Monday, Monday, Monday. Usually people hate Mondays, but Mondays in Salzburg (as well as every other day of the week) are spectacular. The weekend wasn't too action filled, I did a lot of relaxing and studying. In fact, I memorized the entire continent of Europe in both English and German. Pretty cool, right?
Today was a nice day class-wise. I had to perform a soap opera skit with Learose and Jeremy that we wrote over the weekend. It was titled "Scandal in Euoropa Kolleg" (that's where we live). It turned out to be pretty entertaining and I think that we did a nice job with it. Our professor and the rest of the class seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. We started reading our first German play today too. We only read a page or two, but we have to continue reading it for homework. I'm pretty excited since I have never had the chance to read a full text in German before. We also had our second small test today. It was pretty easy, and there were only a couple of questions that I wasn't sure about. Studying in a group over the weekend for it definitely helped me out quite a bit.
Yet another great thing about today was that we received our second food allowance for the trip. Everyone headed out to the grocery store as soon as we got out of class and loaded up on food for the week. I've been going to a new grocery store that is one bus stop down from where I live and they have a much bigger selection of food to choose from as well as better deals on most of the food there. I've been eating a lot better lately now that I am finally settled in and I am getting more and more used to cooking with only a stove top. Tonight I had an apple with nutella, two tomatoes with a big ball of mozzarella, two massive poppyseed rolls, and a sandwich with pork and sauerkraut that I made out of one of the rolls. It was a lot of food to eat on my own, but the entire meal probably only cost me a total of 2-3 Euro.
I've been on a chocolate kick lately since there are a ton of different kinds of chocolate here that are amazingly delicious. While I was at Merkur (the new grocery store), I was able to buy a few different kinds of chocolate and the ones that I have tried have been great. There have been ones filled with yogurt, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, marzipan, and even ones with rum and flavored liqueur. The ones that I had tonight had an orange liqueur in them, but they were a little too strong for my liking and I had to share them with other people. There were also some the other day that were filled with a Bailey's-type of liqueur and those were the best without a doubt.
Other than that, not much else new is happening. My German is getting better each day and we are finally getting more homework so that we can keep busy when we aren't in class. It's still not too overwhelming though, and it is a nice change of pace from having computer science homework that takes hours or days to complete.
I think that's all for now. Actually, I lied. There are more new pictures on the OU site. To see them, use the link at the right of the page. When you are on the OU site, you will see a bar at the left with links for each week. If you click on week 1 or week 2 you should be able to see pictures.
Thanks again to those of you who leave comments. I really do love reading them! I'll try to write again soon.
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Ah, you discovered Nutella. They love it there. In France you can get crepes smothered in Nutella. What a GREAT combination - chocolate and hazelnuts!
I check your blog once or twice a day from work or home, always looking for another fascinating update. Keep them coming.
Hi Matt. It's Aunt Patty. Glad to hear you are having a good week. You're becoming quite the eater over there, huh? Maybe you can reenact your soap opera for us when you come home. Not much is new here. It's warming up this week (in the 60's). School is fine. So is Crate. Take care and I'll talk to you later. Oh, your dad found a new addictive game to play on game show network. I've taken over their computer. Love you!
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