Again, sorry about the delay for the pictures for Paris. If you missed them, they should be posted below this post. Go see them, they are pretty good if I do say so myself. Anyway, yesterday was a rather early day what with getting on the train. We were actually in the main station looking at each other when someone pointed out that we had class in 3 hours. We were sort of in the wrong country though, so it just made the situation really surreal, not to mention the commute was so far! We got on the train and I wrote the blog post, tried to work on homework, and freaked out when I couldn't find my kindle thinking I had left it in the hotel. We arrived into Cologne a little bit late and informed our teacher we'd be a little bit late for class. Luckily it wasn't that difficult to get the next train heading to Bonn and we were on our way. When we got into Bonn, we just missed the tram that would bring us to the nearest stop to our school, and the next one was 10 minutes later, so I walked to school.
When I arrived, Sarah was going over the DHF that had already been turned in with the rest of my group and I caught the tail end of the conversation. The rest of the day was basically working on the DHF and signals homework. It was a really chill day, which was nice for someone who had just come in from and international train. At the end of the day, I went home looking forward to seeing my host family. However, I got about 2 steps into the main living room when my host mom stopped me, saying that Marie was sick with the Chicken Pox and I shouldn't be in the same room so I don't catch them with only 2 weeks left to go before I return home. She also gave me my "rabbits" for Easter, which was really nice of her as I wasn't around for the actual day. After that, I ate dinner with Sophie and since I couldn't hang out in the main living room, I went up to my room to work on more homework.
I didn't get much done. Instead, I talked to my family and my friends, and ended up missing home that much more. I think I finally hit the real homesickness stage. All I want is to eat some good Mexican food with spicy salsa and free water before going home and spending some quality time with my family and pets.
This morning was a rather easy day as well, with the only class being one of the last physiology classes over metabolism. The last one will be tomorrow, and the test on Monday with the final on Wednesday. A week from today I won't have Physiology anymore. Wow. Anyway, the rest of the day was free, so all of us spent it working on our DHF and the homework for Signals that we have due tomorrow. Luckily Sarah was around so we could ask her questions whenever we got stuck...which was a lot. Seriously, that class is difficult and we can get the concepts when she tells us, but we don't really understand them until we do them ourselves once we've struggled to get through only about 10% of the work for a few hours before giving up and getting Sarah to help us.
The whole day passed that day until the night came around. You see, we planned to surprise our professors with a dinner out, so they couldn't know. And I'm pretty sure that they didn't. When Sarah was done helping me out only a few minutes before we were supposed to head over, she said that she hoped I got everything as she wouldn't be around much longer. When I asked why, she said that all the teachers had a dinner date that night, so we wouldn't see them after about 6:30. All the students walked to the Ethiopian restaurant and waited for the professors to get there. They were pretty surprised to see us all at the same restaurant. We had a great dinner and payed for all the food as a thanks for all their help. We were there for about 2.5 hours, and by the time we left the restaurant, it was starting to get dark as it was 9. We all went back to AIB to continue to work on our homework and DHF. And yes, we actually did work throughout this whole time and didn't slack off that much. This is hard stuff that we're doing and requires a lot of work to get done. It doesn't help that we struggle with signals and can spend a few hours painstakingly going through a problem.
Tomorrow is another chill day without much going on. Sorry, no pictures of today, but the Paris pictures below should be enough to make up for it.
Bye!
Erin Z
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