So I've been in Tübingen well over a week now and every day I'm getting more used to it. I talked to everybody in the family yesterday, which was great. I video-chatted with Selena long enough to see my little nephew Txanton, who is three weeks old now and seems happy, if happy can be indicated by lying on a pillow contently and smiling.
Skype is the coolest thing ever - I can call any landline or mobile phone in the United States from my computer for the steep price of two bucks a month.
I'm still going strong on my TESOL course, knocking out a unit a day. At this pace I'll be done by August 31st.
I confirmed my 'Blind Booking' flight - out of eleven possible cities, they chose London for me to visit. So I'm going to London on September 7th! I'm going to try to see some serious theater during my four day trip. It's the first of hopefully many European trips I take during my time in Germany.
I've been socializing a little bit - Claire took me to a housewarming party that one of her friends was hosting. I met a lot of cool people, drank a lot of beer, and woke up with a wicked hangover the next morning - apparently I'm not used to the potency of German beer.
My roommate Anne has been including me in random things she does with her friends - we had cake and coffee yesterday (that's a very German thing to do on a Sunday, they tell me) and today she invited me to come down to the University and have lunch with her friends in the cafeteria, which was very fun.
After lunch today I went and visited the Brechtbau, which is the second-language learning building on campus - they're also home to the Provisional Players, who are an English speaking theatre troupe who produce one or two plays a semester. I emailed them as soon as I got home and asked how I can be involved. A little theatre would make me so happy right now!
Here is a picture of the Brechtbau. It doesn't look like much. The next picture is the law building. It was my first time walking around campus, which is very pretty. Everything in this town is so beautiful.
When I meet Germans, they always ask me "Why Tübingen? It must be so small compared to Kansas City." It's a weird stereotype that living in bigger cities is always better than smaller ones. Nobody can understand why somebody would come to Tübingen, which makes no sense to me as this town is one of the prettiest and coolest places that I've ever been.
Here are pictures of the town hall and a nearby fountain:
No comments:
Post a Comment