June Begins

Day 7, June 1st

Today was a pretty fun day. It was some sort of holiday so we had no classes. Anyway, we decided to go out to mini golf and explore some more beer gardens, which was certainly pretty fun.

Thankfully, my monthlong RailPass activated today so I no longer have to waste 5 euros a day riding the stupid tram to school. Also, I learned that it's a good idea to ALWAYS have a ticket on you... not having a ticket led to bad consequences today.

Apparently 2 people in our group thought it would be fine to play the laws of statistical probabilities and not buy a tram ticket. About 1 in every 50 tram rides (from what I'm told), a ticket-checker walks around the tram and fines people 40 euros if they don't have a valid ticket.

Well, wouldn't you know it, today was the day the ticket-checker came and they both got fined. Whew! Thankfully, I have a ticket so all is well in the world.

In the evening I went to play Go again, which was quite fun. I walked 4 km to get there, which was certainly an interesting journey. Tomorrow I'm going to ask how to take the tram to get there next time now that I have a month long ticket, since it took me about 45 minutes to walk there. Had quite a bit of fun, and I hope to continue such fun throughout my stay here in Germany.

I'm slowly learning German, believe it or not. Immersion really does work, apparently. I can now say "Please", "Hello", "Goodbye", "Where Is?", "Beer", "Welcome", "How Much", and count from 1 to 12. Additionally, I'm finally learning how to pronounce this language...let me tell you, not easy.

They also call English a Germanic language for a reason, there are a LOT of similarities between English and German. While verbs are generally pretty different, nouns and pronouns are surprisingly similar. I'm glad I chose Germany for my stay. Anyway, got class SO EARLY tomorrow morning (8:30 AM). Stay tuned next time, ya'll!!