day 63??

day 63

ok yesterday i woke up and rode the train systems to school for oreintation.i took U-bahn 1 to karls platz then u-bahn 2 to scholentor then street cars to the school. three days costs 13.60 euro but i can stay on the train all day if i like. i think 50 euro for a month is well worth it the walk is far to long. also since it was my first time using the train system somthing strange was pretty much garentied to happen. i got on to the second U-Bahn and this guy (who looked like charles manson) was sitting with terable posture in the seat on the other side of the train from me behind me. at one point he just kinda yelled somthing in comprehensible at nobody. then the first stop came allong. the people got off and he doors shut and we were just about to leave when the guy sprang up and upened the door then he leaned up against one side and put his foot on the door so it couldn't close. every one on the train looked at him with distaste. then some othere guy said "in oder aus" (in or out) then pushed the guy out of the door. (two other men stood up to help the pusher if nessissary (if i were a citizen i would have helped the pusher too)) the door caught his arm i think then he forced the door open got his arm out then tried to kick the guy through the open door. the kick fell short by about a foot. then the door closed and the train started to move. at this point the crazy guy started to walk away but half way through turning around decided that he had to fight the pushed some more so he chased the train grabed the handle and the door opened about 2 inches before snapping shut again then the guy chased the train making obseen gestures at the pusher aparently ablivious to the other two men who stood up when the guy pushed him. according to marrie the stop that he "got off" at was well known for having homless and crack addicts sleep there during the night.

after the train insident every thing else went smoothly i found the office two hours early and decided to wait since i had nothing better to do. it was raining so i found a archway to hide in and i decided to see if there was WiFi at the campus i found one but the signal was weak so it took awhile to get on and the url bar couldn't be used to go to websites i had to search every thing through google. so i couldn't post my blog yesterday. but i did get an email off to mom and i checked my mail.

then andrea walked buy and asked if i knew were to go. of course i did. it was half an hour early but we decided to try the door bell any way. then a lady came up and pushed a button that unlocked the door. so we got in. later ruth came by and we got into the office.

the office consists of a security door going into a hallway immediatly on the left is a small kitchen (with washing machine) on the right in a computer room (3 computers(none of which allow google talk)) then about 6 feet past those doors are the doors to the office (right) and the bathroom (left) then after that is the mail area (we each get a document tray with our name on it) then the halway goes through a door way into a lounge if you keep walking you will go into the class room which has a baby grand piano in it.

the lounge is the most intresting room. it has a tv with VCR and couches and chairs behind all of that is a big table on which was all the stuff left behind from last year. i managed to get a spagehitti pan (a pan with a lid with straining holes in it) 2 bowls a big plastic container, a tennis ball, a mug, chop sticks and taco mix.

also before leving schwabish hall thomas had bought a water boiler thing its basically a heating coil attached to a AC cord that you put in water and plug in and the watter eventually boils he didn't want it any more so he gave it to me.

any way the pot and bowls i got wern't cleaned so there were some food particles still in place so last night i used the boiler coil inthe pot and got it near boiling (it took more than an hour) and used the hot watter to get most of the stuff off.

any way after we all got the stuff we wanted we started orientation were we listened to ruth tell us the same things again. and eventually we went to lunch with marrie at the university "mensa" (its like a cafeteria but its cheaper) i had wiener schnitzel it cost 4.20 euro and it wasn't great or terrable . during lunch i looked out the window (the mensa was on the top floor of the main university building) and saw a buetiful church it was breath taking.
then we took a tour of the university buildings i don't have to go to. and then we took a guided tour of the city. (my feet hurt at the end of the day) then we went back to the office and had a hour to do what ever i got online and checked my email. then we went to dinner in a resurant on campus (it was nice, they had there own resturant cat, that we took turns passing around) (glad i didn't have to pay for it though) then we went back to the office to grab our stuff and i went back to my temp dorm. and tried to clean my pot and bowls.

this morning i woke up and said every things gonna be closed on sunday i have to get stuff to eat. so i went out with a list and the intention of buying stuff. then i figured out that i wasn't even sure if i had a kitchen in my temp dorm. so i went back and got the direction from the dorm i'm gonna be living in to the office and worked them backwards to find out were it was and went there. i found it then i walked around it in a outward spiral and found a grocery store (before i left i couldn't find a kitchen so i decided to get only food that was ready to eat cereal and pretzels. also i got sponges and soap so i can clean tonight. then i took the train to the office area then came back to the dorm to drop of my stuff and charge the laptop battery so i can go to the campus and see if i can get on that wifi again.

its strange how kim can get lost so easily ruth gave us directions to the campus that were nearly perfectly consice but kim was still a 1/2 hour late infact i think she tries to be late and blames it on being lost (personally i would admit to being late because of somthing crazy that to being lost) i am amazed how little information most of these people take in about the city during the tour. i didn't hear or understand most of the tour but i was astute enought to know which buildings we were in and what they look like and that we didn't take any turns to get to them. but kim has a nack for asking questions that are obvious and not noticing things.

monday i move to my dorm at 2:00 and on tuesday i have a meeting with ruth about my courses i'm gonna see it i can just go on the concert trips for the music ourse with out taking the music course or maybe take it for audit (i don't wanna have to work to hard in it)

there is so much more to talk about but i either cant remember or am to tired to type about it i'm gonna go to the campus now since my batery is chraged an try to post this and yesterdays and maybe talk to mom and dad.