Here is a picture of my lovely roommates at the restaurant/bar close to our dorm. It’s always crowded there, but it’s a nice warm atmosphere. Silvia, has introduced us to the group of Italian girls here. See below.
left to right: Laura, Chris, me, Silvia, Giulia
me, Simona, Romina and Undine (she’s Romina’s German roommate)
Silvia has already invited Chris and I to Italy for Christmas. We are thinking that we just might have to take her up on that. The other option is to stay with Chris’ friend Armin’s family. They live in the US now, but still have a house outside of Hamburg. Maybe we can make both work : )
Things I’ve been doing lately:
playing SingStar with the roomies (Joanna’s got like 10 different discs for it), baking this lactose-free cake for my lactose-intolerant roommates, going to Oblomov (rest./bar), worrying about getting into classes, trying to make my room feel more like home, scrubbing the lime deposits off the floor of the closet-shower, going to the FiZ (rec center), getting and battling a cold and reading the books I got at the library about Theodor Storm.
I got myself into two classes finally. One is a lecture about the literary period of poetic realism, of which Th. Storm is a part, and one is a seminar about literary works from antiquity that have been constantly referred to throughout history (ie Don Quixote, Aeneas, etc). Should be ok. I tried to get into some other seminars, but by the time I got this pin number thing they were all full. I begged, but to no avail. Anyway, I’m only taking two classes because I will also be doing my own research for my thesis.
My mom asked me for pictures of the wintry side of the weather we’ve been having. I just took these from the walkway of the dorm about 15 minutes ago.
Baltic is Better 