Oh man, this trip is going to be pretty excellent! Let me name the ways:
-my roommate (whose name is Harold), is from Guatemala. It seems he´s actually pretty similar to me in that he doesn´t party much, keeps the place clean (both apparently rarities among the dorm residents), loves music (playing guitar, drums, and bass), and he´s been here studying Industrial/Mechanical engineering for two years (shoutout to my various IE/ME friends from school!). The only thing I´ve found difficult so far is that his computer (which he´s been nice enough to allow me to use) is spanish, so many of the keys are in different places! It´s going to be an excellent month though.
-This morning, we took our placement tests, and I got into level B1,2 (level 6 out of...14 I think). I placed fairly evenly to a little ahead of most of our group though, so I hope it´s not too hard!
-Then we went hiking through a bunch of vineyards north of town, up this hill with a great view of the city. It was definitely a healthy climb but we only covered a couple miles round trip. It was also exceedingly hot and humid (90ish would be my guess), but don´t worry, I´ve downed about 2 Liters of water today.
-Foodwise today was also pretty good. Schnitzelsandwich (fried chicken sandwich), Fanta (much different than that in the States), and an excellent dinner featuring assorted sliced cooked meat (ham, pork loin, chicken) with assorted brot (bread) and kase (cheese). Naturally, since we were hiking through vineyards, dinner was served with (we assume) a local red and white wine as well as grape juice. I could only down one glass of red wine...so I guess wine isn´t really my thing.
Well, tomorrow´s another day- I think the only thing planned is a city tour, which should be pretty fun! The place is hyped up for Saturday´s start of the Eurocup and there are banners, gear, painted busses, etc, etc. Tomorrow, I think I'm going to look into tickets to see The Sound of Music, The Barber of Seville, and/or My Fair Lady at the Volkstheatre this month. Interested in joining me?
1 comment:
How do you manage to get to all of these foreign lands? It's so cool!
Sounds like a great hike, even with the intense heat and humidity. It's starting to sound like a good ol' Virginia hike!
Anyway, I hope you take that time to see the different forms of government that are over there and see how different they are from ours; I would much like to see how different they are.
But yeah, have fun!
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