Pizza, ketchup, and water from a fire hydrant

Today was the first day of classes, so morning started entirely too early. Tiffany and I barely had time to choke down our frosted flakes before rushing off to catch the bus. Since we weren’t sure how long it’d take to find our classrooms, we got on an early one. As we arrived at the bus-stop, we realized everyone else had decided on the same thing.
Class was in German. All German. Our professor, who wants to be called Natalie, is a nice person, but since she spoke only in German we had a little trouble keeping up. As Tiffany put it, “it was like trying to get a drink of water out of an open fire-hydrant.” Only Tiffany, Liz, and I are in that class, so there were quite a few awkward silences. You can’t hide behind the overachievers when there’s that few of you. Of course, with Tiff there, I’ll try.
After class Tiff and I went to the nearby mall, which looks large on the outside and even bigger on the inside. It has a train station and a movie theatre attached, which takes up a good chunk of that size. The Kaufmart takes up the rest. Well, a lot of the rest. The Kaufmart is like a super-K, but with better groceries and more random things. It’s entire ground floor (that’s right…two floors) is food, and some of the first (second… whatever…) floor is as well. Then there’s toys, clothes, electronics, and just general all-around junk.
Like I said: Super K.
There’s a few other nice stores in the mall. Tiff found nail-polish at a great, big makeup store and I found Ethernet cords at the big electronics store. I didn’t buy them because they’re cheaper on my side of town.
Tiff’s going clothes shopping tomorrow. She found 2 euro shirt sales that have her all thrilled. Which, since that translates to about $2.50, I guess it’s not bad.
We ate in the Mensa (campus cafeteria) today. Tiff and I split a huge plate of some breakfast-scramble-thing. It was made with potatoes, good spices, ham (I think), Sausage (or some kind of Brat, the distinction there is still fuzzy to me), and lots of salt. We had rice and mineral water with it. It was enough carbs to last the day, then some.
German 105 (my culture class) was cancelled, so we hoofed it back to this side of town. The sky opened up not long after we’d gotten back to the dorm, and I was exhausted anyway, so we waited it out before going grocery shopping.
Dinner tonight was more pizza. This time it was at least Italian style pizza, and good stuff at that. We bought fresh bread (my roommate was scandalized by our purchase of bagged sandwich bread), really good strawberry jam, and French Fries (tiff’s thing… it was good) to go with the Pizza.
They have no ketchup here.
But dinner was still good.
Tomorrow I’m cooking Brats up in some seasoning and tossing them with brown butter noodles and a little basil. It should be good. If not, we have more sandwich meat, and I’ll eat the not-so-good-brat anyway. No sense in it going to waste, after all.
Well, lets see. What else? I have Dreamweaver installed, and am putting together an index page of all my pics. I talked to dad and I might have my imageserver up this weekend. If not, I’m going to have to rely on either Jared generously burning things off his server (which I don’t really have enough space on to be doing that) or dad burning it off the email (which would get to be a pain rather quickly since G-Mail doesn’t think you should have to be able to delete messages).
Hopefully we’ll have an imageserver up and not have to try this mess.
I’ll share this all with you as soon as I get internet access. It’s estimated for next week, but I may go nuts and run for the ‘net café before then.