Das Erasmusleben macht mich müde

Also! (My favourite word and I think most of us know why...)

I have been sleeping these past days - like literaly sleeping between classes or the whole day long. I have absolutely no clue why I am so tired, and homeworks that are simple and take about five minutes to complete; are making me want to vomit. However, I did manage to get all of my French homework done today and I am through half of my "Language Acquistion"-homework so no problems there. All that is left is the translation paper.

Something that continuosly shocks me is the placements by our professors at Max-Weber-Haus. For the preperatory language class, I was signed up for the Mittelstufe II class (the supposed equivalent to B2) when I clearly stated that I was a Mittelstufe I (B1) student. Then for the evening courses I expected to stay in Mittelstufe II because I do not even know my Konjunktiv II and my vocabulary is so embarassingly petit. Little did I expect, that the lady (with whom I fixed my enrolement) blurted out Oberstufe (should be the equivalent to C1). I was pretty gobsmacked and thought "You're joking." She wasn't and she also persuaded me to stay in that Stufe, so now I seriously need to grab Konjunktiv II by the horns ...or is it ears? Oh well, people should be able to get my point.

Since I anyway am on the topic of courses; my Erasmus coordinator in Stockholm seems to find it okay to e-mail me after more than a week when my purpose of e-mailing her was quite important! Two e-mails and a response after more than a week. I might be a bit screwed because I don't have a literature course. Seriously though, none of the literature courses seemed to be exciting - more like boring or a "been there, done that" type of course. I am hoping though, that this one course will accept me. It is called "Magical Realism", which sounds really gay but the literature list was quite interesting; two books by Jeanette Winterson. I have already read one of her books and it was pretty good. So fingers crossed that I can still be accepted to the course!

I have missed travelling a lot and I am wondering where to go over Easter. I would like to visit Portugal, e.g. Lissabon, or maybe even Budapest. I could also go to Ireland or Scotland, but it depends on my finances and who I can convince to come along. Some friends of mine, aka. Hamad, Jenn and Mariana (now you are finally mentioned!), have decided to travel to Belgium and Luxembourg in one round which I really would like. So that will happen some time after I have returned back from Stockholm.


Hmm, I am starting to get some serious "resfeber"...