I feel like today has been blog-worthy. I haven't really done much except had a good day at school and decided that I would start looking for a WG (Wohngemeinschaft - that's German for a living community, i.e. a shared house). The student halls where at the moment is alright, but I don't learn much German or do much else here; uni life in Germany couldn't be more different from uni life in England. There are not frequent piss-ups or socials, it's like they all have work to do or something. And I'm getting WG-envy of friends who live with Germans and hang out with Germans.
Anyway, I emailed a few adverts for places I liked the look of and one girl emailed me back within the hour and told me I could call and sort out a time to come and see the place. She said it was fine if I wanted to speak English on the phone because she's German and used to hate English phonecalls at the beginning. I hate phoning people I don't know anyway, so that was reassuring. Was a bit thrown when a guy answered the phone. Lara didn't sound like a guy's name. He was nice to me though, told me Lara was out and she'd call me back and we had a bit of a chat. I was proud of how well I managed auf Deutsch. I am almost like a competent person!
I shouldn't get excited cos there will probably be lots of competition and they probably won't end up letting me live there but I am ever so excited! At the very least, I am going to meet three Germans a similar age to me.
Speaking of exciting internet networking, I need to thank Maria Cansella for recommending couchsurfer to me; I answered one post on the Bochum group forum and I got three emails from people who immediately want to hang out with me, including getting invited out drinking at the weekend and to a Halloween party. The internet...what an invention...
Dora.
xxx
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