Day 18 - Scavenger hunt

Ahh, the joys of waking up late. For the first time since I got here, the BMEN kids had less classes in the day than the Bio-science students. As a result, our first class was our last class and it just so happened to be German with Fenja. We went over colors a little bit (just the eye colors because we need to know them for our visa meeting tomorrow) and then started on the parts of the body. It was awesome, and throughout the course of the class, a weird shaped body was slowly taking shape on the board. When I took a picture, Fenja didn't know what I was doing or why I would want to take a picture of her so called terrible drawing (I think it has charm.) During this class, we all discovered that Fenja has never studied English. Like at all. I'm highly impressed that she's able to follow along with what we say most of the time and answer all of our questions right now. Although I have noticed that whenever we get off topic like asking what animal body parts were for the pre-vet person, we had to rephrase our questions in simpler or more accurate terms so she could answer.

Look at that beautiful person on the board!

At the end of German we were given a packet with a lot of instructions to go around town and get information about the great monuments (of course Beethoven, Cassius and Florentious were on there) and to talk to the German people. In fact, some of the instructions explicitly stated talking to a German and getting to know them. As a result, we found Kevin, a student at Bonn University studying law and had a pleasant conversation with him. We had lunch while planning out our rout to all these places we had to go to, and I was pleasantly surprised that I could get through the German menu without once looking at the English equivalent.

 The student we interrogated for our scavenger hunt. Thank you!!

In front of the Beethoven statue.

Eventually, we got through most of the things in the packet and headed back to AIB to work on the homework and study for the test coming up. In fact, that's really what I should be doing right now, but I literally have no clue about the homework I got on Friday, so I'm taking a break to write this. Anyway, we did homework and some people went to go running at about 5:15 with a group that was created to help get us ready for the Bonn marathon in March. I was going to go, but I wanted to get as much homework done as possible because there were people that could help me and I don't do as well in the little room I sleep in with the bed right there...looking so comfortable and warm. Gah! The test is coming up and luckily we have a review session tomorrow so hopefully I can understand Thevenin's and Norton's theorems before I'm tested over them.

That's really the extent of my day, nothing fancy went on besides the scavenger hunt (which took forever!) Well, I guess not every day can be as action packed as a trip to Cologne right?

Till tomorrow!
Erin Z