Movin' on

Well, I have moved into the Student dorms at Universitaet Stuttgart and am enjoying the dorm life and its similarity to the dorms in the states. The only thing is that rather than sharing an area with 2 or 3 other people, I have a room to myself, but share the kitchen and bathroom with the floor which is around 9 or 10 people. Its pretty enjoyable. The Intensive German course started March 4th after a placement test earlier in the week. The class is all in German which can be difficult and annoying at times, but at least it helps to improve my German. I have the class every day at 8 in the morning and it lasts until 1:15 pm with two breaks so the days can get pretty exhausting and I occasionally have to make use of the afternoon nap to fully recover.

Since the weather has been improving quite a bit (in the 50s) we've been able to get a few games of soccer going. The more friends we make with the other people in the Intensive course, the more people we get to play. It's been a while since I've played, but my legs have started to get used to the running again. I think I may need new shoes though because I'm kind of wearing out the only tennis shoes I brought. I have also been forced to cook for myself so that has been an adventure, but I have managed to survive and hopefully will be able to discover how to make more things. Nothing really else has happened of great significance. It's just like being in college, day after day of doing conceivably the same thing.