I finally have internet access in the library at die Universität (I have also become prone to combining English and German to form Deutschlish sentences. I'll try to prevent this as much as possible, or at least explain the words as I write them. I think Universität is pretty straight forward though.)

Most evenings, the school has some activity planned for anyone who wants to take part. Mostly there seem to be themes - Tuesday are film nights, on Wednesday afternoons there are mini excursions in and around the area, Fridays are more social with dancing and partying.

Last night, in one of the giant lecture halls, they showed 'One Day In Europe', a film about four people in four cities. It takes place during the football (European Football, also known as soccer) championships. These five people all somehow end up getting involved with the local police (they're not in their homelands) because they have either been robbed, or are pretending to have been robbed. It's a comedy, mostly because of all the cultural and language misunderstandings. The movie ends on kind of a weird note - I felt it was somewhat unresolved, but I guess that's the type of filmmaking the director wass going for. End of review.
I managed to find an English trailer (I don't know what the sound is like though, I'm listening to Manic Street Preachers instead).



Today, after class, we had a mini excursion! It is Wednesday, of course. We (Adam, Karen, and I) went to Schwetzingen Schlossgarten (Castle gardens). Today is brutally hot out. It was a little chilly this morning when I got dressed, so I figured it might be okay to wear jeans and a regular tee shirt outside. I've been coming down with a cold (DON'T WORRY MOM), as is usual for me in the summer time. Especially in hot weather. I think it's mostly because I run around in tank tops all the time, and never wear anything on my feet or dry my hair, and just act like a bit of a child of nature. I guess I'm practicall begging my immune system to go kaputt! Anyway, it turned about 30 degrees when we went to go to Schwetzingen. I had to give up on our tour half an hour in. It was in German by my Lehrerlin (female teacher), and I have getting a sun headache, and couldn't focus on what she was saying at any rate. I was also feeling pretty stomach sick from the lack of food intake at lunch. We all had to meet at the Uni Platz at 1:15 and we get of class at 12:45, and what with our daily meeting with Peter.
I ended buying this delicious orange juice popsicle and just spooking around the gardens by myself for an hour. I found a nice little bench, and as all these elderly people walked by, they all smiled at me, and I felt better. I was making notes on a few things:
While I was still with the tour, we passed by a temple to the Greek goddess Minerva. It was beautiful, with carvings of Medusa (at least, I think it was Medusa. I assume Medusa sounds the same in English und Deutsch) on the top of it. Also, as you enter the gardens, there are two foundations - the first one is far bigger than the second, and has three four statues of children and one of a man riding some animal in the center, all spouting water. The spray managed to reach us and cooled us for a brief moment.
I had a kind of awkward encounter with the owner of a small shop selling drinks. I wanted to buy a Coke because my skin was on fire (figuratively), and this shop had a small cooler for drinks outside. So I picked up one of them out of the cooler and then the owner came out and looked at me with a weird look, and said something to me in German. Adam, and one of my classmates, Philip, were with me, and no one seemed to understand what he said. I said 'Sorry?', and it took him a moment to realize we were English. Then he said 'Are you going to pay for that?' or something very similar along those lines. I was a little bit baffled that he was implying that we were stealing, but it was obvious that's what he thought. I managed to say 'Yes, but I have to actually pick it up first.' I'm not sure he understood me. Then he said something to the woman inside the counter about the three of us being English (I had a mind to tell them that I could understand and speak some German, but I held my tongue). It was the first time anything like that has happened to me, not only here, but ever. I mean, I thought the point of having a cooler outside was so that you lure customers in to pick one up, not so that you could angrily accuse them of stealing them. We've done that a load of times since being here, with fruit, especially.
At home, I work in a grocery store, in customer service, and I'm fairly sure that's like the third thing they teach you about customer service.
It makes me wonder if I look a lot like a homeless person who might steall stuff. I don't dress that badly. I hope.