day 81

this post is from a while back be sure to look at the next to posts. i posted all the relivant pictures in vienna!

day 81
well yesterday was the first day of actual classes for me. i found out that the music class was canceled because the music prof. (who was on a music tour of japan) came back sick. so i only had german intensive. the german intesive class consists of 16 students and is taught by herr schnell. he reminds me alot of frank stackhower at church he has the same voice and talks the same way. we i found out that two of the people who were in the level below me at goethe are in my class which is kinda surprising but then again i didn't do aswell on the placment test as i could have. however niether of the study. i think that they just reached the first plataue of the language (which is the easiest to get to). the way my german profesor explained it at college is that the first part of any language is easy you learn the vocab and how to construct basic sentences. if drawn on a XY graph with Y being the amount you know and X being time, then it would be a line with a slope of about .5 - 1.5 . then the hard part comes you have to keep going over structure and also learn new wwords and pronunsiation, and all the other stuff that make language hard. this would be best described as a assending sin wave on the XY graph eventually leveling out at fluency. then the even harder part of studing the harder parts of language that even native speakers hate. (i'm not gonna do that part.) we were assigned to write a text about our lives so i plan on writing about how as a child we traveld through america, and the move to minisota, and college and the events leading up to me being in vienna. allong with an explanation of how i am a visual learner and drawing things and writing stuff on the board will help.
after class i went down stairs got my stuff out of the fridge in the central office (i thought i was gonna have music class right after german so i brought a lunch to heat ad eat in class. then i went to the super market to get peppers and carrots. while i was waiting in line i saw some body in front of me with hamburger, so i went back and checked the prices it was about 2.30 for 500 grams i figured i could cut it up and leave it in the freazer and use some for a meal once in a while. so i came home and heated up my dinner and saw an episodeof the simpsons on TV (it was in german) i knew the episode by rote but i didn't understand a word of it in german. and the voices the used were pretty funny they were all high pitched and didn't sound at all like the characters voices in america.
then i cut up the meat and put it in a zipplok bag and froze it. i realized this morning that i didn't compress it at all or wrap it in wax paper so if it does get freezer burn it will happen pretty fast so i'm gonna give my self 3 weeks to use it all. then i will get more and package it properly.
after i choped up the meat i went to the university (which i new was closed) and walked back to my dorm. its a much longer walk than i expected it to be. however i was able to see most of the stuff i don't see on the u-bahn. like grocery stores and so forth. then i came home and went to sleep.
today i woke up and started laundry (i bought laundry coins and laundry detergent yesterday) i should be done now.. ok its in the dryer now. and i plan to make stirfry with meat today because i have eggs that will be going bad in the next week so i have to use them. don't have much else planned for today. just laundry food class food and go to sleep.
we are going on a vienna seminar excursion tomarrow to the vienna museum, i'm gonna check were that is befroe class so i don't show up late
well, i came back to the dorm after class to see if i could get my computer fixed (maggy told me that the tech people were in on tuesday and thursday evenings) i went up to the hiemlieter office (dorm director) and looked at the office hours, she was right the office was open in the evenings on tueday and thursday but from 7 - 9 pm to i made dinner (spagehitti with meat sauce) and then brought my laptop up to see what they could do. i explained that i didn't know how to connect because it was vista not XP or 2000. he said he would take a look he typed in some stuff and without even connecting it to the network he said ok this should work. just click on this and type in your passsword whan you plug it in and it sould work. i cam back and it worked. for some reason at 9:30 it stopped working. i think it may be that they shut the internt down at night or somthing or maybe there was a problem. i'll check again this evening.
new posts and pictures coming soon i'll probably get it done on friday since i'm busy today thursday and saterday and sunday.