Birthday!

Yay it's my birthday! And as a present I got a pile of HOMEWORK! That's right...day 1, and I'm already spending hours doing homework. And the fun doesn't end there! I even get a QUIZ tomorrow! Anyways, lemme go over the past weekend before I get too ahead of myself.

Saturday I went for a bike ride, and I rode out to the airport and back which was about 10 kilometers, so something like 6 miles...not too bad! When I got back to the house I had some plum cake and then I needed a nap. I ate dinner with the family, and I met with a bunch of the PCIC kids in Neumarkt square so we could go to a club. The club ended up having a 9 Euro cover which is outrageous! Then 1 heineken cost me 4 euro! After a couple hours we decided it was too smokey in there (one tiny advantage the US has over Europe...no one really smokes anymore at home!) We ended up going to this pub that we had been to before called the Capitol in Zuplicherplatz. It's a really nice place with great prices and not alot of smoke so we decided that it would be our main hangout :-)

Sunday I kinda moped around all day and felt depressed that I'm 22 and not at home to celebrate with my friends and family and Bobby...But later 5 of us met again in Neumarkt to celebrate my birfday, so I felt a little better. We went to Rudolphplatz and had ice cream, then we went to a little pub down the road. It was an early night, since today was our first day of school!

When I woke up I was pretty excited to start class. I haven't worked at all in almost 2 weeks, and for me that's CRAZY. I got all dressed and ready and went up to have breakfast. My host mom is so sweet! She had a happy birthday placemat set up for me and a couple gifts! I got a bottle of Chardonnay, a scarf, some bodywash, and a Halloween candle! It was really nice.

When I got to school I was really excited...plus pretty much everyone wished me a happy birthday which was super nice. My first class ever I got TONS OF HOMEWORK. I have to do like 4 sections of stuff, plus I have to memorize 37 words. I'm not a happy camper, but what can I do? I've got the vocab on notecards and I'm working on my 2nd section...Plus I still have stuff for this class to do that's due Wednesday, AND I have to do stuff for the other class I had today. Over my head already...thank god I'm not working on top of this, I'd be hyperventilating!

After my first class 11 of us went out for my Birthday Doener, and it was SEHR LECKER! Then we went to class 2, and then home. I was brutally exhausted. I had some coffee with my host family, then I took a nap, and started my endless homework. Dinner was good, and my host mom made us chocolate cupcakes and I got a birthday candle! They sang happy birthday to me in English and it was really nice!

Anyways I gotta go back to the homework!

Jess