• instead of sleeping in, i went to the donauinsel with jessica, devio, and later ann joined us. i painted and worked on my doodle cup and had some bonding conversation (at least i thought) with devio. more people are accumulating onto this weekend donau bike trip and i really hope everyone ends up coming!!! it would be super fun.
• then we went to mittagsklasse. it is so uncomfortably hot in those rooms. i am definitely going to appreciate air-conditioning soooo much more when i go back to the states, even if we ridiculously overdo it a lot of the time (e.g. the computer lab in franklin terrace, what IS THAT). peter disappeared during the freizeit, natürlich, so much for New Friends i guess. oh well. we practiced more pronouns and direction giving/comprehension, something that i know will be very practical in austria and germany.
I'm getting worried (natürlich) about how slow this class is going. i'm by no means an expert in this material, but we haven't learned anything we didn't do in GRMN 101. everything is really good practice, but if i do somehow make it into a 201 class if i don't know the gramatical points i'm not going to do very well.
• i met my other New Friend Amber (aus meine Abendsklasse) in Schwedensplatz and she took me to the best falafel place (or so they say). it was actually really good, less bland than most falafel pita things i get! and very filling für nur €3,50. we sat by Ruprectskirche (the oldest church in vienna, but not a tourist attraction because it's so much plainer compared to the fantastic buildings, z.b. Stephansdom and Karlskirche etc.)
Amber is from seattle but goes to university near hamburg. i can tell she's an INTP (like me) or something close to that, and those people and i always become uncannily good friends. we're going to see harry potter tomorrow night!!!! before all y'all in america, what up. Amber and I seem to be on the same level in class, but i am sure she is better at interacting with people outside of school. she told me about the differences between Deutsch, Hochdeutsch, and Austrian, and how she and her friends sometimes cannot understand anything the Austrians say. Likewise, sometimes they get snarky about her speaking Hochdeutsch. I hope it will be easier in comparison to here when I go to Hamburg/Mainz, because I think Frau Rhode taught us everything in Hoch. Wishful thinking?
• abendsklasse. We reviewed how to tell time.
• nach - had planned on going to the opening of the international danze festival with jessica, but i really didn't feel like standing and waiting around in the U-Bahn ANY MORE TODAY, switching trains three times, so i got some food at an underground grocery store that actually gave me a plastic bag to carry my stuff in. zum beispiel, when the cashier asked me if i wanted one (i probably inadvertently paid some money for it), this is what it sounded like: "mumbldmlumoentasche?" i know what tasche is. i get a really uncomfortable feeling when paying for stuff like this sometimes. some way that the cashiers look/talk to me like They Know, even if i'm just saying small thinks like "bitte schön" or "danke" y'know. HOW DO THEY KNOW? they totally know.
• i just skyped with my parents and they said i look tired.
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