Sunday was my relax day. Many of you back home have days like this every weekend. I woke up around 8:00 and putzed around my room for a while started reading my book at about 9:30 ...fell asleep around 10:00 for about hour. I made lunch, watched a couple of tv shows online (don´t worry, they were in German), read for another hour and a half or so, cleaned my room for the most part...the usual lazy day stuff. I did not end up leaving my room once all day. Now, I understand i´m in a different country trying to get the best of my experience...but everyone is entitled to a day of rest. I´m not making it a routine.
Monday morning I was up early (6:00) to go running. That early in the morning it´s pretty dark here. I made the decision to run later because I knew running all by myself in the dark woods (Englischer Garten) was probably not a good idea. Everyone here says that München is one of the most safe cities. I do feel very safe walking alone at night (a lot more so than Eau Claire even) and they don´t have very many problems here...however, I don´t want to take my chances.
I did have class on Monday (more orientation) where we learned about registering for classes and the types of classes we can take. The process is so difficult and confusing compared to Universities in America. Because the school itself is going through a huge reform, right now everything is half and half. Some of the classes we can register online for. Others we have to either go to the first class and talk with the professor, go the secretary of that department and sign a list for the class, or a lot of times get special permission from the professor. I sat down later that evening and figured out what classes I wanted to take. It is subject to change, but right now i´m looking at taking the following:
JYM- ALG-Advanced German Language (required)
JYM- Introduction to the study of German Literature
JYM- Independent study and possible research project with Renewable energy
LMU- IKK Grundkurs (which is a class in Intercultural Communications)
LMU- Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (a business class)
We are required to be registered for 15 credits for the semester..unfortunately i´m not exactly sure how many of these credits are going to transfer.
After class was out, I went running. I started running and there was a guy who was running about the same speed. After a little bit, he asked me if I wanted to run together with him. Surprisingly we were headed in the exact same direction. I guess we have the same loop that we like to run. After talking with him a little bit I learned that it is going to a Technical University not far from StuSta to be an engineer. We chatted most of the way and made plans to go running again sometime...probably after the marathon. As we were exchanging emails it started to rain. Afterwards I went up to my room, took a shower and listened to the rain hitting my window...it was very peaceful. I found out shortly thereafter that one of my friends, Clare, had rented a movie on Itunes and I went over and watched it with her. Free Willy 2!
About midnight for me, I had my last chance to talk to my dad before he gets here on Wednesday.
Today (Tuesday) is also nothing special. I went grocery shopping this morning and have a tour of the University at 1:00pm. Other than that, I don´t have much for plans. We´ll just have to see what there is tonight for me to do. Maybe a concert?!
