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And am failing utterly.
So I'll say this... Remember Senigal? Small hot country somewhat more sothern then you would think considering they sent a team to the Winter games. If you define one man as a team, that is. Though every country has the right to send someone i guess... someone to fight for the glory and honor of their country as they put it here. Though I have to admit that I find it amusing that the senigal's single representive at the winter games isn't even from Senigal. He's from Austria. Who'd have thunk it? |
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Update: München #4
So I did it. After three years of solid study I finaly went to the Hoffbrauhause and drank a liter of beer (So please excuse any typing errors I am about to make). In the past three years Ive been to Germany 4 times and everytime that I expressed an intrest in seeing this bastion of German 'culture' I was greeted with boos and jeers. The Germans I knew (mostly from the east and north) were enterly oppposed to Bavaria and everything to do with it. They dispised the fact that it was held in America (and most of the world I think) as a typical example of German culture and its citizens were considered to be typicaly German. But dispite this I had to go. I had to sit down in the admitedly Disney-esque beer hall and drink one of those ungodly large glasses of beer. But why? What made me do it?
I thought about that alot as I was attemping to down my beer in as effecent a time as possible. (Well I was really thinking about more what I am going to say to an exgirlfriend of mine when she shows up tomorrow... things didnt end that well...) And I realised that my friends rejection of Baveria and my intrest were exactly like my european friends obbsession with everything typicaly american, I am talking about cowboy hat/boots, the old west/ and country music, and my rejection there of. I cant stand all the typical assumption about what america is made of and what americans intrest themselves in, and there for avoid them at all costs. Much like my german friends do about german sterotypes.
A bit later, as I was perusing the gift shop and all the assorted kitch you would expected to find, I realised that my intrest in the Hoffbrauhause and the more sterotypical side of German culture reflected back on me. It definded me as a tourist. The very fact that I wanted to do exactly what everyone else does (At least every american) defined me as an american, as a tourist, as a German student. I spent three years of my life studying this language and trying to give my self the ability to live in another country and now, instead of associating myself with the real culture (which I normaly do when I am in east Germany) as opposed to the sterotypical cultural image we have back home, I was right in the middle of it. I was right in the middle of what were are supposed to believe Germany in like.
Then I saw it. I saw that blue and white t-shirt that everyone, and I do mean everyone who has ever visited this shrine of alk. abuse has bought. I have always wanted one of those HB T-shirts. Everytime I passed someone on the street wareing one I wanted to have one too, wanted to say "look Ive been there too!", I wanted to say "I love that culture so much I learned the language!" but as I stared at that shirt I realised that if I bought one I would be helping fuel the sterotype that all of my friends want to fight agenst. I would be perpetuating the culture that embarisses many of the people who are closest to me (many of whom come from bavaria). Just like I feel embarisesed when people make jokes about cowboys, country music, and bush here in Europe.
So did I do it? Did I help perpetuate the myth of Germany? Did I sterotype myself as a German student, as a wannabe-part-of-the-culture-fanboy and buy the t-shirt? Nope... I stole my stein instead.
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So last night there was a bit of an international get together. Meaning the Uni pitched in for a couple of bottles of bad wine and a case or two of cheep beer and told the exchange studnts to have some fun. Not being the type to disapoint we showed up in droves and made short work of the alloted alk. (I.e. by stuffing it in our bags and running as fast as we could) Around midnight we all decided that a tea would be a good thing (we had recently heard that we had hit the -20 mark) as it would delay the walk home, and so we headed to a freind of mines apartment to partake. After a rousing 2 hours of poltical debate I decided to make my way home and went out into the freezing weather. Now people have always said that I have a talent for screwing things up and it hate to admit it but history seems to be on their side. As I left Gioia's appartment I had a sudden sinking feeling. I realised that I couldn't find my keys in my pocket. I franticly searched through every pocket (all 12 of them) but to my dismay I couldn't find a single object even resembling a key. I quickly ran back to my freinds apartment but the door was already latched and her name wasn't written on any of the buzzers making it difficult to page her. After considering my options for a couple of minutes (and pondering why I had never bought a warm coat when i had the chance) I decided to call a friend of mine and see if I could get her to let me into her building. I called, woke her up, (I was 3 AM) appolgised and right as I begain to explain the situation I heard a sound that would have made my blood run cold if it hadn't already been frozen solid:I heard my cell phone discharge because the battery was empty.
Now the next couple mintues do not bare reporting (mostly because I didn't even know I could sware that well) sufice to say I ran the 20 mintues back to my dorm and began pounding on the windows in an attempt to wake someone and get out of the mind blowingly cold air. To my dismay my efforts were for not and I sat down on a snow mounds next to the door. Ironicly enough it was warmer then the air tempreature. After another couple minutes enjoying the calm of the night (only broken by fits of swaring that I occasionaly let slip out) I remembered that the computer labs at the Uni are alwasy open and that I could take refeuge there. So I readyed my self for another jog though the freezing night air and ran to the school.
Placing my gloveless hand on the medal button to buzz the securty gard was, I can safly say, one of the more unplesent evens of my life but I knew that soon I would be in the warmth of a computer lab, surrounded by the warm neon glow of moniters, so it was worth a little pain and a couple layers of skin left on the knob. I buzzed and buzzed and buzzed and after about 10 minutes of buzzing I realised at the same time that my hands were turing purple and that the night watchman was probably taking the night off. Not knowing what to do ( and wanting at least to generate some friction heat) I began walking.
I had been outside for about an hour at this point and the shaking was making it hard to keep of the stream of profanity that was pooring out of my mouth so I quieted down and resigned myself to the fact that I was porbably going to be outside till dawn. Then I saw it... around the corner from the Uni was a small, warmly lit sign reading "24 hour banking". I franticly grabed for my wallet and to my relief fround my debt card. I timdly approched the door and, expecting the worst, inserted my card in the entrance slot. Success! The door slid open and I was in the ATM cabbnet of the Känten Sparkasse. Not wanting to think much more I wedged myself inbetween the ATM and the heating pipes and promptly feel asleep.
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So yesterday I was sitting in a cafe with my Sprachkurs, having a typical Austrian cultural experance when we suddenly noticed flashing blue light comming in through the windows. The police were escorting something, that much we could tell, but no one was sure what it was. After the police cars were a group of jogers and then a series of large LKWs with DJs and dancers doing what you would typicaly expect. This litte 'love parade' lasted a couple of minutes and then exentualy turned the corner and disappered from view. We sat there and talked about it but no one could really make sence of what we had just seen. I craned my neck a bit and looked up the street to see if anything else was comming. And sure enough about 100 meters removed from the main procession, unescorted, were three joggers carrying the olympic torch on its way to italy. That was unexpected. There was no advertisement, no real anouncement. No one knew the torch was comming through Klagenfurt yesterday.
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So as I was wondering around the many great political book stores in Potsdam I found something intresting... something that one can only find in a used book store. A small 100 page booked called "Aus ersten Hand: Demokarite in der DDR". It was publisched in 1969 in the DDR and was ment to be ship to the west in an attempt to "inform" the west about what life in the DDR was was really like. The first chapter is actualy an attempt to convince the citizans of western Germany that they didn't actualy live in a democratic state because, of course, democracy has never existed in a true sence, rather what we have always called democracy was a sinister, orginised effort by the rich of the world to dominate the poor. And this has been going on since the Greeks created the word. I love the history of DDR and am actualy kind of disapointed that that hasn't really been a topic in my studies (hint! hint! hint!) but I think I'm in the right place to learn something about it. All I have to do is go to a video rental store, because there are only two topics in German movies and that's one of them.
Another reading recomendation...
"Autonome in Bewegung" Its a book (more a text book really) produced by 5 left wing thinkers documenting the Punk, Left wing radical, and general Autonome movements from their birth in the student revolt of 68 and tracking their development through the founding of the Greens, the house squatings during the 80s and 90s, and all their general insanity up to the present day. Its a great read, very informative, with some of the coolist pics I have ever seen. Very much worth a read if your intrested in the more rebellious side of history.
19. Jan 2006 @ 13:36
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So Saturday was the UniBall and I have to admit, I was a bit impressed. Apparently they had spent the first week after the brake completly rebuilding the Uni to throw an end of the year gala. It was obvious that the decorations came from a theater company but despite the shoddy construction it still was impressive. They rapped evey room and hall way in pink and red fabric giving the impression that you were really in a giant tent. The Aule was transformed into a resturant that could easily seat 500 with a ball room dance floor in the center with a 15 piece jazz band planing your normal afair of 60s Rat Pack standards. As the Tent branched out they errected a series of other dance floors playing a mixture of music that could suit everyones tastes. Though I question the DJ who thought that the Baywatch theme was dancable, not to mention the Muppet theme song. I enjoyed that one but I think most of the europeans in the room (to be read as everyone else) was a bit confused.
But the center attraction of the night was an actual tent they built in the center court yard that could have comfterably firt a two ring circus (with elephants) There wasn't a dance floor inside, but rather a casino and two real bars and assorted food stands. Also the guest at the ball weren't the typical UniParty crowd. There were a fair share of students but then also many people from Klagenfurt and really most of Kärnten.
All and all (and esp. because of the strict dress code) the night had a fun flair that I never would have thought possible from a university event.
In other news the test period is starting soon. Though for most of my normal classes I just have an oral test with the professors that I don't have to take care of until after the brake.
17. Jan 2006 @ 18:30
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So... haven't updated in a month. Time to correct my lazyness.
(Give me a brake... I don't have a computer anymore so its hard to get around to updating this)
I am in Germany and have been for the past three weeks. I was supposed to be home in Austria yesterday but because I missed a bus (I got in the airport express as opposed to the flughafen Tegel bus which takes 40 minutes longer and thusly missed my flight)I'm still here and will be tonight until I take a train to Klagenfurt. Because of this I'll almost miss the entire first week of classes but oh well.
There was a mix up with my loan and hopefuly it will be resolved. UNI initaly denyed that I was a student (all right all right they were just confused as to my status, but denyed just has a better ring about it don't you think?) and hopefuly now that they know I am taking classes they'll push that through.
I applyed to work at Waldsee, the sommer German program for kids, and I hope they take me for what ever little ammount of time I can work after I get back from Austria.
just a quick summery of what I've been up too the past month. More will follow when I'm back in good old Österreich.
ciao papa,
-Aaron
11. Jan 2006 @ 12:01
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So as expected it's been awhile since I've updated. I'm lazy I know.
Most major chance since the last update: A meter of snow in the last two days. There was a group trip on saturday to Salzburg and on the way back it started snowing.... alot.... so much so that the train stoped for a half an hour about 40 KM outside of Klagenfurt. I was asleep at the time but the other internationals (There were about 60 of us on the train) decided to throw a party and raided the dinning car for drinks. I woke up, joined the party, and after about 30 more minutes the train started moving again. When we got back to klagenfurt everything was ground to a halt. There were no personal cars on the road and most of the buses werent running or so we were told. When we got back to the dorms, I discovered a group of students (mostly other Americas) on the roof of the dorm, building a snowman, so I joined in and after about an hour of work we had a nice look out pearched on the roof shared by the dorm and a resturant called UNIwirt. Oliver, the house manager, wasn't happy and tryed to find me (he always finds me because no other American can understand what he says... he can't speak English, can't speak Hoch Deutsch, just Käntnerish) but as luck would have it he just rain across my roommate who didn't know what he was saying.
Next week is the Krampuslauf here is klagnefurt and I'm not sure what I think about the tradition. I saw someone dressed up as a Krampus in Salzburg and he, as the tradidtion goes, was wacking people very hard with a switch made of some kind of hard branches. Now I know a little wack every now and then can be amusing but this guy was really hitting people hard and you could tell some of them werent amused. I'm told that this weekend there will be about 600 Krampuses roaming the streets with licences to smack you as hard as you like, dump you drink on the streets, and frighten your date (if you have one). I don't know what I think of that but hey I have to see it just once if I'm really going to get to know this country.
-Aaron
28. Nov 2005 @ 10:43
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Anyway here I am again. It's started raining again here which means we probably wont see the sun for a week or so. I had hoped to do something outside today but since that doesn't seem to be an option I think Valerie and I are going to go to a coffee house for a couple of hours before my Capoeria class. This have been going well here for the most part except for some problems I've been having with the "hausleiter". I think I mention earlyer that he has decided that I am responsible for everything that goes wrong here when it has to do with the english speaking students. Well someone did something very stupid the other night and even though I wasnt there he said he was thinking of asking me to leave. After a little arguing he kindly agreed to let me stay.
Thing are getting better here in terms of people speaking German. The americans and many of the forien students are starting to use more German in they're daily lives which means people don't think its so weird that I try only to speak German now. I think there was ( and some degree still is) a bit of culture shock when we all got here. Though many of the non-english speaking internationals are still only speaking english because well... as they say they don't like German and are only here to learn more english. Odd choice of countrys for that if you ask me.
I'm thinking about finaly getting around to uploading all my pictures so far. I think that's about 500 or so photos to it's going to take awhile but I finaly have a website for it.
So just incase anyone who was thinking of studying here was wondering about the work load I do have to say that this is the easyist semester I've ever had. Even though I am taking 20 credit hours there is much vacation time that I don't really attend class that much. In the last couple of weeks I've only had three days of class. Most of my classes haven't even meet because of hour the 4 holidays feel. It's kind of annoying because I really want to learn Russian and I haven't had that class in two weeks! In total I'm told there are 56 national holidays in the year all or most of which cancel school.
-Aaron
P.S. For those who may come next semeter they are raising rent here by 20 euro a month. Just incase you were wondering.
7. Nov 2005 @ 15:39
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Okay I just got done with 2 hours of russian class and I can only say that, if I ever thought German was a hard language, I now miss its simplisity. But taking a forien language in a forien langauge really helps both languages I think.
It's beautiful here at the moment. Fall peaked last week and now everything is slowly dieing. Perfect Halloween weather. And the Uni is having a halloween party meaning I don't have to be the only one out there, costumed, making a fool of myself.
I think the most important thing when traveling is to look up. I noticed the other day that when I walk I have a tendency to keep my eyes on the ground and not look around. But really everything is so different here that I miss most if not all of the color of the country. I miss those little details that make everything so much more intresting. It sounds like a group of us are going to Budapest this weekend and I must remember not to study my shoes while there!
So classes have really gotten into full swing and the systesm ( as is expected) is horridly confusing but I've gotten the hang of it. Though one of my profs., while speaking wonderful Hochdeutsch, insists on speaking as slowly and complecatedly as possible. One would think that the retarded tempo would help me in understand the rather complecated subject matter (it's a modern lit. class) but in fact it really makes it more difficult. He speaks so slowly that by the time he finishes his sentences (they normaly have about 5 clauses... I counted) I've gotten distracted and am somewhere else.
Hmmm that's all for now but I have to relate the story of my one day of illegal work in a Bar downtown next time I update.
-Aaron
19. Okt 2005 @ 12:21
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I am getting more and more frustrated with my living conditions and this is mostly due to the fact that despite our announced goal of learning German most international students here seems reluctant or unable to carry on a german conversation. Anytime there is more then two people together the language of choice is english which makes truely incorperating German into your mind difficult. Further the Austrians or Germans who live with us seem rather reluctant to speak English. Their first inclination when they learn you are from America is to speak english and even if you ask to speak German most insist upon speaking english. I've gotten a couple to speak only German with me but it took a week of pretending I didn't speak English.
What I had first planned to do was to stop speaking english after a week of living here but I've discovered that, if I live in this dorm, it's impossible to do that and still be social. I tryed and ended up just sitting alone in my room and reading the german books I picked up in the town center. I hope that, with the start of classes tomorrow, I will get the chance to meet some more Austrians and have more chances to use German in my daily life. But really if I'm going to stay here for a year and really learn the language then something needs to change.
Also remind me to tell you all about our run ins with the Hausmeister... only one of them involves the Police!
-Aaron
2. Okt 2005 @ 23:48
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Yet another example of austrian office effecnciy. I need to visit three offices in the next couple of days in order to regesture for classes. All of them are only open from 9-12 each day. I have class from 9-12 each day. In order to regester for one of the classes I need an offical stamp that I can't get until I pay 15 euros in student fees. In order to pay the fee I need to get a bank account because it isn't allowed to pay in cash or cheque. So I regestured for a bank account today but it will take a week before I can use the account. Further after I pay the 15 euro in debt I will have to wait another week before I am allowed to regester because apparently it takes that long for all the paper work to come through. This gives me a grand total of two weeks before I can regester for classes and they start next week. Go Austria.
This last weekend was really quite something. First off I walked into the town on Saturday and visited a Paul Klee exibit at the local city art gallery. The exibit was amazing. I've seen some of Klee's works in books before and kind of liked him but I was blown away by what was there. The art gallery, from the outside, looks quite small but once you get inside you realise that it is a very large and very well equipt (for a town this size) gallery. They had easily 100 works from all though out Klees life and I found some pieces I've never seen before but really enjoyed. It's now safe to say I'm very down with Klee.
Second, a friend of mine drove me to an observation tower about 15-20 KM outside of town. At first comming up to the tower I was a little hesatant (lingering acrophobia and an inate misstrust off all toruist locals)but the view from the top was breath takeing. From the town of Klagenfurt its self you don't really get a sence of the mountians around you. I thought I could see some high peeks before but upon reaching the top of the tower I realised that there are whole other teers of mountian behind the ones I could normaly see. From the town they're always covered in cloud but from the top of the tower you could just make out their hazy outline. What really is impressive though is that they go off in all directions. It's like the lake is just a central basin, a low point that sunk down in the range, surrounded on all sides by the mountian peeks. I hopefuly got some good pictures and if they turned out I'll link them to this Blog.
-Aaron
26. Sep 2005 @ 15:41
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One thing about austria that to an american seems kind of silly is how relaxed they are burocraticly. I mean like Germany there is alot of paper work you have to go through but its all done at a more relaxed pace. No one really thinks it's nessassiry to let you know in advanced what will be required of you. Rather they just tell you a time to show up and tell you when you ask about what going to happen that it's not that important and not to worry about it. When really you'll be required to fill out as many forms as humanly possible and have to proviced 20-30 types of ID. Take for example out entree program. As an exchange student in Klagenfurt you are part of at least 3 different programs/offices. The first and most important one is the BIB (Buero fuer internationalbezehungen) which is the actual exchange office, second comes the Deutsch in Oesterreich office which is in change of teaching you German, thrid comes the university its self. Now as an exchange student you will not be told that you are a part of all these offices (I had to discover it myself and it only took about 3 hours of chatting with people in each office) but you will be required to fill out all the paper work for each office three times so that they all have copys. Further you also are part of an entree program which is supposed to be the welcome group that gets you acclimated to the new culture and explains how everything works but really they're just drinking buddies. Now this may not seem too complicated but trust me when there are 4 different agencies looking out for you it gets very confusing. To all their credit they do have a "welcome Day" that is supposed to explain it all to us, how the university works, what classes we have to take, how we apply for classes, etc. But the only problem is that its on October 3rd. A week after we regester for classes and 2 days after the semester officaly begins.
23. Sep 2005 @ 14:20
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I've finaly gotten really settled in now and I do enjoy this place. It'd done nothing but rain for days and because of our hight the clouds hang low and it's almost like you can touch them. This town is ringed by a wall of mountins and wenn the rain starts to come in you can see fingers of cloud creep over the tops and sit there waiting. Like they were watching the town drown. It's kind of funny because apparently there was another Klagenfurt at one point. But the people of the town were wicked and sinful (or so I was told) so one days a man came and flooded the town; killing them all. Thats supposedly where the lake comes from. It's kind of fun to think that that could happen again. And this weather is the perfect back drop for such a story.
More people are starting to arive and the place is really starting to breath. There's a mathmatics convention right now and all the new students are starting to sign up for classes so I am finaly confident that I'll meet some people who can teach me something about the German language. On that note I'm going to be interviewed by some local radiostation that is doing a story on international students studying in Austria. There was supposed to be a group of us but something amussing happened and I'm going to have to go it alone. Here's the explination that I got from the guy who set up the interview with our exchance group....
"Du bist leider der Einzige der sich bei uns gemeldet hat. Grund dafür wird wahrscheinlich gewesen sein, dass noch kaum jemand die Mail verstanden hat, sie war ja absichtlich nur in deutscher Sprache."
-You are the only one who agreed to participate. The reason for that is probably becuase no one else understood the email because I only wrote in German.
Heh... whoops. And that email went out to all 40+ of us. Ahh well I guess doing it alone wont be bad...
more later
20. Sep 2005 @ 18:28
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The first real update of this blog. Aaron here. I've been in Austria for a week now and it has been quite an eventful week. Frist off this city is beautiful. Unlike most cities I've spent time in in Germany this city wasn't damaged at all during WW2 so many of the buildings date back too the 1500-1600s. That combined with the mountians give it a much different feel then what I'm used to in iowa. Despite the more southern location it's really cold here. I have to walk around with a jacket on constantly. Though the odd part is that for about 2-3 hours around noon the temperature suddenly jumps a couple of degrees nessitating a change of clothes.
Now two the language part. Before I got to Klagenfurt I spent a week in Potsdamn to get myself used to speaking the language again and everyone I knew there, when they found out I was going to sotheren Austria, thought it was the funnyist thing they've ever heard. Then they begain to tell me about the strange version of German they speak there and how if you aren't a native speaker you'll have no chance of understanding what's going on. SO... with that in mind I got on my night train in Berlin-Wannsee and started the 15 hour trip, south, to parts unknown. Somewhere around Linz I transfered trains and struck up a converstaion with an old man I met in the station. By "conversation" I mean this rather odd looking man (in his 60s/70s and sporting a cowboy hat, western shirt, and riding boots) decided to talk "at" me. I still have no clue what he was trying to say to me and probably never will. Though he doesn't know that. I've found that nodding and agreeing with whatever is said is a good cover up for not understanding whats going on.
A couple of hours after that first failed attempt at comunication I arived in Klagenfurt more then a little nervous for what form of bizzarogerman would greet me. And to my surprise I can actualy understand everyone and more pleasently suprising everyone can understand me.
So on to the university... We started the intensive German class last monday and it's been intresting so far. On the first day we had to take a placement test and the results were a bit embarrising. Our head professor an almost bald actor/german teacher in his early 40s started reading our names off, putting us into our study groups, and when he read off my name promply asked me "Wozu brauschst du eigentlich eine Sprachkurs?"... "Why do you need a language course again?" That basicly set the trend for my experance here so far. Most of the austrians think I am from Northern Germany or Der Schweitz and if they do pick out that I am a foriener have no idea where I am from. I guess it's normal for exchange students to have no grasp of the lanaguage before they get here. Which is probably why everyone in the Dorm (all exchange students) speak exclusivly English. A bit anoying but what can one do. So back to the langague class... the EU has 6 classifications for langauge ability. 1 being no skill and 6 being more or less native speaker. I guess only speaking German at concordia lanague villiages this summer helped because because I scored a mid 5, the highest in the class and over the 4th level requried to study in an Austrian university. So that's been the story more or less of this week. Class every day, about 20 hours in total, reviewing Grammer and getting into the more fine points of usage. It's boring but it helps.
Today's my birthday so I'm going to go out and have some fun tonight. I don't know many Austrians yet but I'm going to call some friends up and see if we can't go start some trouble. If nothing else takling my way out a tricky situation will help improve my comunications skills.
-Aaron
16. Sep 2005 @ 15:10
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endlich sind wir da! ich bin seit zwei Tage da und es ist schon eine interessante Erfahrung geworden. Im Studentenwohnheim wohnen siemlich nette Leute aber fast alle kommen aus Ausland. Statt Deutsch reden sie fast immer auf English. Das ärgert mir ein bischen und ich muss versuchen English zu vermeiden.
11. Sep 2005 @ 16:59
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SO no time to write but as soon as I get a chance Ill update this for real. I just got to klagenfurt today and Val. will get in sometime early tomorrow morning. I should have normal computer access starting on monday so look for more then.
9. Sep 2005 @ 19:33
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No time to update but I'm finaly in Deutschland.
4. Sep 2005 @ 18:21
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So here is it... I Fly out tomorrow. I just got an email from the 'entree' person who will meet me when I get to Klagenfurt in a week or two. I think I'll give her a call tonight. Yesterday I finaly started to get nervous and now I just can't wait to get on that plain in Chicago. One funny thing happened that has made the waiting a bit easyer... today I got an email from the university where they thought that my name was Iron Tilton. Sehr macho nicht war?
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