Der Beginn

~ "We'd like to send you to Heidelberg, if you are interested."


If I remember it correctly, I was standing in Dorothy Perkins with Louise.

I was in London, visiting Louise while skipping my lectures back home in Stockholm. She had just started her first semester at King's College and met me down town after her classes. It was raining and my paperbag (containing newly bought autobiographies of J.M.W.Turner and Klimt) broke, causing them to fall in a small puddle of rain.

We were just looking around the shop when my phone rang. The phone call was from Anja, one of our student co-ordinators from the English Department, and it concerned my Erasmus application. I was not expecting to be sent on an Erasmus because my personal statement was weak, as well as my interview (not to mention that I only applied for fun without being serious about it). Everything I wrote was last minute... correction; last second.
However, she called to let me know that I was accepted as a candidate for an Erasmus in Heidelberg, Germany.

So that is how I suddenly ended up on this path to an Erasmus adventure!
Unfortunately, I will be forced to study English II eventhough it is German that I really want to study. Yet I can see this Erasmus as "quite giving"; because I will be getting credits for English II, while I will be taking German language courses, and will be living in freaking Germany for half a year!

My German should be quite fluent by the end of August, no? I guess I will have to wait and see.