I've been running around, catching up with friends (friends!) signing up for classes, submitting assessments from last semester and trying to get on top of admin. Which I am still behind on, but you know - admin is soul destroying! When I arrived here I had made a resolution to make the best of my time here (as I totally frittered it away last semester before the solid German auto-mobile came crashing into my life.) So far I think I've done ok on this front - so I haven't gone to an Erasmus party yet (though I totally meant to - that counts, right?) but I did go on highly spontaneous trip to Hamburg last Sunday and should (hopefully) be planning a trip to Italy with a friend to see our other friend. I know right?! Italy!
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| A London telephone box on the docks of Hamburg. Nope, I couldn't explain it either... |
It has been surprisingly hot here in Leipzig this past week; and I mean shorts and t-shirt weather. I'm not used to this bright thing in the sky called 's-u-n' and feel I should join my fellow students in basking in its glory as a form of worship. Is bowing and offering sacrifices considered too much these days?
I'm drawing and reading like mad (and trying trying trying to find a spare moment to knit!) to keep sane. Although the novel I am reading right now is for a course, it's by Margaret Atwood, and this is definitely not work in my opinion. Drawing gives me something to do, and is actually therapeutic. Take this drawing for example:
Looks kinda bloody? That's because there is a zombie apocalypse happening (in the drawing I mean. If it was actually happening, I'd be running around with whatever pointy thing I could find until the inevitable happened. I am not made for surviving zombies.) In a normal (normal?) zombie apocalypse situation, you would just run right? Right? Wrong! If you are the one poor soul being cornered by an LVB ticket inspector and you don't have a ticket then kiss your chances of escape goodbye. And yes, I am just bitter that I got fined for not stamping my ticket (I had a ticket damnit! I HAD A TICKET) but drawing this helped. A little.
As far as picking up my German is going...well it is going, and much quicker than I expected. But if you ambush me in the street with one offer or another I will just smile politely and say 'nein danke' before running away.
Yes, exactly like the penguins from Madagascar. 'Just smile and wave... smile and wave...'
-Rae
