middle schoolers

Middle schoolers in Germany? Just as annoying as middle schoolers in the US. You can't understand what they're saying here, which can be either good or bad.

Things have been relatively boring here, since classes have started. German should be good--we took a field trip to several different grocery stores today so we could learn German words for food (and learn that baking soda doesn't exist here). The seminar will be enjoyable, if not entirely worthwhile. Yesterday we talked about nothing for an hour and THEN got started, and today it was only 20 minutes. Maybe it'll keep getting better.

Last night we tried to find our way to a bar near one of the other dorms. After an hour of wandering the streets of Freiburg, we made our way back to the tram stop and went home. It was quite disappointing. But an adventure nonetheless. The directions that Dave tried to give us included "go through the tunnel" and "when you see the mountain, turn left." Needless to say, they weren't very helpful.

We're going to Nice for spring break (which is Easter Weekend)! We're flying from Basel to Nice on Friday and returning on Monday evening. Now we have to look at hostels and that business. There are five of us going so far, me, Daria, Matt, Andrew, and Rachel. (I don't know that I had any pictures of her.) If we can find a sixth person it will make it much easier to book a hostel room. We'll see.