day 35

day 35

it is september

this past week has been my highest spending week of them all totaling 70.23 euro paper money and 115.63 euro on the credit card unfortunatly this week should be expensive on my credit card as well i expect to get a rail pass for austria and italy $420 and a helmet for vienna. i think i will need it more there being its a city and cars will be about. i plan to buy the helmet online and send it to the central building and pick it up when i get there along with my rail pass.

not much happened today. i woke up cleaned the kitchen came here and typed some then went back out to make lunch and found tom mopping the floor. said "du hast ien map gefunden" (you found a mop) and he said "nien ich habe es gekauft" (no i bought it) then we went on about how disscusting this place is and how the cleaning lad doesn't actually clean she just takes our garbage.

thomas has become accusstumed to my making spagehitti every day. i surprised him yesterday by using garlic powder and beef boulioun in my sauce. i surprised him more today by making stirfry. i have 2 eggs left i plan to have one for breakfast to marrow and make stirfry again tomarrow. then i will have to live with spagehitti and rice with boulioun and garlic powder (still a step up from what i had last month. i think my need to save as much money as possible on food was a symptom of culture shock. i think i'm getting over it now. i'm still dutch but i'm not quite as hyperactive about it as last month anymore. i expect to spend 3 euro a week now of food well actually thats just averaged out i have most of the food i'll need for the rest of the month in my closet already. i just need to get 2 more packs of spagehitti and one more box of rice.

on monday i'll retake the placement test and eat lots of cresants (they have cresants in the waiting room) hopfully i'll test in to B2 (two levels higher than what i just finished.) then that night i will eatdinner with the central group and emily (apparently she lived in my house last semester) this will be her first month here. then on tuesday i will eat breakfast (and steal lots of rolls butter and jam) then find out who is in my class. then i will learn german and prepare for vienna. there should be less people at goethe this month because most othere schools around the world are starting about now so they are all going back to there respective schools. which means classes might go at the pace i want them to go.

i looked into train stuff for vienna i have choices between getting
a semester ticket (lasts all semester) for 117 euro
a monthly ticket 45 euro for each month
a weekly ticket 12,5 euro for each week
and a daily ticket 5.00 for a day

since i will have a bike and the city is not that big i think i will go without the semester ticket. however if the streets get ice and unridable i may consider getting a monthly ticket for the last month of two. and for the days or weeks that it is raining i can get weekly or daily tickets. the amount of time to ride to anyplace seems comperable to the time to take the train there + i can leave at any time and not wait for the train.
even walking would take alittle less than an hour to get to classes so if i wanted i could get an umbrella and walk to class if its raining or snowing.