week one

I got lucky enough to get out of New Orleans before the airport closed. As did my luggage (somehow). That was quite surreal, waking up at 4 for a flight at 12. Then having heavy traffic on the way down Airline Highway. Surreal indeed.

so yea, i made it over here. Got into my flat, has that very 60s blockish feel. Everything from the ancient stove top right down to the mustard yellow curtains give it that ultra-student-housing vibe. but I really didn't expect less. I would post pictures but a) there isn't much to see and b) that would easily tick my over my 3000 MB quota for this period between now and this time tomorrow. bummer. Lucky enough, I have my own room.

my 3 flatmates are from Japan, Vietnam and the Czech Republic. The Japanese girl has a separate entrance to the landing and doesn't come out of her room much (thus I don't know her name). The other two seem nice enough though Leinka is very clean oriented and very pissed at the other two for not cleaning the kitchen which I have yet to use. I have a tendency to end up in roommate situations like this. meh.

first week was orentation. I think it went as well as a bunch of lectures can go. Except the first day during the coordinator of the international student exchange was giving his speill me running out of the huge lecture hall sick. Yea, smooth jetlag. After that most all was fine.

Signed the lease for this apartment, got my bank information set up, found myself a buspass, fixed my power convertor, settled in some and whatnot.

went shopping with on of the other american dudes i met. sure it wasn't as fun as this but i made it out for 15 euros which isn't too damn bad. the grocery stores make walmart look small. there's prisma (whose logo is the tri-force) and K market (the more k's in the name the better, thus kkk market is best)

now I get to try and figure out course registration... yay.