The Adventure Continues…

Saturday, March 07, 2009 15:30 Dortmund time, 9:30 EST

So until I get internet in my room, I will continue writing my blog entries in my room, then posting them whenever I can go to the library.

Friday had an exciting start—I was woken up when the janitor who promised to clean the flat walked into my room. The poor guy looked quite distraught because of it, and I’m really glad I came into this knowing some German because he didn’t speak any English. He gave me a box full of kitchen stuff—pots and pans, utensils, cups, plates, can opener, corkscrew, etc. then he finished cleaning and left. At about 2:00 Carina picked me up and we met Anna at the Bibliothek (library) to get a library card so I can get on the internet. Then we went to Aldi and picked up a lot of food and a sim card (Carina is giving me her father’s old phone so I can have a phone in Germany).

Friday night we went to Anna’s home and I met a few other girls. We had a few drinks, then we took the U-Bahn (underground train, subway) to the Disko. The Disko was unlike anything I have ever seen before. There were two floors, and we mostly stayed on the second floor where there were three rooms—a really big room for techno music, a smaller room for hip-hop, and another small room for “charts” (hits from the 80’s, 90’s, and now). You can smoke in the techno room, but not in the other two. We started in the Techno room, because that was the only place that people were dancing, then we moved to the charts room after it picked up a little. It cost 6€ to get in, but you get a voucher for a free drink, and the girls introduced me to Bier und Cola (½ beer and ½ coke)—it’s actually very good. They also taught me that if you don’t look someone in the eye when you toast with them, you will have seven years of bad sex :-) I had so much fun, but all of our feet started hurting because the Disko had a dress code where you aren’t allowed to wearing sport shoes—only dress shoes, so we were all in fairly uncomfortable heels.

I am so glad that Carina and Anna are my doubles—they are both so sweet and they basically took me in with no questions. Now whenever they talk about something that they are doing, they always turn to me and say “Of course, you are invited,” and they are the kind of girls that I would hang out with anyway (for those of you at Maryville—they are nerd table quality). It is also really cool because they are both English majors and I’m actually going to be taking some literature classes with them—which will be great. Today I am going to Anna’s flat to meet her parents who are in town, and tomorrow I am going to Carina’s house to meet her parents and eat dinner. I am so glad I came to Dortmund where they have this doubles program, and Anna and Carina are just the best possible match for me :-)

Well, that’s about it…a pretty full day and a half. Actually, Benjamin called Carina when we were hanging out and said if we were bored I could go to the smaller cafeteria and meet the other Americans, but we already had plans and I am yet to be bored here. I haven’t even met any Americans yet—I’ve been too busy with my new German friends, and I’m ok with that.

I will post pictures as soon as I am posting from my own computer...

Tchüss!