a week and are only 2 hours long. Ok, that’s a lie; they are actually 90 minutes long. But when registering for a class (ok you don’t really register either) it says that the classes starts at a certain time and it ends at a certain time, but really they start 15 minutes after that certain time and end 15 minutes before the other certain time. Are you getting me? 5 of the classes that I’m planning on taking are offered through the ‘Sprachen Zentrum’ at my university and then the other 2 or 3 are just generic classes.

So along with the University starting, the first semester parties start as well. On Tuesday was the first with party of the semester for all University students. It was called PARTYicipate. And it was put on by the University at a few of the clubs/bars in the ‘Insel Stadt.’ It was one wild, crazy night, and I just could help but think that CSU would never even think of putting on a party like this for its students. Then on Friday was the next University party. It was actually help in one of the University buildings. And I know for a fact that nothing like that would ever happen at CSU. I mean you can’t even get a beer at a CSU football game, and here I am, able to buy what ever alcohol I want and drink it while dancing, trashing the place (and when I say that I mean that there is glass all over the floor and people are smoking, even though it’s not allowed, remember though I’m not included in the trashing the place, it’s the ‘other people’) and having a great time inside a University building. Lets just face it; they have a lot of faith in their students that nothing will ‘really’ get destroyed.