2 Week Update

Hi everyone,

Things are well here, the weather is bad, but it's still a lot of fun, and better than the heat, for sure. Yesterday we went to visit some water castles in the area. Here's the link to the album, Water Castles in North Rhine Westphalia. I also posted a view videos on Facebook, but unfortunately it doesn't give me the link... hmm...

This weekend I am either going to go to Essen or Osnabrück. I haven't decided yet. Next weekend I will be in Ingolstadt and Munich, YAY, I can't waiiiit to go there. It will be a long weekend next weekend. I am leaving school Thursday at 10:30 to catch a train at 11:30 so I will have to pack everything Wednesday. It is a loooonng ride though, 5 hours and 20 minutes, estimated, by train.

We are working a lot with prepositions in my class and it is soooo hard! Sometimes it is discouraging when it doesn't make any sense to me, but then I remember that I have never been taught any of this stuff. I didn't take very many semesters at UCF. I am making it my goal to learn all those verbs and their appropriate prepositions... an example is this:

Scientists don't often die of tropical diseases (what we would say)

in GERMAN, they say...

Scientists don't often die AT tropical diseases

STUPID stupid stupid, it really makes no sense, but I have to learn it at some point. I will just memorize it all, I suppose.

I made my own pillow yesterday! Before now I was using my little travel pillow, since the one I had was flat and huge... I rolled it up and put it in my pillowcase from home, with another folded up blanket and it's pretty much a pillow now, it's SWEET. Life with Heike is quirky yet cool. She has a couple cool friends that come over and they are all really nice. Some old, some young. I think I will make a video tour of the apartment when I get a chance... so you guys can see my living conditions, lol... tonight I'm meeting some friends from school.

The Germans eat a LOT of carbohydrates. For example, yesterday I had a "doughnut" for breakfast, tortellini and roast potatoes for lunch, and pasta for dinner. TERRIBLE, I know, but I don't feel any physical effects. I am taking vitamins though, so maybe that's why.

For some reason these postings have not been updating to Facebook in a timely fashion, I have to find out why...!

Well that is it from me for now, I will post again soon if something interesting happens!

Love,
Caitlin