The day after the walking tour (29/8), I slept in. It was delightful. Since I'd gotten here I had only slept a few hours a night - probably no more than 7 hours. And there was so much stuff going on. After only sleeping 2 hours the night before, I ended up crashing around 11, and didn't wake up again until 1:30. It was glorious. Technically, I did wake up at 11:30, when my slew of alarm clock went off.... but after half an hour of snoozing, I just decided to sleep for the rest of the day. Someone rang my doorbell at 1:30, and I decided that maybe I should get up and do something. I didn't answer the door though because I spent about 5 minutes lying in bed debating what my next move would be, so I assumed the person had left by the time decided to get up.
I lulled around for a bit, watching some German MTV (which is fabulous), making breakfast, and showering. Pretty boring. I could feel that I was likely going to get really depressed if I continued to do nothing and see no one. I was still emotionally exhausted from the day before, and I knew that if I let myself dwell on it, I'd fall into a big depression spell, and I wasn't about to let that happen! So I called Mo, and we decided to go shopping. This was on Sunday. I wanted to get a better jacket for the weather, as my sweatshirt wasn't exactly working out with the rain, and some flat boots that would be good for the bipolar weather. Mo wanted a pillow, so she was down to join. The pillows that our apartments came with are awful. They are the flattest things ever. No matter how much you ball it up, you will wake up with absolutely no head elevation.
So we hopped on the S-bahn and went to Ikea. Closed. Then we went back to Friedrichstrasse. Everything was closed. Except for food. We took a little break at the Fish and Chips place at the station, which is currently my top choice for fish and chips in the city. Their tartar sauce is incredible! And it's only 3 euro for more food than you could ever finish. So delicious! Plus they have this cherry slushie thing. It tastes nothing like American cherry flavored things. I don't quite know how to describe it other than absolutely freaking amazing! After lunch (or I guess it would be dinner, since it was like 6) we just decided to head home. Neither of us were in the mood to go out and do anything, so that was a boring night.
The first day of classes was the next day, so I just chilled in my room for a bit. I headed over the hall for about an hour, but then came back to my room and did my usual day-before-the-first-day thing. I went through all my syllabi and made a list/calendar of all the reading and papers and midterms for the semester. Yes, I do this at the beginning of every new school quarter/semester. I'm a nerd haha.
I've got one more class to go to, and then I'll have been to all of them. So stay tuned... probably later tonight or tomorrow morning, I'll have a post about all my classes!
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